Specialist Care Workers
Job Title Specialist Care Workers
Location North Yorkshire
Job Type Permanent
Speciality Specialist Care Workers
Rates Competitive

Description

Skills and experience required: Confident, skilled, and experienced care staff in terms of caring for children with significant disabilities; autism, anxiety, significant learning disability, trauma, behaviours that challenge, self-injurious behaviours. Ideally, we need some staff who can drive (as we will look into hiring a vehicle for his use) Training requirements: We need staff who are trained in managing challenging behaviour including de-escalation and physical interventions. We need staff who are trained to administer regular and PRN medication. Numbers of staff needed: A core and consistent team of care staff, consisting of at least 15 staff to cover the shifts outlined below, to provide 24/7 care. We need staff that are committed to this assignment, to regular shifts, so that this young man has familiar faces and can build relationships, this is crucial to him given his level of needs. He needs familiarity and routine. Staffing levels needed: This young man needs 3:1 staffing during waking hours and at night he needs 2 waking night staff and 1 sleep in staff. We need a team of staff 24/7. Shift pattern: Day shift 7.30am-8pm. Night shift 7.30pm – 8am. Clear hand overs will be required between each shift. Shift leaders will need to be clearly identified.