Residential Youth Worker
Position: Residential Youth Worker
Annual Salary: £31,935.54 per a year and opportunities for additional pay-out of extra hours worked.
Employment Type: Full Time Position
Reports To: Registered Manager
Position Location: [Insert Area or Service]
Benefits with our Charity:
Career pathways towards Senior Youth Work 2, or Key Worker positions within Safe Places.
Internal Roles and Responsibilities checklist to be completed within 6 months that will progress you to a Youth Worker 2 position with a higher salary.
An induction period to help with being embedded into the home and the team. As well as an opportunity to complete shadow shifts.
Flexible working and a planned structured roster. Supporting team members work life balance.
Paid 3 weeks induction training that includes Therapeutic Crisis Intervention Training (TCI), Health and Safety, Fire Safety, Safeguarding, Medicine Management, Trauma and Attachment Training etc.
Ongoing commitment to training and your professional development, which includes roles and responsibility checklist within the first 6 months of employment.
Professional Development Plan after successful 6-month probation period.
Internal reflective supervision, ongoing coaching, professional development plans, additional support requests and a team ethos.
Access to 24 hour on-call support, 7 days a week with a trained TCI Post Crisis Response staff member.
Access to our Triple Tier support, which include external counselling service offered to all employees (paid for by the charity).
A new model of working regarding providing a child centred focused therapeutic residential homes to young people in the UK.
Be a part of Safe Places journey and evolvement to be one of the leading therapeutic residential providers across the UK.
33 days of paid Annual Leave
Monitoring of staff members work life balance through hour’s bank system.
6 months anniversary bonus of £250.00, this is paid every six months after successful completion of 6-month probation period.
Ten percent Annual Leave Loading
Required Weekly Hours:
On average thirty-eight shift hours and two sleepovers per a week (Safe Places operates with an hour’s bank system).
Two sleepover shift is one week and three sleepover shifts the second week.
Shift patterns and types are dependent on the needs of the young people within the Registered children home.
Shift Patterns:
A shift is 24 hours long. It consists of 16 hours awake working time and 8 hours paid sleepover period (1 Sleepover).
Successful applicants for to complete a rota that consists of three shifts (one week) and two shifts (second week).
Opportunity to work additional shifts and seek pay out of additional hours.
Essential Criteria
A minimum 1 years' experience in working with challenging behaviours.
A minimum Level 3 qualification within a relevant subject.
Hold a current full UK or Irish Driving Licence for more than 1 Year and no more than three penalty points.
Be able to obtain either a positive working with children checks such as an Enhance Access NI (Northern Ireland) or Enhance DBS (England)
To be willing to register with or already registered with the Northern Ireland Social Care Council either as part 1 or part 2 registration (Northern Ireland).
Desirable Criteria
A degree level in a relevant subject.
A minimum 1 years' experience working with traumatised children and young people that have displayed challenging and pain-based behaviours.
Application Process
All applicants are to apply directly through our website; England and Northern Ireland Vacancies — Safe Places for Children UK
A copy of the Job Description can be downloaded from: https://safeplacesforchildren.co.uk/vacancies.
Induction Training Dates
Successful candidates will commence compulsory three-week Induction training starting on the [Insert Date of Induction Training] (induction training paid at a casual rate).
Waiting List
Safe Places will be developing a waiting list for any future Residential Youth Worker positions for any applicants that have not been successful at the interview stage.
These applicants will be kept on file and be added to a waiting list for a period of 6 months post their interview. Safe Places may decide to contact and make offer of employments to these applicants soon.