Residential Support Worker

Job Description

Residential Support Worker

Salary: £26,800 per annum plus an opportunity to earn an additional £4,200 per annum based on an average of 7 sleep-ins per month

Location: Wrexham

Contract/Hours: Permanent, Full-time – 37 hours per week (on a rota basis, working days, evenings, waking nights and weekends)

Benefits:

• 29 days annual leave plus bank holidays and options to buy or sell leave
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
• Pension with up to 7% matched employer contribution with included life assurance cover
• Staff discounts and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts
• We are a Real Living Wage accredited employer
  
  

We are one of the largest children’s charities in the UK and have been making a difference to the lives of the UK’s vulnerable children for over 150 years.

Find out more about Action for Children here: Action for Children and on X, LinkedIn, Facebook or YouTube to get to know us better.

About The Service

Tan y Dre Residential Services is a 4-bed therapeutic residential home, where we provide medium to long term care for young people aged 9-18 years old with complex needs and challenging behaviours. The aim of this role is to support them with their transition in to safe and happy adults.

Our children receive a bespoke intervention tailored to their individual needs supported by a team of staff who are fully committed to understating and meeting the child's needs and reduces the identified barriers.

Our therapeutic model will provide an environment where they will receive positive experiences of reliable, consistent parenting through providing specific and structured care, with very clear consistent boundaries.

Our aim is to provide opportunities and experiences that widen the individuals sense of belonging through our individualised support.

More information about the service and the team can be found by clicking here.

About The Role

Qualified or currently working towards a level 3 in Health and Social Care, within this Residential Support Worker role, you’ll lead a team of support workers on shift, ensuring high standards of care and personalised support for the children and young people we support.

This will include supporting in the absence of the Registered Manager or Team Leader, supervisions of staff, case managing and assisting in the development of the service.

How You’ll Create Brighter Futures

• Lead and supervise a team of support workers during shifts, ensuring smooth operations and effective teamwork.
• Conduct regular staff supervisions, offering guidance, support, and performance feedback to foster professional development and high-quality care.
• Manage and oversee individual cases, ensuring care plans are followed and regularly reviewed to meet the evolving needs of the children and young people.
• Assist in service development, contributing ideas and initiatives to enhance the quality of care and support provided.
  
  

Let’s Talk About You

• Possess a Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare or working towards (adult qualifications considered)
• Experience of shift leading a team of support workers
• Flexibility to work a variety of shift patterns as agreed via the rolling rota.
• Experience and training in safeguarding
• Experience of developing tailored care plans
• The ability to drive. The job requires the transportation of children and young people from and to the service as and when required.
  
  

Good to know

We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role

For more information about the role, please review our full job description by clicking here.

If, for any reason, you need support with your application, please contact Scott Jones at [email protected] quoting reference 10914 and we'll be happy to give you any support you require.

Diversity, equality, and inclusion

At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.

Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles.

Useful Documents:

• Action for Children employee benefits
• AfC Commitment Statement
• Make a Difference - A Career in Residential Services
  
  

Teitl swydd: Gweithiwr Cymorth Preswyl

Cyflog: £26,800 y flwyddyn (yn ogystal â chyfle i ennill £4,200 ychwanegol y flwyddyn yn seiliedig ar gyfartaledd o 7 cwsg y mis

Lleoliad: Wrecsam

Contract/Oriau: Parhaol, Amser Llawn – 37 awr yr wythnos (ar sail rota, diwrnodau gwaith, gyda'r nos, nosweithiau effro a phenwythnosau)

Buddion:

• 29 diwrnod o wyliau blynyddol ynghyd â gwyliau banc ac opsiynau i brynu neu werthu absenoldeb
• Pecynnau mamolaeth, mabwysiadu a thadolaeth hyblyg.
• Pensiwn opsiynol, gyda hyd at 7% o gyfraniad y cyflogwr, sy’n cynnwys yswiriant bwyd
• Porth disgownt staff a chymhwysedd Cerdyn Golau Glas gyda disgowntiau gan 15,000 o werthwyr cenedlaethol
• Rydym yn gyflogwr achrededig Cyflog Byw Go Iawn
  
  

Rydym yn un o'r elusennau plant mwyaf yn y DU ac rydym wedi bod yn gwneud gwahaniaeth i fywydau plant bregus y DU ers dros 150 o flynyddoedd.

Dysgwch fwy am Weithredu dros Blant yma: Gweithredu dros Blant ac ar X, LinkedIn, Facebook neu YouTube i ddod i'n hadnabod yn well.

