Support Worker - Stroud, United Kingdom - Halcyon

Halcyon

Verified Company

Stroud, United Kingdom

1 week ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Halcyon Health & Social Care are recruiting for a fantastic opportunity for a Children / Young Person's Support Worker to work Monday to Friday within a residential SEN college for students aged years old.

The college is set within a beautiful 140-acre site in Stroud and boasts an outstanding reputation for providing a holistic and integrated approach, combining practical skills and therapy-based support to help vulnerable young people to develop to theirfull potential.

The students take an active role in caring for a range of livestock including a trout farm, sheep, chickens, pigs, bees, and donkeys.

There are managed woodlands and farmlands that students work to produce crops for the college canteens and for animal feed.

In addition to these skills, the college timetable provides a range of woodwork shops, an iron age forge, pottery classes, performing arts, speech and language therapies, literacy and numeracy, employability skills and the opportunity to gain work experiencein the local community.

We are looking for like-minded, dedicated, caring individuals that share the same passion and vision for helping vulnerable young people to develop independent living skills and reach their full potential.

We also offer our support workers exciting things like:

£12.35+ an hour
Weekly pay
Full access to Perkbox, giving you thousands of high street discounts, including supermarket shops, gym memberships, eating out and takeaways, days out and holidays plus online wellbeing workshops and mental health support.
Free DBS
Free Training
Employee of the month prizes

We are committed to ongoing development and support and provide free specialist training courses to develop and support career progression.

What we are looking for in our Support Workers:

Experience of working with young people in a residential care setting.
Able to engage appropriately with young people and develop rapport.
Able to recognise conflict and challenging behaviour and situations with young people.
Ability to understand and work effectively with complex cases.
Please note that it is essential to have access to transport for this role as the position involves occasionally travelling to various locations to take young people to appointments, training school etc.

- "I've been working with Halcyon for 6 weeks now and have found them understanding, flexible and a pleasure to work for. They have a great range of shifts which you can book in easily via their app, they pay on time every week, and are always availableif you need support... I work for them as overtime alongside my main job and they have been incredibly understanding regarding my availability and have never pressured me to pick up more shifts than I ask for" Melissa L_
- "Personally, I have enjoyed working for Halcyon, being my first experience in an agency and in different settings of care I feel I have been well informed of jobs beforehand, I have had many opportunities to seek advice and support and often feel appreciatedfor my work. Thank you, Halcyon, for making particularly difficult days a little easier" Megan D_