Acorn Education are currently hiring Residential Childcare Worker in Wiltshire.
Role: Support Worker
Salary: £26,162.5 per annum per annum plus sleep-ins payments per month.
Hours: Full-time, Permanent (43.75 hours per week, varied shift patterns)
Location: Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire
How we reward you
We want our residents to have the best care possible, and therefore you'll receive an exceptional rewards package including:
- Basic salary: £26,162.5 per annum per annum
- Sleep ins paid at £55.00 per night
- Funded qualifications: starting with working towards a funded Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare qualification. (if you do not currently hold this or equivalent)
- Life Assurance
- Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
- Earn £1000 by referring a friend
- "Your Wellbeing Matters" – access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks
And market leading benefits offered through our Flexible Benefits Platform Vista that enable you to choose the package that's right for you, including:
- A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
- 100's of discount options valid in the UK and abroad, to use at high street stores, events, cinemas, restaurants and more!
- Critical illness cover
The Opportunity
Our next Children's Support Worker will be someone who has:
- A big heart and passion to make a difference to the residents' lives.
- Patience, resilience, and calmness.
Some of your duties would be as follows
- Supporting young people to appointments and activities such as shopping or trips out
- Undertaking household tasks
- Engage our young people in tasks and activities
The Location
Acorn Education are recruiting Children's Support Workers to join our teams within the Wiltshire area.
We support vulnerable young people aged 7-18 with social, emotional and mental health difficulties (SEMH). This means that the young people we support may have experienced challenging or traumatic upbringings and may have difficulties with anxiety, mental health or in some cases self-harm.
Kates Bench Farm is an accommodation with a capacity of 4, providing support for both girls and boys aged between 10 -18 with Social Emotional Mental Health challenges (SEMH). The setting is in a rural location in Wiltshire, we offer trauma informed holistic approach to support which is designed to provide an enriching and positive environment in which the young people are able to achieve their full potential.
The accommodation is based in Maiden Bradley, a small village outside Warminster and is within commuting distance from Bath, Salisbury, Bristol and surrounding towns and villages
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Acorn Education is part of Outcomes First Group. We are committed to the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and adults. All successful applicants will be subject to a free fully Enhanced DBS and reimbursement of the Update Service Fee.
We are really proud to say that in 2024, Outcomes First Group were officially certified as a ‘Great Place to Work' for the fifth year running.
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