Residential Childcare Worker

Residential Childcare worker (Govan, Glasgow)

Are you looking to start or change your career to do something truly rewarding and inspiring - supporting a young person recovering from adversity and trauma? Care Visions has the ideal opportunity for you!

This is an exiting opportunity to be part of a new team who can create a safe, nurturing and compassionate culture for the young people we care for.

Working with young people, many of whom are high school age +, we understand that being a Residential Childcare worker is about more than just following policies and procedures. It is about being genuinely caring and making the right choices in difficult times.

Everything we do revolves around the needs of our young people, and we work hard to support our Residential Child Care Workers in their own personal commitment to be the best that they can be - to fully understand our Young People’s needs and aspirations. The work will involve:

• Providing care and guidance to vulnerable children and young people living in Residential Care.
• Working in a positive, respectful and empowering way with all young people in order to promote good relationships and encourage achievement while being a positive role model.

We pride ourselves on offering a wonderful team environment to grow and develop in where you are well supported by our management team who are very visible at all levels.

We actively welcome open communication, hard work, and drive. Care Visions has strong company values that are rooted in Respect, Compassion, Safety, and Integrity. We offer fully funded courses to our contracted staff allowing them to complete their qualifications relevant to their position and SSSC registration requirements.

Our current staff are well known in the sector and are happy to share their knowledge and support. We feel that this role is a great opportunity to become a significant person in a young individual’s life, playing an essential role in shaping their future.

Salary: £* 24,707.25 to £33,938.15p/a (includes an average of 9 sleepover payments and based on 40 hr week)* Salary dependant on qualifications

Benefits:

• Competitive pay and sleep over allowances
• Health Cash Plan
• Health and Wellbeing Platform
• Group Team Life Assurance
• Discount Site
• Workplace Pension
• Generous Annual Leave Allowance
• Enhanced Family Friendly Leave Policies
• Credit Union
• Professional Learning and Development
• Comprehensive training, including fully funded professionally recognised qualification(s) (for those not already qualified)

Essential Experience:

• Experience of working with young people in either a professional or voluntary capacity and an understanding of the principles of safeguarding and Child Protection legislation
• An understanding and or experience of Trauma informed care practices
• A valid manual driving licence (as you will have to drive young people to various activities)
• Own transport required, due to location.
• PVG check will also be undertaken if successful.
• Current legally authorised to work in the UK

To apply via indeed, click ‘Apply now’ and, in your covering message, tell us why this role is of interest to you and why you want to work to support children and young people

Closing date for submission of completed application forms is Friday 3rd May 2024 (please note interviews will start to be scheduled prior to closing date).

You can learn more about us, join one of our webinars, or complete a full application form to help advance your application, via our website:www.carevisionsresidential.co.uk

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Private dental insurance
• Private medical insurance
• Referral programme
• Store discount

Schedule:

• Overtime
• Weekend availability

Education:

• GCSE or equivalent (preferred)

Experience:

• Residential Childcare: 1 year (preferred)
• Support Environment: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

• SVQ Level 3 Children and Young people qualification (preferred)
• Manual Driving Licence (required)

Work Location: In person