Night Senior Support Worker

Position: Night Senior Support Worker

Location: Hill House School, Lymington, Hampshire

Hours: 43.75

Salary Details: £33,852

Annual Leave: 6 weeks

The young people we educate and care for come to us with a huge variety of needs and difficulties. Our job is to help them build the hope, confidence, knowledge and skills to unlock their potential.

The important qualities we are looking for in our Night Senior Support Worker are being a good role model and conducting yourself in a professional manner at all times whilst on duty or representing the company at outside events. To be a mentor to Night Support Workers.

We are looking for a Night Senior Support Worker that is:

• Passionate about improving the lives of others
• A positive and consistent role model to others
• Innovative, engaging, enthusiastic and inspirational
• A calm and attentive person with a mature, supportive approach
• Flexible in working shift patterns on a rota basis to suit your needs
• An excellent communicator and team player
• Seeking career development and training

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

•  To give constructive feedback to Night support workers to improve their performance and to be a mentor
• To lead shifts and carry out appropriate de brief as required
• To notify management promptly of any matters relevant to the well being of young people
• To have knowledge of relevant standards and how these are implemented into the care setting
• Ensure that you keep yourself up to date with all procedures and policy changes and actively, disseminate information to ensure your team members are aware
• To write accurate and comprehensive reports for reviews and keep written records for monitoring purposes as required
• To build good positive professional relationships with the young people and other staff at your establishment and throughout the Group and disengage from these appropriately

The School:

Cambian Hill House School has a proud and successful tradition of supporting students aged 11-19 with Autism, Severe Learning Difficulties, Challenging behaviours and Complex Care needs, to gain valuable life skills, qualifications and confidence to support their onward journey towards independence. The dedicated care team recognise this success and want to offer this opportunity to a wider range of young people and adults as part of their ongoing developments that are taking place across all areas of the Cambian Hill House provision.

Cambian Hill House School and Residential provision is located in the village of Boldre with nearby seaside resort, Lymington, benefiting from ready to access countryside, the coast and a small town. They have recently been rated 'OUTSTANDING' by Ofsted and are the flagship ‘One Planet Living’ school for Cambian Caretech. One Planet Living is a vision of a world where we can live happily within our one Earth's resources, and Hill House School follow a simple framework designed to achieve just that!

Cambian is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Cambian is committed to Safeguarding and protecting the young people and service users within our care. All candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and reference checks.

Cambian will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the search and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.