You will require good organisational and communication skills with previous care experience within a health or social care setting and experience caring for young adults and children. As a Young Adults Support Worker, you will work directly with the children and young people, with appropriate support, guidance, and commitment.
Provide care for young people through:
- Motivate service users to access the local community and take part in activities that would have a positive impact on their life.
- To be able to commit to an assignment, to ensure structure and stability for our service users.
- Establishing positive relationships with young people and always offering them unconditional and positive regard
- Acting as a role model and demonstrating appropriate pro-social ways of dealing with problems
- Ensuring that each young person's care plan is followed and amended as appropriate to reflect their changing needs.
- Meeting the physical, emotional, behavioural, cultural, and educational needs of young people
- Providing emotional support at times of difficulty or stress
- Being ambitious for young people, helping them achieve their goals and optimise their potential.
Person Specification:
- Candidates must be suitable to work with children & young people within a care setting.
- Ability to relate to and communicate with young people forming and maintaining appropriate relationships and personal boundaries with young people.
- Awareness of safeguarding issues and ability to safeguard the welfare of young people.
- Emotional resilience in working with challenging behaviours.
- Minimum of 6 months experience working in a care sector in the UK
- Right to work in the UK
- An up-to-date DBS Certificate registered on the Update Service – Should you need to apply for a new DBS we can support you with this.
- Reference information covering the last 5 years of your work history.