Childrens Residential Worker - Colwyn Bay
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- Colwyn Bay, Conwy
- £16.73-19.41 per hour
- Temporary
- Full-time
- Direct work with Looked After Children & Young People with learning disabilities and /or complex emotional and behavioural needs, ensuring they receive the appropriate levels and standards of care and support that responds to their individual needs
- Understand each individual care plan and placement plan and your role within it
- Undertake sleep-in duties / waking night duties
- Observe, recognise, record, and interpret boundaries and set limits in relation to children and young people being accommodated
- Respond to challenging behaviour and understanding the cause and reason of the behaviour
- Contribute to the implementation of individual casework and group work with children and young people and their families that fully involves them and reflects their strengths, needs and desired outcomes
- Create a homely, warm, kind, friendly, environment
- Report to your line manager, or other appropriate person, any malpractices or evidence which may suggest it
- Develop close professional links with other staff of the department and the staff of other agencies and organisations
- Develop strong, trusting working relationships
- Maintain records of work done at all times, providing verbal and written reports when required
- Participate in staff supervision, performance review, training and development programmes arranged by the department
- Attend meetings, reviews and conferences where necessary
- Driving Licence, access to a vehicle and business insurance
- Must be registered with Social Care Wales
- Relevant level 3 qualification (A Level/ HNCB NVQ)
- Experience of working effectively with young people who present challenging behaviours, to downplay risks and dangers through minimalist and casual language and actions
- Demonstrate an understanding of residential child care practices and the signs/symptoms of abuse
- Able to undertake activities involving manual handling and/or restrictive physical intervention
- Ability to communicate both verbally and in writing in English and Welsh
- Enhanced Child DBS registered to the update service