Columbo Road Residential Children’s Home
Position: Residential Childcare Worker
Grade: 5
Salary: £30,060 - £32,654 per annum, plus a 10% alternating shift allowance and shift work following a rota pattern including evenings, weekends, and sleep ins (payable at £40.76 per sleep in).
Visa sponsorship: We welcome applications from all nationalities; however, successful candidates must, by the commencement of employment, have the right to work in the UK.
Interview Date: 8th January 2024
We are recruiting to one of our Children’s Homes and are looking for suitably skilled, experienced and enthusiastic individuals to join an established team of Residential Child Care Workers.
Children’s Homes by their nature can provide both challenges and opportunities and the successful candidate will need to demonstrate resilience, motivation and creativity to meet the needs of our young people.
The role requires shift working 365 days per year, including evenings, weekends, bank holidays, and sleep ins.
For an informal discussion, please contact Michael More on 0191 5484185.
These posts are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore will be subject to an Enhanced DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check. You must be over 21 to comply with the Children’s Homes Regulations.
Hear from some of our Residential Childcare Workers, who tell us more about what the role involves and what they like most about working in our Children's Homes.
Together for Children is committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse local communities that we support across Sunderland. We are striving to build an inclusive workplace culture where all employees feel valued, and diversity is celebrated by everyone.
As part of this commitment, we work collaboratively with our established employee networks: Accessibility Network, LGBTQ+ Network, Racial Equality Network and Armed Forces Network.
We welcome and encourage job applications from candidates regardless of their age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, belief or race, and background.
As well as an attractive and competitive salary, other benefits of working for Together for Children include agile working arrangements, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and a flexi-time scheme. A comprehensive health and wellbeing programme is also on offer to all employees.
If you have a disability, please do reach out to our Accessibility Network Chair to hear how we can support you during the recruitment process and if you are successful, in the workplace.
Together for Children have a fostering friendly People policy for all foster carers in their employment (regardless of their fostering service). This includes offering foster carers flexible working and paid time off for training and settling a new child into their home.
As a Fostering Friendly employer, Together for Children also help promote Foster Care Fortnight, our annual campaign to raise the profile of fostering and encourage people to consider becoming foster carers and offer children the care they need - Foster with North East.
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