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Senior Residential Worker - Nights

Please Note: The application deadline for this job has now passed.

Role Responsibility

An exciting new opportunity in Kent County Council has arisen to join the team working in The Nest, which is a small 3 bedded residential unit offering support to individuals aged 13-18 with behaviours that challenge. The unit offers that support in a time limited assessment period, to stabilise the situation and work with families and professionals to create PBS strategies, to allow the person to return home successfully.

You will need to have a Level 3 Diploma in Care or equivalent.

Staff will work as part of a team supporting individuals and contributing to support plans, which can effect changes to behaviour. Staff will be required to work a set shift pattern, which includes alternate weekends and sleep-in duties.

Experience of supporting individuals with challenging behaviours or experience of positive behavioural programming is required.

You should have experience of working with learning disabled adults or children.

Interviews will be conducted under the ‘Choosing with Care’ assessment process

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure application to the Disclosure and Barring Service. 

Contact Details

For further information on this vacancy, please contact Penny Holden on 03000 420346 or at penny.holden@kent.gov.uk, or Katrina O'Leary on 03000 420280 or at Katrina.O'Leary@kent.gov.uk

About the Company

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.

Salary Starting salary £25,692 pro rata
Contract type Permanent Part Time
Working Hours 15 hours per week
Location Ashford , United Kingdom
Job category Social Care - Unqualified
Job Reference REF/TP/853/602
Closing Date 27 August, 2020

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