Job description
Providing care for young people whilst continually demonstrating our values by:
* Creating and maintaining an environment that is homely, warm, welcoming and positive through cleaning, tidying, organising and cooking etc.
* Establishing positive relationships and always offering unconditional and positive regards
* Constantly meeting the physical, emotional, behavioral, cultural and educational needs of our young people
* Acting as a role model and demonstrating appropriate pro-social ways to deal with problems
* Helping our young people to gain self-control by challenging unacceptable behavior and rewarding acceptable pro-social conduct
* Ensuring that each young person’s care plan is followed and innovated as appropriate to reflect their changing needs
* Providing advice, assistance and support on a 1:1 basis to enable young people to address past and present difficulties to achieve their best outcomes
* Being friendly and positively ambitious for our young people, helping them achieve their goals and optimise their potential
* Supporting our young people in their education and pursuit of extra-curricular activities
* Keeping accurate records and providing written reports on young people for planning meetings, reviews or any other meetings as directed by the line manager
* Empowering our young people and facilitating their active involvement decisions where appropriate around their lives and future
* Acting as an advocate at meetings where the young person is the subject of discussion
* Encouraging our young people to develop links with the community, attend off-site activities and expand their personal social networks
Contribute to your team whilst demonstrating our values by:
* Being aware of the aims and objectives of the service and working collaboratively with colleagues to achieve them
* Attending team/staff meetings and making a positive and innovative contribution to them at all times
* Actively contributing to the development of the team
* Receiving and storing information to improve communication channels
* Be willing to give and receive feedback on performance with colleagues and managers
* Having awareness of childcare plans for all young people and providing support for colleagues by maintaining consistency in their execution
* Providing informal practical and emotional support to colleagues
* Attending and contributing to regular supervision sessions in line with National Minimum Standards
* Monitoring the conduct of colleagues and referring on any causes for concern (Whistleblowing)
* Maintaining familiarity with all policies and procedures and adhering to them
* Driving company vehicles safely at all times (current driving license holders subject to procedures)
* Receiving and engaging will all training appropriate to role and maintaining an up to date training profile
* Holding responsibility for the health, safety and welfare of self and colleagues in accordance with the requirements of the organisational Health and Safety Policies
* Performing all other reasonable tasks as directed by the line manager
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