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Residential Children's Home Support Worker

FRONTrunner Recruitment Ltd.
Posted 6 hours ago, valid for 17 days
Location

Prescot, Merseyside L35 1QA

Contract type

Full Time

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  • This position offers a chance to work as a Children’s Home Residential Support Worker in Widnes, focusing on providing care for children aged 8-16 with challenging behavior.
  • Candidates should have experience working in a residential children's home and ideally hold an NVQ level 3 Diploma for the Children and Young People's Workforce.
  • The salary is £14.09 per hour for those with the level 3 qualification, and £12.65 for those without, with additional pay for sleep-ins and holidays.
  • The role involves working 2 full days and nights followed by 4 days and nights off, with a total of 224 hours of holiday per year.
  • Applicants must have a full UK driving license and experience with children who have challenging behavior, with a preference for those living near Widnes.

A great opportunity to work with an established and growing care company providing residential live in support for children and teenagers with challenging behaviour. They are always growing and take pride in the support they give the children - they believe that setting them up with the life skills now will help them turn into well rounded members of the community. Their staff are always on hand to provide emotional support as well as helping to teach and develop the children for the future.

They are recruiting for a Children’s Home Residential Support Worker, you will be:-

  • Based in a 2 to 1 children’s home in Widnes
  • Working 2 full days and nights and then having 4 days and nights off
  • Working with children from the ages of 8-16
  • Supporting the child with making them breakfast, helping getting them dressed and to school, putting on washing, pick up’s from school, cooking dinner, getting them bathed and to bed
  • Making sure they are supported emotionally and aiding their learning and development to give them a stable and loving environment

Benefits and salary of a Children’s Home Support Worker

  • £14.09 if you have your Level 3, £12.65 if you don’t have it but would like to do it
  • £60 per sleep in
  • 224 hours holiday per year - you get an extra 2 days when you have been there 2 years
  • Bank holidays paid at x1.5
  • Private health care
  • A great support network with further training and development
  • Claim petrol back for 40p per mile

Qualifications/Experience/Requirements to be a Support Worker:-

  • Living in or around the Widnes area
  • You must have a full UK driving licence and ideally your own vehicle but there is a house car you will have access to
  • NVQ level 3 Diploma for the Children and Young People's Workforce would be very beneficial but would consider someone without it that has experience working in a residential children’s home
  • You have to have experience working with children that have challenging behaviour in some sort of setting

For an immediate interview please Click Apply and speak with Adam Southam.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.