Children's Home Youth Worker - Moulton, United Kingdom - Northamptonshire Children's Trust

Northamptonshire Children's Trust
Northamptonshire Children's Trust
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Moulton, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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About the role
Are you looking for a varied, challenging and rewarding position where you can help young people?

Arnold House is a five bedded residential home housing young people with autism spectrum disorder and learning disabilities.

You will work a mixture of early and late shifts and alternative weekends with enhancements paid on top of the basic hourly rate for unsocial hours, Sunday/ Bank Holiday working and sleep ins.

Opportunities for additional earning through overtime or unsocial hours


The role includes supporting with day-to-day life, personal care, life skills where applicable and accompanying our Young People to appointments.

There are also days out shopping, Trampolining, swimming or even theme parks and holidays as we try and create positive experiences for our young people.

We are a small home, so we encourage a "family feel" where possible, this involves eating our meals together, creating positive relationships and supporting our residents.

About you
You need to be self-motivated, enthusiastic, patient and flexible amongst other things. You will find it easy to establish and build positive relationships with Young People.


Applicants must hold a full UK driving licence, as you will be accompanying our Young People to appointments or activities.


Experience of working with young people with Autism in either a professional or voluntary capacity is desirable, as is evidence of an ongoing interest and commitment to young people.

About us

Northamptonshire Children's Trust was established in November 2020 to deliver Children's Services to the newly established North and West Northants County Councils.

The Trust is wholly owned and funded but operationally independent from the Councils; this provides the organisation with unique opportunities to explore new ways of working and to be more agile and adaptable in its approach to service delivery.

We are developing a culture that allows the very highest quality of professional practice to flourish and evolve, delivering at the cutting edge of new innovation.

Our benefits

We are committed to continuous improvement, building a skilled, knowledgeable, and flexible workforce alongside promoting innovation and creativity whilst keeping children, young people and families at the heart of all we do.

We really value our workforce and offer you a great benefits package including:

  • Induction Programme
  • Extensive Learning & Development and career development opportunities
  • Sponsorship to complete qualifications including NVQ Level 3 or equivalent
  • Flexible and family working arrangements including enhanced maternity benefits
  • A permanent, supportive and inclusive management team where you will be empowered to make good professional decisions
  • Local government Pension Scheme
  • Heavily subsidised town centre car parking scheme
  • Employee Discount Scheme
  • 28 days' annual leave, plus 8 Bank Holidays (pro rata for part time) and an additional 5 days after 5 years' service
  • Opportunity to purchase up to 25 days
  • Employee Discount Scheme
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  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Monthly quality supervision
  • Meals provided on shift
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