Park Blue Homes has an exciting opportunity for a Children’s Home Senior Support Worker to join our company in the Swindon area.
This is a unique and rare opportunity to join a progressive and trauma informed group of Children’s Homes with a focus on upholding the values and guidelines of a Therapeutic Community. The home is a 3 bed residential home specialising in providing care for young people with learning difficulties and emotional and behavioural difficulties.
Salary: £32,000 per annum depending on experience, plus bonuses, pension, and other benefits. 28 days annual leave plus 3 paid wellness shifts per year.
Paid sleep ins are £63/night which included at one per week gives an average senior support worker salary of £35,000.
Shift patterns will be on-shift working 07.30-21.30 (two shifts). Six shifts per week, 42 hours. We are able to be flexible with shift patterns.

· To be responsible for the assisting the management team in the management, co-ordination, and development of a range of quality therapeutic services for young people that live at our Home.
· Ensuring that all children and staff working within the Home are effectively safeguarded at all times, be proactive and able to recognise times when we may need to protect people around us.
· To ensure the Home exceeds all standards as stated in the Children’s Home Regulations 2015 and all other legislation relevant to the therapeutic care of our children.
· To promote relationships as central to the working practice of our Homes. Taking an empathetic and engaging approach to working in partnership with young people, their families, professionals, and other agencies, in order to meet the needs of young people.
· To provide effective, empathetic, and dynamic leadership and to coordinate the staff team ensuring that the companies policies and procedures are effectively implemented. To lead by example and be a role model for the team members and children.

· To promote team development and effective team working. To understand the impacts of vicarious trauma and how this can affect the internal workings of the team. To promote the companies staff wellbeing programme.

• Participating in a wide range of innovative and exciting recreational events held within the home and wider community.
• Assisting with practical matters relating to care (cooking, washing, cleaning etc.)
• Meeting the physical, emotional, behavioural and cultural needs of the young people in our care.

· To be involved in reflective practise ensuring that team members and those around the child are reflective of their work encouraging them to integrate and uphold our therapeutic thinking.
· To ensure the paperwork in the Home is accurate, reflective and evidences the progress the children make within the Home
· To ensure that all Health and Safety Regulations, including fire, medication, vehicles and all premises are followed in accordance with Park Blue Homes’s policies, procedures and practices.
· To ensure that all finance budgets, control, administration and records comply with Park Blue Ltd’s procedures.
· To promote and implement the company’s policies and procedures and ensuring that they are attachment based and trauma informed.