Nights Residential Child Care Worker | North

Description | Salary £28,142 - £32,061 Per Annum | Full Time, 37 Hours Per Week | North Lancashire |

International Sponsorship – this role is not open to international sponsorship.

Nights Residential Child Care Worker

Residential Services

Location:

North Lancashire - Covering homes based in Lancaster & surrounding areas

Salary: £28,142 - £32,061

• Please note as part of this role you may be expected to work at homes across our North Lancashire Region.

(Enhanced pay rates apply for night and weekend work, including a 25% uplift for hours worked between 11pm and 8am (subject to a start time before 6am). These enhancements do not apply to shift workers. Weekend work may attract up to 33% additional pay when part of the contractual working week.)

Our Children's Residential Service is expanding, and we have exciting opportunities within X due the opening of a new home in the area.

As a Residential Service, we hold strong views and beliefs that our children deserve the very best care and support. We pride ourselves on developing positive, meaningful, and lifelong relationships with our children. With an emphasis on working creatively, we promote lots of fun activities for our children inside and outside the homes and ensure that our children and young people are supported to develop in all areas of life.

Our children are not able to live safely with their parent(s) or family, usually due to adverse childhood experiences and trauma. Residential Support Workers listen and engage our children in 1:1 work around feelings, emotions, and behaviours, and link with other professionals, such as social workers, schools, police, and health workers to ensure our children's needs are met.

Night staff have a significant and important role in our children's homes and work through the night whilst staff are asleep. Night staff are responsible for ensuring the home is secure during the night and, should the children wake, that they have a friendly face to support them and deal with any issues.

We encourage our children to participate and get involved in all decisions, and recruitment is no different. It is really important to us that any worker joining the Residential team has the skills, abilities, and outlook that our children tell us they need from us.

• I would like someone like me who has time to listen instead of being behind a locked door.
• I would like someone who listens to me but also takes action and who I can have a laugh with – they also need to be able to make nice food.
• I would like someone who spends time with me.

We have an ambitious, confident, and motivated management team who are experienced, supportive, and keen to help you learn and grow. We have over 50 free courses for you to learn new things, and even have funded qualifications we can support you with obtaining, up to degree level, should this be something that interests you.

We have a detailed induction programme specifically designed to cover all elements of the role, so that you have all the tools and knowledge ready to get going. For all permanent staff, we will provide a monthly 1:1 reflective space with managers, a comprehensive Employee Support Offer, and lots of opportunity to network with other professionals that support children.

As an organisation, we offer a wide range of staff benefits including access to our "Blues and Twos Credit" Union, Membership of Blue Light Card, and various discounts at local retailers.

• Passion:
  Thinking creatively to ensure that our children are supported to achieve their aspirations (no matter how big or small) will need to be top of your list! We are looking for passionate practitioners (irrelevant of length of experience) who truly care and want to make a difference to children, young people, and families.
• Challenge:
  Some days will be tough, for our children, for you, and for your colleagues - we're after someone who is dedicated and committed, and who will always go that extra mile for our children (even on the bad days). Working as part of a close professional team is really…