Cluster Residential Child Care Worker
Location: Cumnock, East Ayrshire, United Kingdom, KA18
Type: Permanent, Full time
Posted: Friday, March 14, 2025
If you enjoy working with children and have the resilience to deal with challenging behaviours while still being able to offer a caring and supportive therapeutic approach, then we would love to hear from you!
Pebbles Care has an exciting opportunity for you to collaborate with our established team and become an integral part of our children's lives. Your role may vary each working day across a small cluster of homes, with various shift patterns to support holiday or training cover. Our unique cluster roles allow you to enhance your development and enrich your experience by offering varied work and the opportunity to work across diverse teams.
Your responsibilities include:
1. Daily home life, such as driving our children to and from school, appointments, and visits (a full UK manual driving license is essential).
2. Teaching valuable life skills, including meal preparation and household chores.
3. Creating lasting memories through engaging activities, outings, and holidays.
Your role as a Cluster Residential Child Care Worker
You will be employed full-time as a dedicated team member, averaging 56.4 hours per week, including sleep hours. Working collaboratively with your team on shift across multiple locations in a cluster of homes within a short journey of each other, you will provide support tailored to the young person's needs, either one-to-one or two-to-one.
Your training will begin on day one with our comprehensive induction and shadow shifts. During these, you will learn about the Pebbles Way and our therapeutic care model, supported by your manager and our in-house Learning and Development team.
What we offer you:
* A starting salary of £34,719.00 to £36,248.00 per annum, pro rata, depending on experience.
* 5.6 weeks annual leave per annum (this will be pro-rata for part-time contracts).
* Support to receive 100% funding for your Level 3 SVQ /NVQ qualification in Residential Child Care.
* Auto-enrolment into our salary sacrifice pension scheme (Scottish Widows).
* A cash-back health care plan via Medicash allows you to claim for dental and optical treatments, discounted gym memberships, 24/7 access to a GP, free access to counselling and much more.
* Meals are provided during your shift.
Essential qualities that we look for include:
* A flexible approach to your work pattern.
* Dedication to safeguarding our children and young individuals.
* A strong desire to obtain qualifications and continue your personal development.
* Confident and resilient nature.
* A valid, full UK driver's license is required.
* A kind and supportive nature.
* Patience and the ability to cultivate non-judgmental relationships.
* An engaged and attentive listener.
* A creative ability to have fun and learn new skills.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
* Proficient IT skills and experience in using Microsoft packages.
Desirable Qualities include:
* Up to 12 months experience working with children or young adults.
* Working towards, or a desire to obtain, SCQF Level 7 or Level 3 Diploma relevant to Children and Young People's Residential workforce.
Are you ready to join our family?
Please complete our online application form. If you would like to discuss the role further with our team, please email recruitment@pebblescare.com.
Please note that due to the fast-paced nature of our recruitment process, shortlisting will be ongoing, and we may choose to end the recruitment campaign if a suitable candidate is identified before the end date.
#J-18808-Ljbffr