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Residential Support Worker - College View - Full Time 52 Week

Employer
St John's School and College
Location
Brighton, East Sussex
Salary
18,599.70
Closing date
13 Jun 2019

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Sector
Care, Social Care, Education, Further
Function
Hospitality
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time

Job Details

Are you looking for a new direction? Thinking of a career in care? Do you have any experience of working with young adults with learning disabilities?

If so, we are seeking enthusiastic individuals who are positive about learning disabilities to join our team as Residential Support Workers, in our College View house.

St. John’s is a specialist school and college offering high quality education and care for young people aged 7-25 with a wide range of special educational needs. 

College View supports a group of young people aged 19-25 with a diverse range of complex needs and characteristics, all of whom struggle to communicate their needs. This means we work with individuals in very specific ways to meet their needs, that’s not to say that other learners receive a blanket approach by any means, but the College View learners require specific attention to detail. Staff will need to be aware and work in a proactive manner to ensure learners are supported effectively, feel secure and reduce anxieties.

Becoming part of the College View team means working, sometimes on your own, with people who will test you, present behaviours that challenge and expose you to the more extreme reaches of support work at St. John’s and requires support workers who are flexible with strong emotional resilience and skills in reflective practice.

Title                            College View Residential Support Worker

 

Hours                        40 hours per week as per rota

52 weeks per year + 30 days holiday

Base                          College View House, St. John’s College, Brighton

Salary                     £18,599.70 per annum

 

 

Our aim is to promote the inclusion of all learners ensuring they have equal access to opportunities to become as independent as possible. Our expectation is that all staff in learner facing roles will actively promote life skills and making choices.

·         Positive and compassionate attitude towards Learners. Promoting the rights of residents to be treated with dignity and respect in every aspect of their lives.

 

·         Respect the confidences of resident young people, except where to do so would result in harm to a resident, damage to the organization or the commission of a criminal offence.

 

·         Promote the emotional health and self-esteem of residents, supporting them through changes in living circumstances and personal relationships.

 

·         Support resident young people in making their own choices and decisions to the maximum of their capability, and ensure that the needs and wishes of residents are fully considered in any decision relating to them.

 

·         Ensure the protection of residents from significant harm, by exercising vigilance, observing changes in the residents’ behavior or appearance, and complying fully with St. John’s Child/Adult Safeguarding policy.

 

All job applicants will be required to provide 2 referees (one must be your most recent employer) and undertake an enhanced DBS Disclosure. This process forms part of our recruitment and safeguarding policy.
 

Please visit our company website where you can find the full job description and can complete our application form or submit your CV.

Company

St. John’s is a charity that provides education, care and therapy for learners with complex behaviours from 5- 25; we are based in Brighton and Seaford. We also offer training across the region and sector.

 

St. John’s is about improving lives by making a practical difference to the learners who access our services and by embracing their unique diversity. Our core mission is to enable our learners to achieve aspirational goals and to live their lives to the full. Recognising the complexity and scale of this task we focus our work around five placement outcomes which inform and guide all that we do:

 

• We promote well-being, the basis of effective learning

• We develop communication, the basis of engagement in society

• We focus on skill development, the basis of a productive life

• At all times we promote independence, a fundamental human right

• We passionately believe that all our learners can be employed, in some form, during their lives.

 

Company info
Website
Telephone
01273 244 048
Location
Walpole Road
Brighton
East Sussex
BN2 0AF
GB

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