Residential childcare worker

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 rsquo;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