Residential Night Support Worker

Location

Bradford | United Kingdom

Job description

Are you an experienced Residential Night Support Worker who would like to work for a values led organisation?

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Residential Night Support Worker with a good initiative and excellent communication skills to join our busy and friendly team at our Independent Approved Premises in Bradford.

You will work through the night as part of a team providing support at all times and enforcement of rules when necessary to clients residing at the IAP. In particular to monitor and encourage compliance, door duties, guide, advise and supervise clients. You will provide a safe and engaging home and model pro social behaviour. Your professional and flexible nature will allow you to positively impact on those who you support and the rest of the team around you, allowing you to flourish and develop in this diverse and rewarding role.

At Langley we believe in equipping our staff to be the best they can be. That means providing excellent support and free training to enable you to make a rewarding difference to people’s lives every day. We have a great opportunity available for a Residential Night Support Worker based in Bradford on a permanent basis, working 40 hours per week.

The successful candidate will receive a competitive salary of £27,126* per annum as well as other generous benefits which include:

• Generous annual leave up to 30 days plus bank holidays
• Fantastic pension scheme, matched up to 8%
• Life Assurance up to 3 times your salary
• Fully funded DBS and renewals
• Company sick pay scheme
• ‘Smart Health’, which includes unlimited access to online, telephone and video GP
• Access to private holiday flat in Torquay
• Wellbeing Support – our 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme includes free counselling and legal advice
• Eyecare & Flu vouchers
• Access to chaplaincy and pastoral support

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Help to create and maintain a positive culture of respect in all work with both clients and colleagues
• Actively engage with clients and provide opportunities to do so including preparation of supper and breakfast
• Contribute to the delivery of the sentence plan in conjunction with colleagues in probation, the police and other external agencies
• Provide admin and other support to colleagues, particularly in the preparation, facilitation and evaluation of purposeful activities
• Follow protocols, encouraging compliance and taking enforcement action as necessary, in particular around drug and alcohol testing requirements and curfews
• Ensure that colleagues, multi-agency partners and management are informed and updated as necessary
• Actively monitor and maintain the health, safety, security, cleanliness and hygiene of the IAP and the well-being of its occupants, conducting door duties, utilising information sharing, CCTV, direct observation, inspection, personal contact and other methods, as appropriate

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Our Independent Approved Premises provides support for clients, with up to 17-bed spaces at Box Tree Cottage. We are a small and friendly team who have a passion for helping individuals with complex needs to help them develop life skills, enabling them to turn their lives around.

If you want to join our team as a Residential Night Support Worker, please apply now as we would love to hear from you.

Closing date: 19th April 2024

We reserve the right to close earlier if we receive sufficient applicants.

Please note that a satisfactory Enhanced DBS check is required for this role and that job offers will be subject to the Trust receiving satisfactory evidence of the successful applicant’s right to work in the UK.

*Inclusive of the 2024 Pay Review effective 1st April 2024

About LANGLEY

Langley is an innovative Christian charity that provides specialist housing, care and support services in the community, and targeted advice in prisons, for people seeking to live crime-free. With one of the lowest reconvictions rates in the country – under 3% whilst people are in our housing and care – we are changing lives and making communities safer across the country.

We're proud to be accredited as an ‘Investors in People: Gold’ employer, which celebrates the way we invest in our people. This is a huge achievement as our assessment covers the last 3 years of unprecedented challenges through the pandemic. This is the third time we have been awarded Investors in People’s Gold standard.

If you would like to hear more from our staff and clients, please take a few minutes to watch the following video clips (3 minutes each).

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EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

ED&I is integral to Langley House Trust. We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

DISABILITY CONFIDENT

As a Disability Confident Committed employer, we run a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria listed in the job description. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, please state this in your application.

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£27.13k per annum