Children's Residential Care Worker
- Location: Preston
- Contract: Full Time
- Role Type: Temp to Perm ( 12 week handover)
- Working hours per week: 40
- Salary from £11.92 per hr (£24,793)
- DBS on the update service
School Staffing Solutions are looking for Children's Residential Care Workers who will place young people are the centre of everything they do. As a Children's Residential Care Worker you will be supporting young people who live on site at a residential school.
As the new Residential Care Worker, you will be emotionally strong and driven to make a difference day to day. Most importantly, you will get to really understand our children and their backgrounds, making sure that their needs are at the centre of everything we do. You will be approachable and detail focused, ensuring that our children's safety is assured at all times, and that all protocols and regulations are fully adhered to.
This role will be a temp to perm so initally you wil be payrolled through the aency an then transfer onto a contract.
Do you have what it takes to encourage and help our children to live independently and guide and teach them with your own life experiences? To do this we believe you will need empathy, compassion, resilience and positive parenting skills.
The working day can be unpredictable and you could find yourself spending the morning organising activities and the afternoon providing 1:1 support.
We are looking for enthusiastic, energetic, flexible and caring people to join our team across Preston and surrounding areas to continue improving the lives of the young people within our care.
What's on offer:
- Rate of Pay: £11.92-£12.38 per hour dependent on experience with a £30.00 additional sleep in rate
- Training and Development Plans to meet your individual needs including NVQs and Career progression opportunities
- 28 Days Holiday inclusive of Bank Holidays and rising with service
- Paid Sickness Leave
- Additional; Overtime/On-Call/Sleep-in/Disturbance Rates
- Casual Dress Code
- Company Pension
- Simply Health (Linked to Service)
- Days out and Activity days off site
- There is also the companies very own Management Development Programme to take those interested from Support Worker to Registered Manager and beyond
As a Children's Residential Care Worker, you will be involved in all aspects of their everyday lives and the positive impact you will have is immeasurable.
Shift Pattern: 16-24 Hour (including Sleep-in) on a one on two off or two on four off basis.
Of-course - no day is the same here at the Cambian Group, however here is what a day in the life of one of our Children Residential Care Workers could look like:
The young people in our care range between the ages of 8-18 years of age and have a range of behavioural and emotional needs.
Duties:
- Delivering the highest quality care for our children
- Offering guidance, support and structure to their everyday lives
- Supporting the young people to engage and access education
- Promoting a healthy life style and positive living choices
- Accessing clinically led training to improve your skills and develop practise
- Household duties
- Record keeping and report writing
- Days out (e.g. social events, shopping, cinema, swimming)
- Contacts, visit, key work meeting and therapy sessions
- Providing transport for the young people to access different provisions
About you:
******Requirements: MUST hold a Full UK Driving Licence
- Desirable but not essential to hold: NVQ Level 3 in Residential Childcare
- Previous experience working in a therapeutic environment or therapeutic qualifications;
- Experience supporting and leading educational engagement
- Previous leadership skills and qualifications.
- GCSE pass in Maths and English
Please send you cv to or apply today and we will be in touch to discuss further.