Waking Nights Support Worker - Gloucester, United Kingdom - Ruskin Mill Trust

Ruskin Mill Trust

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Gloucester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

Ruskin Mill College provides innovative and experiential education and training for young people marginalised by disadvantage, exclusion or special learning needs.

Inspired by Rudolf Steiner, William Morris and John Ruskin, the college actively promotes, through craftsmanship and entrepreneurship, the traditional economic activities of the Cotswolds.

Residential Support Worker (Waking Nights)

40 hours per week, 52 weeks per year
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In this role you will be part of a team of Residential Support Workers who support a number of residents with learning difficulties in a home setting in the Nailsworth area.

You will have responsibility for promoting and ensuring the safety, care, wellbeing, learning and development of the residents, to enable them to grow in confidence and social and practical skills.

You will be working on a shift basis working evenings and weekends.

In order to be successful in this role you will:

Ideally you will be an experienced support worker who has worked in a residential setting and worked with young people with challenging behaviours
You may be required to provide personal care, it would be beneficial for you to have experience of this as well as medication handling experience
To provide supervision and support of service users in their residential settings with a range of domestic activities such as cooking, shopping, cleaning and laundry
To provide supervision of the service users at night, including behaviour management, medication handling and carrying out household tasks when residents are sleeping
You will have excellent communication skills, as well as experience of report writing and record keeping

Working at Ruskin Mill College is rewarding and in return, we offer competitive salaries, with progression in pay once qualified and a private pension scheme

In addition, staff receive:

A comprehensive induction, an excellent personal development plan and extensive training to include Autism, Attachment, Emotional Resilience, Holistic Support, _Practical Skills Therapeutic Education_ (PSTE), and CPI Safety intervention training
33 days annual leave (including bank holidays) increasing with your length of service

Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent

Salary:
£20,934.00-£27,069.00 per year

Benefits: