Residential Support Worker

Child Action Northwest (CANW) is an award-winning charity providing a range of innovative and creative services across the North of England that support children, families and vulnerable adults. CANW has been supporting children and young people for 130 years since the founding of the organisation in 1886. Our mission is to inspire lives and change futures. Our values of caring, empowerment, and never giving up are present in all we do and underpin our work.

We believe in the power of the individual and communities to grow, develop and change.

We have a new and exciting opportunity within CANW for both full-time and part-time Residential Support Workers for our upcoming Residential Children’s Home. At this exciting point in growth for our charity, you will be responsible for providing day-to-day care for young people aged 8 to 17 with social and emotional mental health difficulties.

• Promote a safe and secure environment for children/young people and ensure that others adhere to policies, procedures, and working practices.
• To provide day-to-day care for young people aged 8 to 17 with social and emotional mental health difficulties.
• To establish a clear transition plan to rehabilitation to birth families, fostering or independent living. Responsible for ensuring that young people are prepared for and supported to reach independence.
• To foster a safe, secure, and accepting environment encouraging positive behaviour in all aspects of the young person’s life.
• Ensure that the wishes and feelings of children/young people are considered in all aspects of their daily care and in accordance with their age and understanding. Ensure children and young people have forums to contribute to decisions about their lives.
• Provide opportunities for children/young people to learn, develop, and reach their full potential through regular and consistent access to education and wider experiences that will enrich their life.
• Support children/young people to maintain a good level of health and well-being whilst developing their awareness of areas that can negatively impact their well-being.
• Promotes the needs of each child/young person arising from their racial, cultural, and religious backgrounds. Enable children/young people to establish their own identity within their home environment.
• Responsible for the development, monitoring, and review of care plans with the young person, including risk assessments, ensuring that appropriate others are aware of the child/young person’s individual needs & requirements.
• Supports children/young people to maintain meaningful relationships with those important to them. Where appropriate, supports children/young people to establish, develop, and maintain relationships and social networks outside of the home.
• Promote a safe, secure, and accepting environment for children/young people where positive behaviour is encouraged and praised.
• Provide appropriate and meaningful boundaries which support children/young people’s understanding of the benefits of positive behaviour on their own and others health, safety, and well-being. Responds consistently on a day-to-day basis to incidents of challenging behaviour and supports others to develop consistency in their own practice.

• Promotes open and effective relationships with children/young people where they can share concerns about their health, well-being and relationships. Promote health and well-being raising awareness of factors that can impact on it.
• Recognises signs and symptoms of abuse and harm and ensures that respectful observations are made of children/young people to ensure their safety is paramount.
• Ensure that disclosures of danger, harm, or abuse made by children/young people are responded to in a calm and sensitive manner and are accurately recorded and reported. Ensures that children/young people are openly and honestly informed of who will need to be contacted if a disclosure of danger, harm, or abuse is disclosed.
• Ensure that the wishes, feelings, and preferences of children/young people are listened to and considered whilst maintaining safeguarding practice. Support the young person to respectfully…