Casual Residential Child Care Worker
Job description
Casual Residential Child Care Social Worker | £12.47 per hour | Casual various hours to suit
Note: Pay award is pending.
Who are we …
Our Children's Residential Service are expanding with the introduction of four new children's homes and an Adolescent Support Unit over the next two years. This means that we have a number of exciting opportunities for a number of different vacancies across Lancashire – Heysham, Lancaster, Preston, Chorley, Bamber Bridge, Accrington, Clitheroe, Burnley, Great Harwood, and Skelmersdale.
As a Residential Service we hold very strong views and beliefs that our children deserve the very best care and support that we can offer. We pride ourselves in 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 person are supported to develop in all areas of life
Could you work in a children's homes?
As a Residential Child Care Worker , you would work from a children's home where children and young people aged between 11 years and 17 years live. Residential Child Care Workers eat and sleep at the home with the children and young people and undertake basic household tasks – cleaning, cooking, shopping.
Our children are not able to live safely with their parent(s) or family and this is usually due to adverse childhood experience and trauma. Residential Child Care 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
What our children want from you
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"
What you can expect from us
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.
What we are looking for…
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 important and you will need to be a team player to get through those tough times.
Forward thinking – We are an expanding service with big ideas and aspirational views. We are looking for workers who can join our team and join us on this exciting journey, making contributions to help shape and inform the future of the service for our children
Values – We are looking for someone who has values aligned to those that are integral to our service and our organisation - supportive, innovative, respectful and collaborative
Are you interested?
We would love to hear from anyone who has a passion for building relationships with children and supporting them to achieve the best possible outcomes and want to join our team.
There are lots of ways to register your interest and find out more information
Recruitment event
We are hosting a recruitment event at Preston North End Football Club, Deepdale, Preston, PR1 6RU on 20 th April 2023 from 9am – 7pm. Everybody is welcome to drop in at any point during these times and no appointment is needed. This is an opportunity to meet the team and ask any questions you may have. There will also be option to undertake preliminary employment checks and have an interview on the day – you could walk out with a provisional offer of a job!
Chat with a residential childcare worker
To get a feel for the "day in the life" of a residential childcare worker, virtual room's have been created for anyone interested to drop in on the following dates/times
11 April 2023 at 10am
12 April 2023 at 4pm
14 April 2023 at 2pm
If you would like to access any of the virtual room's, please email [email protected]
Informal discussion
You are welcome to contact any one of our Residential Senior Managers to discuss the role(s) in greater detail and gain more information about the service. They can be contacted either by email or phone – details below
North – Mike Nunn, Senior Manager – [email protected] – 01772 533628
Central – John Simpson – [email protected] – 01772 532087
East – Gwen Monk – [email protected] – 01772 538836
Applying
To apply for a post, you can apply direct from here.
Please ensure you have uploaded and attached your supporting statement to evidence how you meet the criteria for the role. The panel may be unable to shortlist you for interview without this evidence.
Closing Dates:
Sunday 16 April 2023 23:59 Interviews scheduled: 26 April 2023
Sunday 07 May 2023 23:59 Interviews scheduled: 17 May 2023
Sunday 28 May 2023 23:59 Interviews scheduled: 07 June 2023
Sunday 18 June 2023 23:59 Interviews scheduled: 28 June 2023
Sunday 09 July 2023 23:59 Interviews scheduled: 19 July 2023
Please ensure you have uploaded and attached your supporting statement to evidence how you meet the criteria for the role. The panel may be unable to shortlist you for interview without this evidence.
The post you are applying for is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013) . If successful you will be required to apply to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) for a 'disclosure'. Further information can be found on the 'Our Recruitment Process' tab.
In return Lancashire County Council offers a range of benefits, which can be found on LCC Vacancies website.
We reserve the right to close down a vacancy early, before the closing date, if we receive sufficient applications.
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