Waking Nights Residential Support Worker

Waking Nights Support Worker

Salary Range: £19,407.36-£20,453.79.

We are looking for a caring person, (as a result of the service user’s care needs we have a genuine occupational requirement to recruit a male for this role) with great character to join our team of Support Workers.  Our fantastic team supports a number of residents with learning difficulties in a home life setting in the centre of Sheffield.  You will have responsibility for promoting and ensuring the safety, care, well-being, learning, and development of the residents, to enable their growth in confidence and social and practical skills.

To be successful in this role you will:

• Ideally, be an experienced support worker who has worked in a residential setting and worked with young people with challenging behaviours
• Supervise and support service users in their residential settings with a range of domestic activities such as cooking, shopping, cleaning, and laundry
• At night supervise service users, including behaviour management, personal care, medication, handling, and carrying out household tasks when residents are sleeping
• Be willing to work evenings and weekends as this is an essential requirement of the role. This will be on a shift basis
• Have excellent communication skills, as well as experience in report writing and record keeping

Working at Freeman College is incredibly rewarding and in return, we offer competitive salaries, with progression in pay once qualified and an Auto-enrolment pension scheme. In addition, staff receive;

• Staff will receive a comprehensive induction, extensive training, and development plan to include Autism, Attachment, Practical Skills Therapeutic Education (PSTE), MAPA (Physical Intervention) training, and much more
• 33-38 days annual leave (including bank holidays) increasing with your length of service with us