Residential Support Worker in the Netherlands

For the Protected Living location Manege in Gouda, we are looking for a new residential support worker colleague. This concerns a position of 32 hours per week. The position is available immediately.

As a residential support worker, you guide and support clients based on individual support plans. These are drawn up with the residents and personal support workers. In the role of residential support worker, you are responsible for the implementation of these plans and you signal changes. Where necessary, you provide practical help with daily activities such as doing groceries together, cooking, and cleaning the home. You also support with ADL when necessary. Additionally, you are a group leader during collective group moments, such as mealtimes, where you ensure structure and a pleasant mutual atmosphere. You also contribute to administration and reporting. You are the first point of contact for a number of residents regarding extra care questions and contact moments. The basis is the bond of trust that you build with clients. The guidance of clients is the priority, but there is also plenty of room to shape the work together with the team. Each team member is a designated officer for a subject within the residential location, where you provide the content for it. In this position, you work in alternating day, evening, and weekend shifts.

Manege is a protected living form for 25 residents with social and/or psychological vulnerabilities. All residents have their own room, spread across three floors. The average age of our residents is 55 years. In our care, account must be taken of the aging resident. The issues of residents are diverse. The majority of our residents suffer from schizophrenia. People with anxiety and mood disorders, forms of autism, and low-level functioning also live there. The team consists of residential support workers, personal support workers, sleep-in staff, activity coordinators, cooks, domestic staff, and volunteers.

Kwintes supports people with a psychiatric or psychosocial vulnerability. We offer our clients professional help with living, working, and learning, to lead as independent a life as possible. You can find us in many different places in the center of the country; from Flevoland to Gouda. Recovery is a meaningful concept in the support that Kwintes offers. Employees of Kwintes rely on the recovery capacity of clients and support this process. We experience connection with our 2000 colleagues and together we commit ourselves every day to helping people. At Kwintes, we start from what is possible, even when it comes to your career. We work from trust and offer you a job with meaning, the space to be yourself, and to get more out of yourself. Do you also see more in people?

• At least a completed relevant MBO level 4 education.

• Preferably work experience within a protected living form.

• Knowledge of psychopathology and psychosocial issues.

• You can collaborate well in a team and react adequately in stressful situations.

• You are flexible and willing to work varying shifts and evening shifts.

• You have respect for the limitations and possibilities of the target group, but also know how to set boundaries.

• Building and maintaining relationships comes naturally to you.

• A job in which you make a difference every day!

• A good salary between € 2.888,- and € 3.917,- based on 36 hours (CAO GGZ, FWG 40).

• Your first contract is a temporary contract. If we are happy with each other, your next contract will be for an indefinite period.

• In addition to the statutory 8% holiday allowance, you will receive a year-end bonus of 8.33%, and at Kwintes, we offer a balance budget of €1000 gross per year pro rata to your employment.

• An excellent pension scheme in which Kwintes contributes 50% and the possibility to lease a new (electric) bicycle.

• A wide range of education, training, and coaching; both through our Learning & Development department and via external parties.

Enthusiastic? We look forward to your response via our website. Within a few working days, you will receive an initial response from us.
Would rather have more information first? Feel free to contact the recruiters via wens@kwintes.nl. They would love to tell you more!
The procedure consists of 2 interviews; If applicable, a shadowing moment and the employment conditions interview will follow. Upon employment, we request a VOG (certificate of good conduct). This vacancy is posted internally and externally. In the event of equal suitability, the internal candidate has priority.
Nice position, right? We therefore expect to fill this ourselves, and we find recruitment agencies to be a waste of your and our time.