Residential Childrens Care Worker inCranleigh inCranleigh PUBLISHED 30 JUL 2024

Location: Cranleigh,Surrey

Salary: A GBP 22,697 : A GBP 23,5per annum

Hours: 37 hours per week, 4:week shift pattern including alternate weekends and undertake sleep in duties as required.

St Josephs are a non:maintained specialist school, college and childrens home working with some of the UKs most complex and vulnerable children and young people. They are looking for dedicated care workers to join their team on a permanent basis.

The Role

You will support young people with complex learning disabilities, severe social communication and behavioural issues. This role gives you the opportunity to make a real difference to their lives. With your compassion, guidance and training, you will watch them grow, develop and support them towards adulthood.

The care team support their young people outside of school hours and also provide cover in the classroom enabling their education staff to take their breaks. You will support their students to develop their life skills; assisting with their personal care, choosing and preparing their meals, shopping, money handling and accompanying activities on and off site. During the school holidays their young people really enjoy trips off site, fully supported by their team. Over the summer the team have been busy, including trips to the beach and funfair, adventure parks, meals out, inclusive cycling sessions and Airhop.

You will have the ongoing support of a skilled and dedicated team. Comprehensive training and mentoring includes leaning about safeguarding, autism and positive behaviour support. They will equip you with the skills and confidence to support their young people, offer them boundaries and choices and provide safe and effective physical intervention when needed.

You will need to be able to work 37 hours per week, on a 4:week shift pattern including alternate weekends and undertake sleep in duties as required (and will be paid the appropriate rate for sleep:in shifts). We are also looking for staff interested in only working weekends and part:time may be considered.


Skills And Qualifications


You dont need experience, you need:

• Empathy
• Enthusiasm
• Compassion
• Mental, physical and emotional resilience
• The drive to make a real difference to the lives of the most complex children and vulnerable young people.
  
  

All staff working for the Trust need to possess physical and mental resilience. You will progress to a Senior Care Worker level after 2 years working on the care team and completion of a QCF Level 3 in Residential Childcare (subject to satisfactory progression and appraisal), earning A GBP 22,772 : A GBP 25,. If recruited, you will be required to complete Team Teach positive behaviour support training as part of your induction before employment.


Benefits

• **A GBP 1,000 Retention bonus : A GBP 250 after 1 month, A GBP 250 after 1 year, A GBP 500 after 18 months at Trust (subject to tax and NI)
• Life Insurance and Medical cashplan commencing after a month at Trust
• Team Teach positive behaviour support training, refreshed every two years, with ongoing assistance from on site Team Teach tutors within their Inclusion Team
• Personalised approach to CPD, including training courses paid for by the Trust and regular 1:1 line management support with online appraisals
• Free hot lunch supplied by their in:house catering team during term time
• Ample on:site parking
• Employee assistance service (confidential, professional wellbeing and counselling 24/7 service for you and your family members)
• Excellent network of support across the organisation including a team of Adult Mental Health First Aid and Occupational Health
• Cranleigh Leisure Centre discount on gym, swim and fitness classes
• Based on a beautiful 23 acre site in a semi:rural area on the edge of the Surrey Hills (own transport is desirable due to semi:rural location)
  
  

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for this rep