Children's Senior Residential Care Worker - Gloucester, United Kingdom - Flourish (Gloucestershire) Limited

Flourish (Gloucestershire) Limited

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Gloucester, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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About Flourish

We are a small but growing company that is passionate about making a positive change in children and young people's lives.

We are committed to providing the highest quality Children's Homes with a stable, caring and holistic environment, enabling all those we support to develop, grow and ultimately flourish.

Our Home and our children

We are a
Children's Home outside Gloucester and due to internal transfers and promotions, we are looking for an experienced, passionate, and enthusiastic EBD Senior Care Practitioner to work with us to build a successful, able, and supportive team.

This is a 3/4 bedded Children's Home providing residential placements for 3/4 children between the ages of 8 to 18.

Our children are incredible and will definitely keep you on your toes with no two days the same. Although it can be challenging at times, it can also be the most fun and rewarding job you will ever have A sense of humour is a must

Our children are with us for a variety of reasons and many will have experienced traumatic life events.

They need empathy, care, love, play and stability to help them flourish and move onto the next stage of their life, whether that is going home, independence, university or another placement.

_Can you help us to achieve all of this and more?_

About YOU and what Flourish can offer?
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First and foremost, you must like and enjoy being with our children This is the key requisite for all our employees._

Due to internal transfers and promotions, we are looking for experienced and qualified (level 3 Diploma for Residential Childcare or a recognised equivalent qualification) adults who are passionate about our children and are looking to work using an attachment based approach which really does put the child at the centre of all that we do.

To help you and our children we have a respected clinical psychologist who provides individual and team support to our home.

We also provide training for all staff which is predominantly face to face and includes mandatory and specialist courses (both internal and external).

We provide excellent career development and progression opportunities.

We have also invested significantly in a bespoke individualised recording system to help ensure you are free to spend as much time as possible with our children.

This also ensures that information is easily accessible and at your fingertips when needed.

We offer the following:

A friendly working environment where you are known as an individual
Opportunities for progression and development
Support, input and training from an industry leading clinical psychologist
Overtime available
Wellbeing packages
Free DBS and update service
Nest Pension
28 days holiday (increasing after 2 years service)
Refer a friend scheme
Rostered team meetings and training
Supportive and reliable on call system
Supportive and accessible managers and senior management
Company vehicles to use at work (no need to use your own car)

This is a role including shift work, so you must be able to work weekends, evenings and sleep ins.

This is made up of base salary plus 60 contracted sleepins per annum (prorated to 5 per month).

On average** our employees complete 78 sleep-ins and 310 overtime hours per year. In reality, you may do more or less than the average and this will therefore impact your OTE.

Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent

Pay:
£30,750.00-£32,840.00 per year

Benefits: