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Residential Support Working- Learning Disabilities
At Horizon Care and Education, we provide high quality care to the children living in our homes. We strive to provide a safe and loving environment for our children to flourish and thrive.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an experienced team in a therapeutically informed home for children with complex social and emotional needs/Learning Disabilities.
Our unique SHINE (Supporting Healing In Nurturing Environments) Therapeutic Model will allow you to develop your practice using PACE and psychologically-informed trauma-responsive approaches to care.
About the role:
- Helping young people continue with hobbies, social activities, and friendships, and learn new skills.
- Providing support with morning routines such as getting ready for school and making sure they have a good breakfast.
- Preparing evening meals and ensuring the young person has a safe space to relax and unwind within the home.
- You will need to be open to working in a reflective manner and deliver relationship-based, person centred care as part of a small team. This will involve a combination of day, evening, night, weekend, and bank holiday working.
- You will work in partnership with parents and other professionals and so you will need a good range of communication skills.
Skills/Experience:
- You must have the appropriate skills and experience to perform and work within an environment that can at times require using your own initiative.
- You must hold or be already working towards or be willing to undertake and complete within 2 years of starting work at the home the Level 3 Diploma for Residential Childcare (England). OR you should hold an equivalent qualification such as The NVQ 3 caring for children & young people and be prepared to complete any additional work to meet the required level.
In return you will receive regular supervision and a commitment from us to your long term personal and professional development. This includes progression into management and senior leadership roles.
Benefits:
- Real Living Wage employer
- Competitive pay rates
- Christmas bonus
- Blue Light Card
- Colleague referral scheme with cash rewards - earn up to 2500 per referral! *
- Financial wellbeing service
- Life Assurance
- Option to buy and sell up to 5 days annual leave
- Tastecard - spectacular savings on dining, pizza, cinema tickets, supermarkets, and UK attractions
- Opportunity to progress in your career through our Education Academy, and ongoing training and professional development
- Comprehensive and tailored induction programme including face-to-face training, online modules, shadowing, and local induction period
- Face-to-face therapeutic training and support for all colleagues via our SHINE programme
- Access to a wide range of free online courses for all colleagues on a variety of topics
- Employee assistance programme - free, confidential support
- Community and wellbeing - Your wellbeing matters to us, and we are committed to ensuring you get all the support you need to feel good about what you do. We're in this together
- Supportive management and senior leaders
- High quality CPD opportunities
- Free eye check
If you're passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people and enabling them to shape their own future, then we want you to be part of our team.
A full UK driving licence is needed for this role
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