Children’s Residential Child Care Worker - Children's Residential Home
Salary : £12.37 per hour (£13.50 per hour for qualified staff) plus £60 sleep in rate (2on 4off shift pattern)
Location: Southport
Do you want to make a difference to a young person’s life? Do you have a natural caring and supportive nature? Are you resilient and able to remain calm when faced with Challenging Behaviours?
Exceptional care are seeking individuals to support young people on a 1:1 or 2:1 staffing ratio, in a Residential setting in Southport.
Who are Exceptional Care?
Exceptional Care is a therapeutic children’s service providing care and support to children and young people aged 8-17, from complex backgrounds, who display challenging behaviour and EBD. The service is an independent social care organisation with multiple residential units across the whole of the North West.
Exceptional Care believes that consistency in care is paramount to children/young people with complex needs, to this end we are committed to developing and maintaining good communicative relationships with the child/young person.
Exceptional Care use a systemic therapeutic approach to support the nurture and care of our children. The systemic approach is rooted in attachment theory, and uses trauma informed approaches. We are currently introducing a comprehensive framework of assessment and outcome monitoring using the Secure Base Model.
Please note: We do not hold a sponsorship licence therefore cannot accept applications from overseas or applications without the required right to work
About the role
Benefits and Incentives:
- Comprehensive, paid induction training through our sister company Think Tank Academy
- Consistent support, training and development within our organisation
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Outstanding service employee of the year award -£3,000 voucher based award
- Employee of the month award
- Paid Blue Light care on completion of induction for the first year of employment
- Medicash
- Cycle to work program
- Long Service award - £200 for 2 years, £400 for 5 years and £600 for 10 years (all of which include increased annual leave and will be paid by a gift voucher of your choice)
- Pension Scheme
- Length of Service Holiday Scheme – Awarding up to an additional 3 days paid leave per year with continued service, above Statutory Entitlement
- Refer a Friend Scheme offering £100 for every person you successfully recommend.
- Free Gym Membership, including group classes
Successful Candidates:
• Level 3 or 4 Children and Young Peoples Workforce or equivalent – or willing to work towards
• 1 years’ experience supporting young people in a children’s residential setting
• Full UK Manual Driving Licence - preferred
Your role as a Residential Child Care Worker:
You will have the opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of children and young people, and help towards the bright future they deserve; attending to their practical, physical and emotional needs. Safeguarding each young person at all times.
You will provide a high standard of care and support, in a professional manner, to vulnerable young people, with challenging behaviour and emotional behavioural difficulties.
You will develop a good working relationship with both children and young people and other outside agencies, and be the person that each child can trust through building positive relationships.
You will be part of a team who work together to create a loving, stable environment to ensure each young person is achieving positive outcomes and learning experiences.