Residential Worker

About the role

The basic annual salary advertised of £26,421 to £28,770 will be uplifted by £3,656 to £3,981 with guaranteed hourly enhancements. This will bring the total to £30,077 to £32,751. These amounts also do not include enhancements for weekday morning working or the sleep-in allowance.

Would you like to start or continue your career supporting Children and Young People who have a disability?

An opportunity has arisen at London Road, Harston.

London Road is a Shared and Long Term home for Children and Young People aged 8 to 18 who have a learning or physical disability and or additional health or behavioural needs.

We provide overnight shared and long term care for Children and Young People, in a safe and supportive environment whilst providing a wide variety of stimulating activities and experiences – this includes activities outside of the homes such as the Cinema, Climbing Walls, Bowling, Seaside trips as well as a wide variety of in house activities.

We reward you with:

• an Apprenticeship as a Level 4 Diploma in Children’s Residential Care
• A comprehensive induction covering your basic training and continued professional development.
• Regular supervision to guide and support you with your career progression within Social Care.
• a Minimum of 25 days annual leave entitlement, which increases with your length of service.
• Please note that this post requires a Enhanced Disclosure with Barred Lists Checks for Children and Adults from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)

The advertised salary ranges, include added hourly rate enhancements for working weekends.

• Please note we do not offer Sponsorships.
• This is a rolling campaign, and we will review applications daily so please don't wait for the closing date to apply. Candidates will be progressed shortly after they apply, and the opportunity will be filled as soon as we identify a suitable candidate, which may be before the closing date. So please don't hesitate, we want to speak to you now!

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

For more information, or to have a chat about the role, please contact Dawn Curtis at Dawn.Curtis@cambridgeshire.gov.uk. 

What will you be doing?

• By being a senior member of the team – guiding & supporting others as well as Shift Leading
• By being the allocated Key Worker for a number of Children and Young People – being responsible for completing and updating Care Plans, Risk Assessments, Impact Assessments among other documents
• Liaising with Parents, Managers in the home, and Professionals outside of the home to ensure a consistent level of care to the Young Person
• By communicating, engaging, encouraging, and supporting young people to take part in local activities and events to develop social and independence skills.
• Promoting a safe environment, where Young People can thrive and try out new experiences and have fun.
• Advocating on behalf of the Children and Young People.
• Supporting Young People to achieve positive outcomes.
• Ability to plan and organise your day.
• An understanding of technology such as Tablet Computers, Games Consoles etc which Young People use to aid their communication or express their needs.
• The ability to communicate appropriately with Children, Young People, their Families and to colleagues within the Home and the wider Council and to external agencies (such as Social Workers, Teachers etc).
• Recording observations and undertake administrative processes as needed.
• By having basic knowledge of IT packages such as Word, Excel & Outlook.

About you

• Have You Provided a Personal Statement - Required

Licence/Certification:

• Driving License (preferred)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:

• Flexible working
• Flexible Bank Holidays
• A comprehensive wellbeing package
• Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
• A comprehensive pension scheme.
• IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
• Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
• An employee recognition scheme

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off.   We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered.  We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion. 

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers

Attached documents

• Residential Worker JD.docx