About the Role
Are you looking for a rewarding career where you can make a real difference to the lives of children and their families in your local community? We may be just what you are looking for!
Our children's respite home in Andover, Rainbow Corner, is looking for Residential Support Workers to join the team on a part time, permanent basis!
Job Opportunity
About you:
We’re looking for people who share our values and want to make a difference to the lives of children and young people with learning disabilities. We're looking for:
- A natural team player
- Great at communication
- Comfortable embracing change
- Strive for excellent, person centred care
- Show utmost respect for your colleagues and the people we support
To be successful in this role you’ll need to:
- be able to build great relationships with the children and young people we support.
- have a great sense of fun and willingness to try new things.
- have great communication skills (both verbal and written) and work well within a team.
- reflect on your own performance, learn from feedback and have a commitment to your own development.
- And, if you don’t already hold a Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare you’ll need to be willing to work towards it (we’ll cover the funding!)
Essential Skills
About the role:
Our Residential Support Workers provide support and care to the children and young people staying at Rainbow Corner to ensure they remain safe and have all their needs met. Duties include:
- Ensuring that children and young people are supported in accordance with their placement plans.
- Support children and young people with all aspects of daily living and role model an exemplary approach to supporting those who access Rainbow Corner.
- Complete detailed records and feed into placement plan updates and risk assessments where necessary.
- Monitor the support needs, health or risks of each child and immediately inform the Registered Manager of any changes.
We currently have two part time, permanent vacancies available for up to 20hrs per week. Shift patterns include weekends and school holidays as these are our busiest times where our service runs around the clock! During the week in term-time our shifts typically start from 2pm with the opportunity to pick up Sleep In shifts where available.
Our Children’s Respite Home - Rainbow Corner
Rainbow Corner is a bright, colourful, and welcoming children’s home which proves daytime, weekend and overnight care for children and young people with additional needs, aged 3 to 19 years.
Rainbow Corner has 6 bedrooms and has been adapted to meet the physical needs of the children that stay with us. This means that we can provide care for children and young people who have multiple and profound learning disabilities, including those on the Autistic Spectrum, those with complex medical health needs and physical disabilities.
The ethos of Rainbow Corner is to provide a safe ‘home from home’ environment for all children whilst with us, maintaining a level of consistency for each individual child. Our colleagues continue with the children’s individual programmes such as sleep, mealtimes, behaviour, toileting, independence, emotional and social development related, in liaison with their school, parents and other relevant professionals.
Due to the nature of the role, successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS.
*Please note, sponsorship opportunities are not available*
About Company
Purple Oak Support have been serving the communities of Andover and the surrounding areas for over 55 years. What started out as a concerned group of parents whose children has a learning disability, has now turned into a charity which provides supported living services, domiciliary care, community support and children’s respite.
We are continuously building on our successes and developing our services to support the people in our community. We put the needs and wishes of the people we support at the heart of what we do and always strive to grow and excel, raising awareness of, and changing attitudes surrounding learning disabilities, physical disabilities and mental health within our community.
We are committed to safe and fair recruitment, safeguarding and protecting those we care for and serve. We make sure all our staff are vetted, selected, trained, and supervised fairly and to a high standard so that they can provide safe, effective, and compassionate care
Benefits
- Eligibility for a Blue Light Card giving access to a wide range of discounts.
- Company Sick Pay Scheme
- NEST pension (where eligibility requirements are met)
- 24 hour support via our Employee Assistance Programme
- 30 days holiday (including Bank Holiday entitlement) which increases with length of service.
- Enhanced weekend and waking night rates of pay (from £12.74 - £12.97 depending on experience/qualifications)
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to
Disability Confident.