Senior Children’s Residential Care Worker
- Hollingworth, Greater Manchester
- £30,000-33,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Ensuring each young person is safe and cared for effectively, addressing care, education, social, emotional, cultural, therapeutic and health needs.
- Exercising appropriate control over children and young people at the time.
- Leading, supervising and supporting staff members at junior levels as they provide round the clock and support that is consistent with the Home’s quality standards and statement of purpose.
- Assisting the home’s Management Team in ensuring that policies, procedures and record keeping measures are adhered to, and resources are deployed effectively and efficiently.
- Covering carious shifts including early mornings, late evenings, and sleep ins, on weekdays, weekends, and bank holidays, within the homes and on residential trips.
- Liaising with senior management and external parties such as Local Authorities, schools, health, and other professionals to advocate for, safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people, helping to achieve best outcomes for our residents.
- Promoting an organisational culture which values team members contribution and is intolerant in any form.
- Maintaining the highest level or confidentiality.
- £66 per sleep-in, typically 6 nights per month.
- 30 – 35 days’ holiday.
- Fully funded NVQs and apprenticeships.
- Company Pension.
- Loyalty & referral bonuses, from £50 – £500.
- Comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme, perks & discounts.
- Previous experience working in children’s residential care settings (or similar) is required.
- Demonstrable experience leading shifts/teams.
- Senior roles require level 3/4 in residential Childcare (or equivalents).
- Applicants must be able to commit to full-time (40 hours/week) working, including sleep-ins and, potentially, short residential trips away with young people.
- Applications can only be considered from candidates able to drive manual vehicles.
- All the young people we look after are equally entitled to have their needs met in a safe, fair, respectful, and balanced way. All staff are responsible for safeguarding and promoting equal opportunities and for challenging any behaviour or practice that discriminates against any young person or colleague.
- Job offers and continued employment are conditional upon stringent pre-employment checks, thorough referencing, and the maintenance of Enhanced DBS clearance.
This Senior Residential Care Worker job is advertised by Sam Bellotti; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.