Youth Worker - Oldham, United Kingdom - Fulbridge Social Care

Fulbridge Social Care
Fulbridge Social Care
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Oldham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Are you proactive, caring, and engaging? Are you wanting a new, rewarding role?_


We have a fantastic new opportunity in which you would be joining a team supporting children aged 11-18 with complex needs, learning disabilities and challenging behaviours.

The team adopts Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) which is a person-centred approach to supporting young people with a learning disability.


You will work directly with the young people to provide care and support in order to meet their needs and develop their independence and life skills, implementing evidence-based interventions and PBS plans to reduce behaviours of concern and improve quality of life.


Behaviour is often a way of communicating, so one of your most successful skills will be the ability to engage, listen and communicate with people successfully in a variety of ways.

Importantly you'll understand the complexity of working with challenging behaviours and understand the need to be highly flexible, adaptable, and resilient, which in return will unlock an incredibly rewarding career for you.


Main duties:


  • You would be using a personcentred approach to provide care and support, meeting their needs and developing their independence.
  • Ability to listen and engage with the young people.
  • Understand and appropriately deal with challenging behaviours.
  • To work well in a team, prioritising the needs of the children.
  • Establish positive relationship with the young people.
  • Be able to commit to a 1 on 2 off shift pattern.
  • Highly flexible, adaptable, and resilient.
  • Personal Care will be a requirement.
  • Able to commit to commit to sleep ins.

Benefits:

- £40 per sleep in.

  • Bottom line salary can be up to £25,000 if maximum number of sleepins included.
  • Career development and progression.
  • Opportunity for further training and qualifications.
  • Company benefits.

What you will need:


  • Experience on a professional or personal basis working alongside challenging behaviours, mental health or learning difficulties.
  • Hold a NVQ level 3 or equivalent in children's residential care. (Desirable).
  • Must hold a full UK driving licence.
  • Must be over 21 years of age due to national minimum standards.

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Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent


Salary:
From £24,000.00 per year


Benefits:


  • Casual dress
  • Company car
  • Discounted or free food
  • Free or subsidised travel
  • Free parking
  • Onsite parking

Schedule:

  • Monday to Friday
  • Weekend availability

Supplemental pay types:

  • Bonus scheme

Work Location:
One location
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