Support Worker

Hours ranging from 8pm - 10am. Part Time / Full Time / Bank Hours Available
The Cambian Group is one of the largest providers of specialist behavioural health services for children and adults in the UK. We are looking for a Nights Support Worker to join our team who aligns with our ethos that everyone has a personal best. Our work in the UK embraces many specialist services including adult mental health, acquired brain injury, children’s specialist education, children’s residential services and fostering services.
The Forum School and Residential Home is a 52-week residential specialist school in Dorset providing quality therapeutic care and education for young people with Autism, severe learning difficulties, challenging behaviour and complex needs.
The Forum School is currently working towards reshaping the way in which specialists support young people into adulthood and seeks to prepare them for possible employment and lifelong fulfilment.
Purpose of the role
The role of the Nights Support Worker is to play an active part in supporting young people who have Autism to live fun-filled, meaningful lives. This is achieved by people with a passion for providing our young people with a supportive, family environment within our the on-site homes. Our team help our young people to overcome barriers that have previously prevented them from building relationships with peers and adults, making progress in life and finding a place of significance in their community.
The caring role requires the ability to support our young people by providing physical and emotional care should it be required during the waking night. Using a highly therapeutic approach aligned with the multidisciplinary teams across The Forum School, our Nights Support Workers provide a happy, secure, caring and effective environment in support of the waking day curriculum aims.
Night Support Work is a vital role that supports all that can be achieved throughout the waking day. This includes working directly with the young people at times but also working behind the scenes completing essential tasks such as helping to maintain the highest standards of cleanliness in the home and domestic tasks such as ensuring the young people’s laundry is done. Being able to work closely within a team and independently are key criteria for being successful in this role.
Night Support Workers have a passion for working with young people and want to make a difference in young people’s lives. Your ambition to see our young people live full and active, fun-filled lives will have a profound impact on the wellbeing and development of the young people in your care.
As a Night Support Worker you will:
* Supervise and support young people in their Forum School home if they wake during the night and support with their morning routines
* Support young people with any prescribed emergency medication.
* Build and maintain positive professional relationships with staff and young people
* Encourage and motivate young people to wake and prepare for their day
* Ability to demonstrate good communication skills including the ability to clarify and explain instructions clearly.
* Support young people’s emotional and physical wellbeing.
* Produce legible, accurate and prompt written reports/records
* To help young people grow in their own sense of confidence and identity.
Cambian is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Cambian is committed to safeguarding and protecting the young people and service users within our care. All candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check and reference checks.
Cambian will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will be purely based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination a person who will not be on the appointment panel will conduct the search and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern