Children's Residential Care Worker - United Kingdom - Northamptonshire Children's Trust

Description

Are you looking for a varied, challenging and rewarding position where you can help and mentor young people?
Raven House is a five bedded residential home housing young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties.

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, standby and sleep ins.

15pm early shift. 30pm late shift.
There is also an opportunity for overtime.
28days' annual leave,plus 8 Bank Holidays (pro rata for part time) and an additional 5 days,after 5 years
Local Government Pension Scheme plus immediate life cover(3 times your annual salary from day one) and ill-health protection.
Opportunity to purchaseup to 25 days annual leave
We will pay for you to complete qualifications including NVQ Level 3 or equivalent
Employee Assistance Programme- We have an employee support programme run by Health Assured, an independent, external organisation.

Health Assured is available for you and your immediate family members, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year and includes telephone counselling, legal advice, bereavement support and medical information.

Employee discountswith local and national retailers, days out, finance, health and beauty, travel and eating out plus lots more.

Flexible and family working arrangementsincluding enhanced maternity benefits
A permanent, supportive and inclusive management teamwhere you will be empowered to make good professional decisions
Free parkingon site plus heavily subsidised town centre car parking scheme
Free mealswhilst on shift

The role includes supporting with day-to-day life, schoolwork, life skills where applicable, accompanying our Young People to health, education and other appointments.

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

If you have particular skills or hobbies, such as fishing, cooking, fitness, that might enrich our young people's experience then there's an opportunity to use these.

About youYou 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 in either a professional or voluntary capacity is desirable, as is evidence of an ongoing interest and commitment to young people.

When we asked our young people that live at Raven what makes a good Residential Care Worker they said "Someone with a personality that you can have a joke with and who smiles.

You will need to provide a full employment history including any gaps since leaving full time education
About usNorthamptonshire Children's Trust is responsible for delivering Children's Services to families in the local area.

We are keen to explore new ways of working, to be more agile and adaptable in our approach to service delivery.

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