Children's Residential Support Worker

at  Hexagon Care Services Ltd

Job title: Residential Support Worker  
Location: Willow Cottage Children’s Home - Hensall
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Salary: £24,850 - £28,475
Earnings: £30,025 - £33,650 (based on 10 sleep ins per month)
Hours: 40.5 per week plus sleep ins (paid at £45 per night)
Annual Leave Entitlement: 243 hours
Shift Pattern: 1 shift on, 2 shifts off (Shifts start at 10am, finishing at 11pm followed by a sleep in after every shift. Shifts will resume at 7:30am finishing at 10:00am)
Hexagon Care Services are the largest privately owned provider of residential childcare in the country. We have over 50 Children’s Homes, 5 Crisis Intervention services, and 14 schools across England. 
We are seeking to appoint Residential Support Workers for our children’s homes. This is a great opportunity for someone to join a highly established and successful children’s home, learning from experienced, skilled team of likeminded individuals who share a passion for giving the children in care the very best support.     
No two days will be the same supporting young people to achieve their very best. You will have a varied array of tasks whilst on shift; everything from cooking & cleaning, taking part in activities and games, taking Young People out to appointments/meetings, managing challenging behaviours, or even sitting and watching TV with the Young People.     
We aim to create a positive, relaxed home environment where the young people feel safe, supported & listened to. You will be inducted by our industry leading, award winning learning & development team, and guided in your role by more senior staff members, including psychologists/therapy team to establish appropriate boundaries, manage behaviours effectively and nurture the young people in your care towards positive futures.     
Experience of working in a residential home for children is advantageous, although not essential. Please bear in mind this role is shift work and requires you to work sleep ins at the home at the end of a shift before handing over to another staff team the following day, the rolling rota covers evenings, weekends, bank holidays/public holidays shared amongst the staff team.    
If you want to find out more about what a typical day looks like working in a Hexagon Children’s home, please watch our video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahn2f6aKC5g      
As a Residential Support Worker you will have the following: 
· The desire and passion to safeguard, motivate, and inspire the young people in your care 
· Lead, demonstrate, and share best practice to other practitioners in your home. In addition to working closely alongside Psychologists and our specialist therapeutic services team. 
· The characteristics and personality to handle challenging behaviour effectively and professionally 
· Shift work including weekends, evenings & sleep in duties 
What you’ll get in return as a Residential Support Worker at Hexagon Care Services      
· Life Assurance (4x salary)  
· Free, on-site parking  
· Electric vehicle scheme  
· Store discounts/perks   
· Free access to Employee Assistance Programme  
· Free access to GP Hero  
· Additional payments for no sickness  
· Blue Light Card (instead of ‘store discounts/PERKS)  
· Long Service Payments  
· Cycle to Work Scheme  
· Ofsted outstanding bonus payment  
· Pension  
Please note Hexagon Care Services does not hold a sponsorship licence and as such we are unable to support any candidates requiring sponsorship. All hiring managers at Hexagon Care Services are trained by safer recruitment consortium accredited trainers, and all positions in regulated activity with children will be required to undergo safer recruitment and onboarding checks prior to commencement.    
Hexagon Care Services reserve the right to close this advert at any time. Please apply at your earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment. Should you have any questions about this role, please do not hesitate to email our recruitment manager Zander via zander.loftus@hexagoncare.com or WhatsApp 07866 889204   

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