Senior Night Support Worker

Role Description

The Cambian Group is one of the largest providers of specialist behavioural health services for children and adults in the UK. Our work in the UK embraces many specialist services including children’s specialist education, children’s residential services, adult mental health, acquired brain injury and fostering services.

The Forum School

The Forum School and Residential Home is a 52-week residential and specialist school providing quality therapeutic care and education for young people with Autism, severe learning difficulties and challenging behaviour and complex needs. The children and young people that attend our school range between 7 and 19 years of age.

Purpose and Summary of the Job

To work in the residential area providing guidance, support and encouragement to young people in a variety of settings including classroom, education and off-site activities. The job involves enabling our young people to develop by providing physical and emotional support. The role is about working as part of a team to maintain a stable, happy and caring environment that puts the health, safety and welfare of our young people first. Important qualities of this role are being a good role model and conducting yourself in a professional manner at all times whilst on duty or representing the company at outside events.

Please note that this role will include working on some weekends and Bank Holidays.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• To be a mentor to Night Support Workers.
• To maintain a safe, clean and enjoyable environment to live and work in, this will involve domestic duties.
• Know and actively promote young peoples specific needs and help meet those needs in the most appropriate way following all relevant policies and procedures.
• Assist young people with their medical and welfare needs and to report as required.
• Administer needs to residents and be a part of the medical audit process as required.
• Help our young people to maintain their personal cleanliness, general hygiene and appearance, this may include intimate care as required when trained.
• Keep up to date with and actively promote a variety of all communication/information systems.
• To support the young people towards managing their own behaviour by using the skills and approved approaches.
• Build a good positive professional relationship with the young people and other staff at your establishment and throughout the Group and disengage from these appropriately.
• Write accurate and comprehensive reports for reviews and keep written records for monitoring purposes as required.
• Ensure that you keep yourself up to date with all procedures and policy changes and actively, disseminate information to ensure your team members are aware.

Person Specification

• Knowledge of general health, safety and welfare of young people.
• Knowledge of how young people develop and learn.
• Knowledge of what effective teamwork is and what a multi disciplinary approach is.
• Ability to follow a work pattern which is primarily waking night shifts and attend work punctually and reliably.
• Ability to go wherever our young people go and participate and possibly lead indoor and outdoor activities.
• To be able to communicate clearly and easily with young people and others in a variety of ways.
• Ability to read and understand written work and to write clear and accurate reports/notes.

Experience

• A minimum of 1 years’ recent experience of working with young people with special needs/disabilities.
• Experience and ability of working as part of a team with responsibility for encouraging and supporting other staff.
• No criminal record including convictions, cautions, reprimands, bindings over or warnings which may be relevant to the safety and welfare of students/residents or staff.

Requirements for an Enhanced DBS and reference checking will be undertaken in line with government regulations and safer recruitment best practice. Whilst we endeavour to keep the recruitment process as short as possible due to the nature of these important checks it may extend the processing time. All young people are equally entitled to have their needs met in a fair and balanced way. Cambian Group employees are responsible for promoting equal opportunities for all and for challenging behaviour or practice which discriminates against any young person or colleague on the grounds of race, religion, disability, age, gender, sexual orientation or any other perceived difference.

We will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will be purely based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination a person who will not be on the appointment panel will conduct the search and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.

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