Role: Residential Support Worker

Location: Kirkham, Preston.

Hours: Full-Time.

This post represents the standards, authority, responsibility and accountability of a Residential Support Worker.  As Residential Support Worker, the post holder will assist the Team Leaders and Deputy / Registered Manager(s) in the day-to-day functions of the home and care programmes for young people.

The role of the Residential Support Worker is an important one within Creative Living Care Ltd and as such provides an excellent opportunity for professional development within the company. 

Creative Living Care Ltd invests heavily in staff development and is committed to recruiting future Team Leaders and Managers wherever possible from within its own ranks. 

The core purpose of the role of the Residential Support Worker is to:

Assist the Team Leaders, Deputy Manager and Registered Manager in providing an emotionally secure, consistent, warm, supportive and caring environment for the young people and to encourage their social, physical, emotional, intellectual and moral development so that they may realise their own potential. Furthermore, to work to high professional standards of care, control and supervision.

Standards

This job description requires the post holder to perform his/her duty commensurate with the agreed standards for:

• Children’s Homes – Quality Standards and Regulations

• The Children’s Act

• Ofsted Framework and Regulations

• BILD – Autistic Spectrum Disorders