Residential Support Worker

Sheffield City Council are investing in our residential services and we provide consistent, good quality care through 9 children’s homes across the City Council. Our homes provide an environment where young people feel happy to live.

We are looking to appoint a number of full time and part time Residential Support Workers at Aldine House Secure Children's Home. As a Residential Support Worker (RSW) you will be committed to providing the highest standards of care to our young people. You will provide care for the most vulnerable in our society and you will have knowledge of trauma informed practice, social pedagogy and person-centred approach to inform practice; We as a team work continuously to improve the quality of our Children’s homes, ensuring our young people have every opportunity to thrive and develop.

We are licensed to provide care, education and support to ten children and young people aged between 10 and 18. As a specialist service, we provide a critical first-line child protection and public protection service.

Our children and young people need highly skilled, resilient and committed people who can build appropriate safe relationships and support them on their journey to a positive future and enabling our children realise their full potential.

We work with young people who have been placed in secure accommodation either because they are deemed to be too vulnerable to be placed in an open residential placement, they have been sentenced by the courts or they have been placed with us on remand.

Due to the trauma each child has been through this presents a distinct and significant challenge to our team who work together to build positive, safe and secure relationships and help young people make progress in all aspects of their life. All of our team are required to show high levels of resilience and resourcefulness in order to work successfully with our young people.

Our RSWs provide positive, boundaried parenting that is entirely child-centred. We are moving to more therapeutically informed parenting and want like minded individuals to join us on our journey.

Though you do not need to be a parent, we will need you to have experience in residential childcare, youth justice, special education, or a similar field, including those with vulnerable adults. This will enable you to work with individuals and small groups of young people to ensure their day-to-day wellbeing, deliver leisure activities, group work and 1:1 key work sessions.

You must hold, be working towards, or be willing to undertake and complete within 2 years of starting work at the home, the Level 3 Children and Young people’s Workforce Diploma and Social Care Pathway (England) 2015. OR you should hold an equivalent qualification such as The NVQ 3 caring for children & young people and be prepared to complete any additional work to meet the required level. More information on the role can be found within the Job and Person profile

If successful, you will work according to a rota pattern that includes regular weekend working and Bank Holidays. You will be paid at an enhanced rate for ‘unsociable hours’.

What you can expect:

Exceptionally competitive salary when factoring in secure unit allowance and enhancements for working unsociable hours.

Residential Childrens Worker roles attract the following additional payments. This Residential Childrens Worker role is shift based (earlies, late’s and sleep in’s) to provide 24hr care.

As an RSW at Aldine House, you will receive continuous training and ongoing professional development and support to enable you to become an outstanding practitioner. We offer continuous professional development with potential to release you to obtain qualifications through a number of apprenticeships which could be in social work, youth worker, community worker and management qualifications.

Applicants must be over 23 years of age to work at Aldine House.

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups.

We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Working for Sheffield City Council

Sheffield is also a great place to live and work. There are several perks to being a Sheffield City Council employee:

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff to share this commitment. All successful candidates will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year, part time positions are 18.5 and we offer a generous holiday entitlement.

We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities, which benefit you and the Council.

Informal enquiries to: ian.fowler@sheffield.gov.uk or paul.blore@sheffield.gov.uk