Residential Day / Night Care Workers

Powys County Council and Powys Teaching Health Board in partnership are opening a Therapeutic Children's Home, one of a kind, in our local community and we need your support. 

Our home is set within the idyllic rural countryside of North Powys, near the peaceful village of Llanbrynmair. It is a spacious residence with three bedrooms, sleeping accommodation for staff, a therapy room, comfy snug, living and dining area that open out to a large garden.

Our home will support 3 children/young people (Age 11-18) with complex emotional and behavioural difficulties due to their early life experience.

The outside space at our home will be as important as the inside, providing the opportunity for children and young people to care and handle small animals, to garden by growing fruit, vegetables, and flowers; for everyone at our home to enjoy the therapeutic benefit of fresh air and exercise in beautiful surroundings.  

As part of a dedicated team, you will create a safe home that will improve placement stability and parenting capacity to support children and young people with the most complex needs to achieve positive outcomes, improve their life chances and social well-being.  This unique opportunity in Powys will enable us to support children in their own communities, as part of our vision to enable children to stay closer to home.

Therapeutic Care

The aim of Therapeutic Care is to promote personal change, reflected in changes in thinking, emotional functioning, and behaviour.  The team will be trained to be trauma-informed to help children and young people recover from their early adversity by developing greater emotional trust and security in adults.

As a Residential Care worker, you will be responsible for ensuring that children with complex emotional and behavioural needs are safe, healthy, learning, fulfilledand have their voices heard and acted upon.    

Residential Care Workers will be the foundation of the team providing daily care.  Your role will be responsible for promoting healthy, safe routine and creating a warm, inclusive home under the direction of the Registered Manager.  Your role will be integral to a flexible team that will organise, encourage, and share residential and leisure activities that meet the needs of the children and young people at the home.  This will include outside activities such as maintaining the gardens, creating a vegetable patch and responsibility for the care, feeding and welfare of small animals.

The Residential Night Care Worker will be a continuity of the day role providing safe care throughout the night.

You must be able to drive and have a full clean driving licence.

All our post holders must have an enhanced DBS check.

We are looking for people who care and can connect with young people.  Your experience may not be in Residential Care, but you can demonstrate how you share our values when you have worked/volunteered/cared/supported and inspired young people in other ways.

Our values: Professional, Positive, Progressive, Open, Collaborative

We are looking for people to work with us to enable:

POSITIVE parenting

• Can you show us how you build relationships of trust, to teach connection before correction?
• Are you able to nurture boundaries with a patient and calm manner?

PROFESSIONAL specialist support

• Do you want to be part of a team that puts theory into practice?  You will learn about Therapeutic care and then use your knowledge to make a difference with the input of other specialists.
• You will be able to follow agreed policies, procedures, and standards in your work and provide a safe and effective service, sensitive to the needs of children and young people.

OPEN responsibility

• Are you reflective, resourceful, and open to developing yourself with your team?
• You will be honest, open, and not afraid to admit when you have made a mistake to create a culture of trust.

PROGRESSIVE opportunities

• Can you motivatechildren and young people, to broaden and progress their experience through inside and outside activity, new skills, and education to promote well-being and discovery of their ability?
• You will have a 'can do' attitude and keep trying new ideas until you find a way to connectand inspire, you won't give up!

COLLABORATIVELY promote

• Can you work with children & young people and your team to promote the best outcomes in our home?
• Are you courageous, willing to champion quality, and raise concerns?
• You will be able to listen with dignity and respect to the children and young people we support.

If you share our values and care, we want you!

We will give you all the training and support you need to obtain a qualification in QCF / NVQ Diploma Level 3 in Health & Social Care Children and Young People within two years of commencement of employment.

Whilst it will be your personal responsibility to register with Social Care Wales we will support you to do this.  We will help you evidence your competencies through your work practice and enable you to complete the Principles and Values Award or the All Wales Induction Framework to progress in Health and Social care.

We will train you in the therapeutic model to emotionally connect with children.  Ongoing you will receive reflective group supervision supported by a clinical psychologist.

We will provide a comprehensive induction package that will include positive behaviour management, first aid, fire safety training, food hygiene, care and medication.  You will undertake mandatory e-learning and the induction will give you the opportunity to get to know your team, policies & procedures, and the home where you will be providing care.

Being part of Powys Children's Services will mean that you are part of a learning community and opportunity to apply to our 'Grow your own' Social Worker programme or Level 5 Diploma in Leadership in Health and Social Care. 

You will have access to online and in person training events such as:

• Attachment Theory
• Challenging Behaviour
• Child Development
• Appropriate Touch
• Community of Practice Seminars that examine issues such as Child Sexual Exploitation

This is an example of the rota times/expectations that will be in place at the home:

Residential Day Care Workers will work shift times of 07:15 to 15:00 and 14:00 - 22:00.

Residential Night Care Workers will work a night shift of 21:30 to 07:30.

Care will be provided on a 24-hour basis and the rota pattern will ensure a healthy balance between providing intensive support to young people and subsequent rest and recovery for the staff team. 

Residential Workers will always work with a Senior Residential Worker to lead the shift. 

The team will be supported by managers of the home and an on-call system will provide management cover 7 days a week.

A rolling rota system will be projected throughout the calendar year, giving staff the opportunity to plan ahead promoting a good work life balance.  

As well as the satisfaction of making a difference, you'll receive some great benefits and rewards:

• Enhanced rates of pay
• Flexible shifts and rota in advance
• First-class training and development
• Healthy work-life balance
• Clinical group supervision
• Employee discount & rewards scheme
• Great annual leave entitlement
• Excellent Local Government Pension Scheme
• Confidential support on health matters affecting work