THERE IS NO BETTER TIME TO START A CAREER WITHIN RESIDENTIAL CHILDCARE THAN NOW!

Would you like secure employment where you can progress your career?
If you would like to build a career that gives you genuine sense of achievement and fulfilment knowing that you can have a positive impact on the young people we support, then look no further and apply today!
Children’s Home Lymington is recruiting for Waking Night Support Workers now! We are looking for enthusiastic, caring and passionate people to become an integral part of our support team. In this role, you will support our young people and you will be required to be alert and observant at all times. In addition to regular checks on the children and young people you will be assigned additional tasks.

A LEVEL 3 QUALIFICATION IN CHILDREN’S RESIDENTIAL AND CHILDCARE IS ESSENTIAL, AS WELL AS PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE WITHIN A RESIDENTIAL CHILDCARE SETTING ALONG WITH THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERISTICS:

• Resilience We support some of the most vulnerable children in society who have varying degrees of emotional behavioural difficulties, autism, ADHD and associated difficulties so there will be times where your resilience is challenged.

• Communication Communicating with our young people is vital to understand their needs. Good teamwork and communication play a key part in ensuring important information is relayed to other staff.

• Organisation As well as supervising the staff team, you’ll need to be confident and organised in updating care plans and reporting information that will be relevant to the care of our young people.
• Caring Our young people require the best care we can offer. If you are a naturally caring and compassionate person, this is the role for you.
• Attentive No young person is the same so being attentive to understand them and identify areas where we can support is important.

Above all, we provide a supportive and collaborative working environment where you can flourish in your career and feel incredibly rewarded by helping those who need it most.

Please refer the Job description for details