Waking Night Support Worker – Children’s Homes

Waking Night Support Worker – Children’s Homes

£20,346 - £22,382 per annum

Huthwaite, Nottinghamshire

Homes2Inspire Ltd are proud to be a part of Shaw Trust Group, a charity helping to transform the lives of children and young people and adults across the UK.

Homes2inspire Limited are excited to be working with Nottinghamshire County Council to open a new Children’s Home in Huthwaite to support children and young people from the Nottinghamshire area.

Homes2inspire are a rapidly growing organisation with 30 registered Children’s Homes and 2 Semi-Independent Provisions within the UK. The staff teams strive for excellence to ensure the Children and young people receive the quality of care they deserve and are ready for the next stages in their lives.  

Homes2inspire will be working in close partnership with the local authority to provide a safe and nurturing environment for a young person requiring a unique and person-centred approach to their care.  

You will be required to provide a safe and secure environment to ensure the safety and wellbeing of the young person during the night state. You will prioritise and self-manage your workload, due to the independent nature of the role, to ensure completion of tasks and the readiness of the home for the next day.

Your duties and responsibilities will include defining structures and boundaries of behaviour to the young person, acting as a positive role model, ensuring house paperwork is completed accurately and in a timely manner, ensuring the home is clean and in line with health and safety requirements and assisting Support Workers with tasks as required.

Essential Criteria

• Ability to lone work whilst maintaining motivation for the role.
• Eagerness to develop professionally and obtain QCF Level 3 in Residential Childcare.
• The ability to work in an ever changing and fast paced environment.
• Ability to act as a positive and inspirational role model for the young person and team around you.

Previous experience is ideal however not essential for the role. We would welcome candidates with previous lived-in experience to apply for the role, and you will be guaranteed an interview.

What we can offer you?

• Competitive salary.
• Career progression within a rapidly growing organisation.
• Ongoing support, guidance and mentoring from Management team.
• Shift pattern of 4 shifts on and 4 shifts off allowing you to be well rested before returning to work.
• 28 days annual leave inclusive of Bank Holidays which increases with length of service.
• Ability to purchase additional annual leave.
• Other benefits to be discussed during interview.

For further information please visit our website homes2inspire.co.uk/careers or contact Ella Gamble on 07876 651107.

Please Note all successful candidates will be subject to a vetting process, inclusive of a DBS check, Right to Work checks and references will be obtained.