current job vacancies

Key responsibilities will include

• Ability to successfully care for Looked After Children in a residential childcare environment
• General housekeeping and preparing food
• Good level of IT skills to complete the necessary paperwork
• Excellent communication skills
• The ability to prioritise and multitask
• Display professionalism and liaise with local professionals and local authorities regularly
• Display empathy and understanding when liaising with families
• Proactivity and able to use initiative
• Key working skills
• Ability to engage with children with emotional, behavioural and psychological difficulties as a result of adverse childhood experiences, mental health issues, domestic abuse, substance misuse, sexual abuse and learning difficulties
• Affectively supporting children in the community, cinema trips, swimming, theme parks, supported shopping etc.

Training and Qualifications:

•  Childcare: 1 year (required)
• Have or be willing to work towards a Level 4 Diploma in Residential Childcare
• Mandatory training modules will be provided
• Knowledge of the Children’s Homes Regulations 2015 and OFSTED Regulation is desirable but not essential
• Minimum required working age of 21 years
• Experience of working in a similar setting is desirable however, not essential

Work Schedule:

• Full-time, Part-time, Permanent
• Majority of shifts available are 07:30-15:30 and 14:30-22:30 between Monday-Sunday (including some bank holidays). 
• Possible sleep-in required and paid additionally

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company pension
• Free enrolment on a Level 4 Diploma
• Company pool cars
• Meals provided on shift
• Satisfactory annual leave entitlement
• Opportunities for overtime

Salary:

£24,000 per year (based on full time 40hrs per week) pro rata

Reference ID: SW/CH

Key responsibilities will include

• Ability to successfully care for Looked After Children in a residential childcare environment
• General housekeeping and preparing food
• Good level of IT skills to complete the necessary paperwork
• Excellent communication skills
• The ability to prioritise and multitask
• Display professionalism and liaise with local professionals and local authorities regularly
• Display empathy and understanding when liaising with families
• Proactivity and able to use initiative
• Key working skills
• Ability to engage with children with emotional, behavioural and psychological difficulties as a result of adverse childhood experiences, mental health issues, domestic abuse, substance misuse, sexual abuse and learning difficulties

Training and Qualifications:

• Childcare: 1 year (required)
• Have or be willing to work towards a Level 4 Diploma in Residential Child Care.
• Mandatory training modules will be provided
• Knowledge of the Children’s Homes Regulations 2015 and OFSTED Regulation is desirable but not essential
• Minimum required working age of 21 years
• Experience of working in a similar setting is desirable however, not essential

Work Schedule:

• Full-time, Permanent
• You will be required to work on a rolling rota with a fixed shift pattern of two nights on, two nights off. You will start at 21:00 PM and finish at 08:00 AM and receive regular days off. Our rotas are from Monday-Sunday and include bank holidays.

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company pension
• Free enrolment on a Level 4 Diploma
• Company pool cars
• Meals provided on shift
• Satisfactory annual leave entitlement
• Opportunities for overtime

Salary: 

£13 per hour

Reference ID: RCW/CH