Park Blue Homes has an exciting opportunity for a Children’s Home Residential Support Worker to join our company in the Swindon area.
This is a great 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 5 bed residential home specialising in providing care for young people with learning difficulties and emotional and behavioural difficulties. The home is based in Blunsdon, Swindon. The successful person will need to be able to commute easily to this location.
Salary: £27,846.00 per annum, plus pension, and other benefits. 32 shifts annual leave plus 3 paid wellness shifts per year. There are other contracts available including 21, 28- and 35-hour weeks, these are paid pro rata.
Paid sleep ins are £63/night which included at one per week gives an average support worker salary of £31,122 not including overtime.
Shift patterns are 07.30-21.30 (two shifts). Six shifts per week, 42 hours. The role will include working alternate weekends. The average week is three long days and four days off. This can be very flexible and support workers can choose to work morning or afternoon shifts only or a combination of both half and full days.

· To be involved with the implementation 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 lead by example and be a role model for the team members and children.

· To promote effective team working. To understand the impacts of vicarious trauma and how this can affect the internal workings of the team to be active within 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 and engage in reflective supervision sessions to 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.