Children’s Residential Support Worker

☞ Outcomes First Group

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Update day: 04-06-2024

Location: Warminster South West

Category: Other

Industry: Individual Family Services

Position: Entry level

Job type: Contract

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How would you like to be paid for 100% of your contractual hours, but only work 80%?”

Job Title: Children’s Residential Support Worker

Salary: Up to £23,318.75 per annum (plus sleep ins at £55 per night)

Location: Wiltshire

Contract: Full Time; Permanent

Hours: 43.75 per week

Essential: A full driving licence, and the Right to Work in the UK

Are you looking for a challenging, yet rewarding career where you can support children and young people to reach their full potential and gain independent lives?

If so, look no further!

Your wellbeing is at the heart of everything we do at OFG, so we’re always looking for new ways to improve everyone’s work/life balance.

We’re taking part in a trial of the 4-Day Working Week, meaning that you could be working one day less a week (or equivalent).

If the trial is a success, we’ll be rolling the 4DWW out across the Group – so there’s never been a more exciting time to join #teamOFG!

Acorn Education & Care are recruiting Children’s Care Workers to join our teams within the Wiltshire area. Your empathy and warmth will enable you to support vulnerable children aged 7-18 with social, emotional and mental health difficulties (SEMH). This means that the Children we care for may have experienced challenging or traumatic upbringings and may have difficulties with anxiety, mental health or in some cases self-harm.

Kates Bench Farm is a 4 bedded residential provision for both girls and boys aged between 10 -18 with Social Emotional Mental Health challenges (SEMH). We require a Residential Support Worker to join our team. Kates Bench Farm is set in a rural location in Wiltshire, we offer trauma informed holistic approach to care, which is designed to provide an enriching and positive environment in which the young people are able to achieve their full potential.

Kates Bench is based in Maiden Bradley, a small village outside Warminster and is within commuting distance from Bath, Salisbury, Bristol and surrounds

Who We Are Looking For
  • People with a big heart and passion to make a difference to the residents’ lives
  • Understanding that the people we care for can be challenging
  • Be patient, resilient and calming
  • Become the “go to” person for help, support and guidance with their everyday needs
  • Willingness to learn not only about the people we support, but the ins and outs of Children’s Residential Care, by working towards a funded qualification in Level 4 Apprenticeship for Children Young People and Families Practitioner (if you do not currently hold this or equivalent)
What We Can Offer
  • Funded qualifications: starting with working towards a funded Level 4 Apprenticeship for Children Young People and Families (if you do not currently hold this or equivalent)
  • Annual Leave Entitlement equivalent to 5.6 weeks per year(with options to purchase more)
  • Life Assurance
  • Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
  • “Your Wellbeing Matters” – access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks
Benefits

And market leading benefits offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform Vista that enable you to choose the package that’s right for you, including
  • A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
  • 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
  • Cycle to Work Schemes
  • Electric Car Purchase Scheme
  • Critical illness cover
How do I apply?
  • Click the apply button below NOW! Or call 01204 558 055 for more information!
  • You’ll work 80% of your contractual hours for 100% of your pay, more time for you!
We are committed to the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. All successful applicants will be subject to fully Enhanced DBS.
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Deadline: 19-07-2024

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