Senior Support Worker - King's Lynn, United Kingdom - Break Charity

Break Charity

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King's Lynn, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Senior Support Worker

Salary:
£23,478 - £24,410 per annum, depending on experience and qualifications

Location:
King's Lynn, Norfolk

Contract:
Permanent

About us:

Here at Break we love delivering amazing services for children and young people.

Our team are committed to providing care, support, and a brighter future for the children, young people, and families who need us, for as long as they need us.

About the role:

The main purpose of the role is to assist the management team to support, direct and utilise staff and resources on-shift in order to ensure that the home achieves its strategic aims.

This role plays a key part in maintaining relationships not only with the child or young person but also; parents or other family members, social workers, school staff and other relevant professionals.

The home strives to ensure that the highest quality of care is provided for our children and young people.

This means our staff are essential in ensuring their wellbeing needs are fully met, they feel safe and secure with us but also included in some of the decision making within the home.

We are looking for a Senior Support Worker who is:

Confident and capable in developing the team around them, this will include some line management responsibilities
Who has the emotional intelligence and resilience to manage challenging situations that might arise within the home
Strives to achieve the highest level of care for the team and the young people they care for
Experienced in working with children and young people, ideally in a residential setting
What can we offer?

We are proud of the fact that we are a supportive employer who rewards you for your hard work and involvement in our life-changing charity.

There are multiple benefits of this role, such as:

A competitive holiday allowance
Enhanced pension contributions of employer 5% and employee 3%
Discounted Will writing service
Employee access to Techscheme, allowing you to buy tech more easily
Support for improving your financial wellbeing
A variety of salary sacrifice schemes, including pension
Group Life Assurance
Enhanced sick pay
Support for your mental health via our employee counselling service
Cycle to Work Scheme
Access to a wealth of development opportunities

Full details regarding the role can be found under the documents sections at the top of the advert.

Closing Date:

The role may close at short notice and without prior warning.

For more information on this job opportunity, please contact the People Resources Team via our website.

Break operate services for vulnerable children and families and we need to ensure that we take steps to protect both them and our staff teams from the transmission of the Covid 19 virus. It is therefore a requirement for all staff unless they provide evidence of an appropriate medical exemption to be able to meet at least two of the following three requirements 1) Maintain a full vaccination status (including any recommend booster injections) 2) Undertake LFT / PCR or other approved Covid tests as required 3) Wear PPE including e.g. face masks when requested.

To comply with the Immigration Asylum & Nationality Act 2006 and additional amendments, and UK Visa's and Immigration (UKVI) requirements, all prospective employees will be asked to supply evidence of eligibility to work in the UK.

We will ask to see and take a copy of an appropriate official document as set out in the UKVI guidelines.

Do not send anything now, further information will be sent to you should you be invited to interview.

This job is also known as: Support Worker, Youth Worker, Care Worker, Children Support Worker, Children