Therapeutic Support Worker - Full Training Provided

Do you have a passion for working children and young people? Do you have some professional experience working with young people? Are you looking for a challenging yet rewarding role?

My client is a highly reputable provider of residential homes and education to young people from difficult starts and display associated challenging behaviour.

We are looking for Support Worker to join a fantastic brand-new home in Taunton for intensive therapeutic care for 2 young people.

If you have experience with children and young people in SEN education, youth work, young offenders or fostering, a career in children's homes is for you.

The Residential Support Worker role requires full commitment; this is a serious career path that requires self-sacrifice in order to ensure the young people are always put first and receive the support they need. The job will involve long hours (sometimes 24-hour shifts), overnight sleep-in shifts, alternate weekends, sometimes you will need to stay beyond your shift ending to ensure safe handover or bedtime routines.

Benefits include:

• £32,000 salary OTE (this includes payment for sleep in allowance)
• 28 days paid annual leave
• Industry leading training and management development program
• Excellent career progression always available

Do you have:

• A burning desire, passion and full 100% commitment to working with extremely vulnerable children
• Flexibility in your personal life to work long hours, weekends, sleep in shifts and stay later where required
• Open, honest, self-reflective personality who is able to understand their own life struggles and compartmentalise
• Some experience working with young people is beneficial