Residential Support Worker

Cicely Haughton School, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST9 0BX

46 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  28 April 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  11 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £26,409.00 Annually (Actual) Sleep-in allowance

Residential Support Worker job summary

The pupils who attend Cicely Haughton come from all across Staffordshire and have Education Health Care Plans for Special Educational Needs for Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties with resulting behavioural problems. Our aim at Cicely Haughton School is to make our Residential pupils feel safe, valued and listened to. We are seeking someone who has patience, a sense of humour, a lot of energy and enjoys working with young people.

The job will be varied and will include:

Supporting young people to have fun, trust adults, make friends and develop their self-confidence.

Maintaining a safe, secure and pleasant environment for the young people to live in.

Working with other staff and on your own to prepare activities.

The role includes working 3 x evenings per week in the Residential Educational provision and this will include a minimum of one sleep-in per week.

Leading by example and being a good role model.

Keeping up to date observations and records and feeding back to parents and guardians.

In return the school will provide access to comprehensive and flexible Employee Assistance Programmes which include:

Tech schemes

• Cycle to work schemes
• Online gym classes
• Health and wellbeing support
• Financial advice services
• Thinkwell fast track counselling service
• Physiotherapy
• Retail discounts in supermarkets, high street shops, restaurants and days out

Cicely Haughton School is seeking to appoint a Residential Support Worker to work within our Residential provision, rostered for weekdays 37 hours per week, with occasional split shifts and sleep-in requirements, for which an additional allowance is paid.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an “Outstanding Residential School” where emphasis is put on teamwork, mutual respect and hard work.

We require a motivated and confident team member who possesses the ability to build positive relationships with young people who have a range of social, emotional and mental health difficulties (SEMH). The role enables autonomy to co-manage a group of young people to enhance their independence, resilience, and self-confidence through nurture, leisure and community-based activities. Emphasis is also placed on improving areas related to daily life skills such as personal care and independence.

The successful candidate will be provided with an extensive induction and training programme, with support to complete relevant and adequate qualifications, and the opportunity to expand your own professional development and knowledge base.

Interested candidates can visit the School on Monday 14th April 2025 at 16:00 for a tour as part of the application process.

Applications should be completed on My New Term – www.mynewterm.com

The closing date for applications is noon on Monday 28th April 2025

Interviews Thursday 1st May 2025

For more information about Manor Hall Academy Trust, visit www.manorhall.academy

This School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. A copy of the Safeguarding Policy is available on the school website www.cicelyhaughton.staffs.sch.uk

This position is subject to a criminal records check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) which will require you to disclose details of all unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.

By engaging in this recruitment process, shortlisted candidates consent to an online search in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education Guidance 2024.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Cicely Haughton School

• School type: Academy, ages 4 to 11
• School size: 59 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Cicely Haughton School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/cicely-haughton-school

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