Support Worker

Support workers must

• Undergo a DBS check

• Be non-judgmental

• Empathetic

• Understand the changing needs of young people leaving care and the challenges they face.

• You must be practical and flexible and able to respond to a variety of situations. This will require you to work in a trauma-informed way.

• Need basic IT skills,

• Level 2 NVQ or equivalent.

• Excellent interpersonal skills and understand the importance of working within equal opportunities, safeguarding and confidentiality guidelines.

• Communicate on different levels both verbally and in writing, and have good life skills.

• Undergo a DBS check

• Recent experience working either as a Senior Children's Residential Support Worker or as a Children's Residential Support Worker in a Children's Home.

• NVQ level 2 for Residential Childcare (or equivalent qualification).

• Full UK Driving Licence.