New College Worcester is a residential school and college for children and young people aged 11 to 19 who are blind or vision impaired. Every student at NCW has a tailored programme, carefully planned and delivered to meet need according to their own EHCP in three key areas: academic achievement, independent living skills and involvement in extracurricular activities at the College and in the community.

As a Residential Site Lead, you will manage our collaborative care team of Residential Key Workers to provide a high standard of care to our students. You will be responsible for fostering a positive environment for the delivery of the waking day school curriculum and ensuring high quality documentation. You will be supervising and supporting your team to work with students in a proficient and sensitive manner that will enhance both their academic and social development.

Your day to day duties will include:

• Working flexibly across the site and the residential houses to manage the delivery of a comprehensive care programme appropriate to the individual students.
• Safeguarding and promoting the health and welfare of the students, ensuring that they are cared for and supported in the residential house by a team of professional Care staff, following the guidelines as laid down by legislation, the current National Minimum Care Standards for Residential Special Schools, professional care practice and NCW's policies and procedures.
• Line managing the Residential Key Workers, setting objectives, monitoring performance, completing regular supervisions and appraisals, and ensuring accurate and professional records are kept in accordance with College policies. Collaborating with College and senior Care staff to allocate Key Workers to students, ensuring this aligns with College structures.
• Being responsible for quality assuring Care plans, Risk Assessments, Key working and Support Session notes, and other paperwork as may be directed, to a high standard in accordance with published quality assurance deadlines. Highlighting issues to senior Care management.
• Being responsible for Risk Assessments for all activities and writing the Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans for each student.
• Working in collaboration with the College to manage the delivery of the waking day curriculum and liaising with education staff over student progress. The waking day curriculum includes developing students' independent living skills, involving amongst others: skills training in personal hygiene, nutrition and self-catering, general skills required in managing money and personal safety. It also includes support with mobility, homework and developing effective morning and evening routines.
• Managing, co-ordinating and participating in the delivery of activities both on and off the College campus in evenings and weekends, and providing and encouraging access to a range of leisure pursuits and to new opportunities beyond the NCW community.
• Liaising with Care and Education staff, other College staff, parents and external partners and agencies in a professional manner in order to achieve a comprehensive approach to the students' development. Taking responsibility for creating and developing strong links between home and College and maintaining contact with parents through face to face or online meetings, email and telephone.
• Supporting the student in coming to terms with the effect of vision and other impairments, and managing Care staff to be able to effectively achieve this outcome. Ensuring trusting relationships are developed between them, their staff and students, whilst respecting professional boundaries.

In order to be successful in this role you will need:

Essential:

• Level 3 qualification in Residential Childcare or willingness to obtain this qualification within two years.
• Previous supervisory experience.
• Experience of working with children and young people
• GCSE Grade C in English and Maths, or equivalent.
• Ability to organise time effectively, create work schedules, prioritise workload and balance the student facing and administration work requirements in accordance with the set deadlines
• Ability to communicate in a professional manner, being effective both verbally and in writing. To be able to adapt style to suit the audience - for example, writing clear and concise correspondence and reports.
• Able to take responsibility for own actions and make decisions. To be able to judge when it is appropriate to refer matters to others.
• Ability to quickly build rapport, respond in an empathetic manner and easily establish appropriate relationships with students, their parents and carers and other staff.

Desirable:

• Relevant professional qualifications.
• Experience of working with blind and vision impaired children.
• Experience of working with children from various ethnic backgrounds.

The benefits of working at New College Worcester include:

• Working in an inspiring and rewarding place alongside our exceptional students
• Industry standard Pension scheme
• Free use of the College swimming pool
• Free use of the state-of-the-art fitness facilities in our multigym Fit4Purpose
• Continual professional development and training opportunities
• Free on-site parking
• Great value on-site catering facilities
• Staff wellbeing package
• New College Worcester is set in extensive grounds which overlook the Malvern Hills

Weekend shift pattern:

Day	Hours	Break	Sleep in
Friday	2pm - 11pm	30 minutes	TBD*
Saturday	7am - 11pm	4 hours	TBD*
Sunday	7am - 11pm	4 hours	TBD*
Monday	7am - 9am	None	TBD*

*Between 1-3 sleeps in per week (to be discussed at interview). Additional payment for sleeping in (£40.76 each)

There are 'home weekends' during the academic year – approximately six (one every three weeks) whereby all the students and staff go home from Friday-Sunday. The students return from 4pm on Sunday and you will be required to return ahead of then to welcome them back.

• Please view the NCW Safeguarding Statement document
• Please view the Job Description and Person Specification Residential Key Worker Weekends document