There is no better time to start a career within residential childcare than now!
Due to the nature of this role, we are only able to consider candidates with a full UK driving licence.
If you would like to build a career that gives you genuine sense of achievement and fulfilment knowing that you can have a positive impact on the young people we support, then look no further and apply today!
Our brand new Children's Home is recruiting for Waking Night Support Workers now! We are looking for enthusiastic, caring and passionate people to become an integral part of our support team. In this role, you will support our young people and you will be required to be alert and observant at all times. In addition to regular checks on the children and young people you will be assigned additional tasks.
Our benefits include...
Exclusive access to reward and discount schemeComprehensive inductionCommitment to your ongoing training and career progressionPension schemePaid for enhanced DBSWellbeing supportCycle to work scheme and more!
Based in the picturesque market town of Frome, our children's home will provide nurturing and support for children and young people with a range of needs, including autism, mental health challenges, emotional and behavioural difficulties, and learning disabilities. The overall focus of the home is to achieve positive outcomes for young people, we do this through multi agency working, personalised care planning and creating positive attachments.
At Aspris Children’s Services, we are immensely proud of the career pathway and training we can offer you. As long as you can demonstrate the values needed for a role within residential childcare, we will give you all the training and support you need to become a qualified Waking Night Support Worker.
Experience isn’t always essential but there are a few characteristics you will need to be successful in this role:
Resilience We support some of the most vulnerable children in society who have varying degrees of emotional behavioural difficulties, autism, ADHD and associated difficulties so there will be times where your resilience is challenged.Communication Communicating with our young people is vital to understand their needs. Good teamwork and communication plays a key part in ensuring important information is relayed to other staff.Organisation You’ll need to be confident and organised in updating care plans and reporting information that will be relevant to the care of our young people.Caring Our young people require the best care we can offer. If you are a naturally caring and compassionate person, this is the role for you.Attentive No young person / situation is the same so being attentive to understand them and identify areas where we can support is important and alert within any situation.
Above all, we provide a supportive and collaborative working environment where you can flourish in your career and feel incredibly rewarded by helping those who need it most.
If you want residential childcare to be a job for life, Aspris Children’s Services will help you get there.
Aspris is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All applicants must be willing to undergo safeguarding screening appropriate to the post, including checks with Disclosure & Barring Service and at least 2 references which cover the last 3 years; for all our services we will request references from where you have worked with either Children or Vulnerable Adults. Please be advised that references may be requested prior to interview for roles within our Schools.
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