Ynglŷn â'r Gwasanaeth

Mae Gwasanaethau Preswyl Tan y Dre yn gartref preswyl therapiwtig 4 gwely, lle rydym yn darparu gofal tymor canolig i hir i bobl ifanc 9-18 oed ag anghenion cymhleth ac ymddygiadau heriol. Nod y rôl hon yw eu cynorthwyo a’u trawsnewid i fod yn oedolion diogel a hapus.

Mae ein plant yn derbyn ymyriad pwrpasol i’w hangenion unigol wedi’u cynorthwyo gan dîm o staff sy’n gwbl ymroddedig i ddeall ac ateb anghenion y plant ac i leihau’r rhwystrau a adnabyddir.

Bydd ein model therapiwtig yn darparu amgylchedd lle byddant yn derbyn profiadau cadarnhaol o fagu teulu yn ddibynadwy, a chyson trwy ddarparu gofal penodol a strwythuredig, gyda ffiniau eglur cyson iawn.

Ynglŷn â'r rôl

Yn gymwys neu'n gweithio tuag at lefel 3 mewn Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol ar hyn o bryd, o fewn y rôl hon o Weithwyr Cymorth Preswyl, byddwch yn arwain tîm o weithwyr cymorth ar shifft, gan sicrhau safonau uchel o ofal a chymorth personol i'r plant a'r bobl ifanc rydym yn eu cefnogi.

Bydd hyn yn cynnwys cefnogi yn absenoldeb y Rheolwr Cofrestredig neu'r Arweinydd Tîm, goruchwylio staff, rheoli achosion a chynorthwyo i ddatblygu'r gwasanaeth.

Sut byddwch yn helpu i greu dyfodol mwy disglair

• Arwain a goruchwylio tîm o weithwyr cymorth yn ystod sifftiau, gan sicrhau gweithrediadau llyfn a gwaith tîm effeithiol.
• Cynnal sesiynau goruchwylio staff rheolaidd, gan gynnig arweiniad, cefnogaeth, ac adborth perfformiad i feithrin datblygiad proffesiynol a gofal ansawdd uchel.
• Rheoli a goruchwylio achosion unigol, gan sicrhau bod cynlluniau gofal yn cael eu dilyn a'u hadolygu'n rheolaidd i ddiwallu anghenion plant a'r bobl ifanc.
• Cynorthwyo i ddatblygu gwasanaethau, gan gyfrannu syniadau a mentrau i wella ansawdd y gofal a'r cymorth a ddarparu.
  
  

Gadewch i ni siarad amdanoch chi

• Cymhwyster Lefel 3 mewn Iechyd a Gofal Cymdeithasol plant a phobl ifanc (neu gydnabyddedig cyfwerth) neu sy'n gweithio tuag ato ar hyn o bryd.
• Profiad o shifft yn arwain tîm o weithwyr cymorth
• Hyblygrwydd i weithio amrywiaeth o batrymau shifft fel y cytunwyd trwy'r rota treigl.
• Profiad a hyfforddiant mewn diogelu
• Profiad o ddatblygu cynlluniau gofal wedi'u teilwra
  
  

Da i wybod

Sylwer na allwn gynnig nawdd ar gyfer y rôl hon.

Am ragor o wybodaeth am y rôl, adolygwch ein disgrifiad swydd llawn drwy glicio yma.

Os, am unrhyw reswm, bydd angen cefnogaeth arnoch gyda'ch cais, cysylltwch â Scott Jones yn [email protected] gan ddyfynnu cyfeirnod 10914 a byddwn yn hapus i roi unrhyw gefnogaeth sydd ei hangen arnoch chi.

Amrywiaeth, cydraddoldeb a chynhwysiant

Yn Gweithredu dros Blant, rydym yn ymroddedig i feithrin gweithle amrywiol, cynhwysol a dilys. Rydym yn annog ceisiadau’n frwd gan ymgeiswyr Du, Asiaidd ac o Ethnigrwydd Lleiafrifol, ac ymgeiswyr anabl, am nad ydynt wedi eu cynrychioli’n ddigonol yn Gweithredu dros Blant. Rydym am gymryd camau pwrpasol a bwriadol i sicrhau cyfleoedd cyfartal i bob grŵp mewn cymdeithas ac i Gweithredu dros Blant.

Mae staff gwrywaidd yn cael eu tangynrychioli o fewn ein rolau Gwasanaeth Plant. Hoffem annog mwy o ymgeiswyr gwrywaidd ar gyfer ein rolau Gwasanaeth Plant.

Dogfennau Defnyddiol:

• Llyfryn buddion gweithwyr Gweithredu dros
• Datganiad Ymrwymiad GdB