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Residential Care Worker

Job details
Posting date: 23 April 2025
Salary: £12.54 to £13.10 per hour
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 23 May 2025
Location: SK13 7PR
Remote working: On-site only
Company: Ambitious recruitment &healthcare
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: RCW001

Summary

Calling all residential children's care workers. Do you share a passion for improving the lives of young people; providing them with the best possible experiences; and giving them the greatest opportunities to thrive when they leave the safety of care? Do you want to learn, grow, and progress with a company that is committed to doing its best for its young people and its staff? Then read on.

Our client is interested in talking to individuals looking for a move within the children’s residential care sector, as well as people with relevant transferrable skills and experience. There is availability for full-time roles available for Support Workers and Senior Support Workers to join the teams in three beautiful Good and Outstanding homes in an idyllic Peak District setting.

What the client offers:

£12.54 - £13.10 per hour, depending on experience.
£70.50 per sleep-in, typically 6-8 nights per month.
28 – 35 days' holiday.
Fully funded NVQs and apprenticeships.
Company Pension.
Loyalty & referral bonuses, from £50 - £500.
Comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme, perks & discounts.

They (the client) employs people not paper!

Their long-standing, respected and high-quality residential care and on-site education enables them to nurture, support and engage young people to help them to overcome disadvantage. They transform the lives of staff too. You bring the right attitudes and instincts, show ambition, enthusiasm, resilience, and empathy, and they’ll train and mentor you, as you mentor the young people in your care, developing your technical skills and confidence, and helping you to build a genuinely rewarding career; the likes of which other employers can’t match.

Some of our best candidates bring a variety of transferable skills and valuable life experiences to their roles, making them excellent recruits for the client's team. Their knowledge of appropriate boundaries and innate ability to make connections with young people are the ideal foundation for our thorough training on the more technical aspects of our work. They have achieved consistently successful outcomes with young people because they employ a diverse workforce that can empathise with the cultures they come from and the issues they face. People who have learned important lessons from the school of life often have the greatest impact on vulnerable children and young people who have already experienced significant challenges and trauma.

Key aspects of children's residential care work:

- Ensuring each young person is safe and cared for effectively, addressing care, education, social, emotional, cultural, therapeutic and health needs.
- Exercising appropriate control over children and young people at all times
Working in partnership with parents, families, carers, and other professionals to advocate for, safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people.
- Covering various shifts including early mornings, late evenings, and sleep-ins, on weekdays, weekends, and Bank Holidays, within the Homes and on residential trips.
- Promoting an organisational culture which values every team member’s contribution and is intolerant of discrimination in any form.
- Maintaining the highest levels of confidentiality.

Essential Skills

- Some previous experience working in children's residential care settings (or similar) is desired.
- Senior roles require level 3/4 in residential Childcare (or equivalents).
- Applicants must be able to commit to full-time (40 hours/week) working, including sleep-ins and, potentially, short residential trips away with young people.
- Applications can only be considered from candidates able to drive manual vehicles.
- All the young people we look after are equally entitled to have their needs met in a safe, fair, respectful, and balanced way. All staff are responsible for safeguarding and promoting equal opportunities and for challenging any behaviour or practice that discriminates against any young person or colleague.
- Job offers and continued employment are conditional upon stringent pre-employment checks, thorough referencing, and the maintenance of Enhanced DBS clearance.

Find out more by getting in contact with us via Phone/ Mobile: +447537144375.