Senior Residential
Support Worker
East Park is… Recruiting
East Park, a Grant Aided Special School in Glasgow, is a leading provider of specialist day and residential education services for children with complex needs, including Autism.
Position overview
An exciting new opportunity has arisen for a Senior Residential Support Worker at East Park. The main purpose of the role is to support the Deputy Team Leader/Team Leader by co-ordinating and supervising the Residential Support Worker Team. This role is an excellent opportunity for personal, as well as professional development and growth.
The rate of pay is from £15.87 to £16.69 per hour.
Specific Supervisory Responsibilities
- Support new staff during the induction period and provide ‘on the job’ guidance throughout
- Support volunteers/ students on placement • Facilitate ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ debriefs post-incident
- Undertake ‘return to work’ meetings with Residential Support Workers ensuring they are completed on the day of return to work
- Reconcile Accident and Incident logs daily
- Support the DTL/TL in the planning and delivery of the service, including shift coordination and delegation of key tasks
Due to the shift pattern for this post, you must be over the age of 18, or be turning 18 no later than 2 weeks from when the job advert closes.
You must disclose this information to the hiring manager at interview stage.
The Small Print
Please note CVs will not be accepted as part of your application.
East Park is an Equal Opportunities Employer, and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. We are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and creating a workplace culture in which diversity and inclusion is valued and everyone is treated with dignity and respect.
A copy of our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Policy is available on request.
A Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Enhanced Disclosure is required for all East Park posts.
If you have an additional communication support need and would like to request an application form, job description or any other information in audio format, large print or with easy read formatting tailored to your needs please e-mail recruitment@eastpark.org.uk and we would be happy to help.
JOB DESCRIPTION
You can download a copy of the Job Description
ONLINE APPLICATION FORM
You can download an application form here. Please ‘Save As’ the completed form to your device then e-mail it to recruitment@eastpark.org.uk.
If you are working on a mobile device or tablet, please click here for our online application form.
Please note that you cannot save the online version of the application form and return to finish it later.
APPLICATION GUIDANCE
Guidance on what information we require on our application forms can be downloaded here.
CLOSING DATE
Monday 21st October 2024 at 12noon
FURTHER INFORMATION
Lisa Howitt, Business and IT Support Officer
Mhairi Boyle, HR Officer
Tel: 0141 946 2050