Full time 40 Hour contract or Part time positions available.

Full time salary £24500 - £28500 depending on relevant qualifications.

The above rates do not include overtime or yearly bonuses.

*£500* welcome bonus after 3 months of employment, *£250* bonus through our Refer a Friend Scheme.

Benefits

We offer fantastic benefits for our valued employees. These include;

Full Time and Part Time Contracts.
Competitive Rates of Pay.
Enhanced Overtime rates at Christmas and New Year.
Generous Annual Leave Allowance which increases after 3 years of service.
Free PVG check.
Workplace Pension Scheme.
Funded professionally recognised Qualification Opportunities for those not already qualified.
Paid Induction and Training.
Access to 10 therapy sessions with an outsources therapist.
£500 welcome bonus after 3 months.
Additional £250 welcome bonus if referred by a friend.
£250 refer a friend bonus scheme.
Christmas bonus.
Birthday bonus.
Career and promotion opportunities.
Access to Blue Light Card Scheme offering significant high street savings

Our Residential Child Care Workers are responsible for the day-to-day health and wellbeing for all of the young people within Orchard Cottage. You must be able to work as part of a team with colleagues and other professionals, to offer a comprehensive service that meets the physical, social, emotional, mental health and care needs of the vulnerable children and young people within our home.

Duties will include actively and effectively safeguarding and promoting the rights of children and young people, teaching life skills and coping strategies, building confidence, self-esteem and resilience, accompanying them to and from education, facilitating family time, creating a warm, comforting and homely environment including all daily household tasks and encouraging participation in local activities and hobbies. The role also involves the monitoring, recording and completion of all relevant paperwork involved with the young person’s care accurately.

You should be confident in providing exceptional care and support while being able to demonstrate a sound value base. You will be motivated, empathetic and understanding, able to establish and build on nurturing meaningful relationships which will enable you to fully understand the young persons views, wishes and feelings to allow us to effectively advocate for them. Applicants must be passionate about effecting long term change in the lives of vulnerable children and young people by providing essential support that enables them to reach their full potential.

As part of this role, we offer a range of specialist training programmes to support you in your work and invest in your professional development.

These include:

Mental Health and Safety training
Therapeutic crisis intervention training to assist young people in regulating their emotions when they are in crisis.
Enhanced Child protection training
Autism Awareness training
Neuro Linguistic Programming
Attachment and trauma training
Emotional Freedom Technique training
Emergency First aid and Fire Marshall training
Full suite of e-learning modules available that provide continuous knowledge and development.

We are looking to hire employees that have experience of working with Autism, disabilities and personal care, along with having relevant qualifications ideally possess an SVQ in Children and Young people coupled with an HNC in Social Services (or higher/or accepted equivalent line with the SSSC qualification requirements) or the ability and commitment to gain these qualifications whilst in post. Successful applicants are required to register with the SSSC and maintain the conditions of their registration throughout employment.

A full driving licence is preferable in order to undertake the full duties of the role which includes accompanying our young people on outings, meetings or responding to emergency situations appropriately. Applicants without a driving licence will be considered in line with balancing the team's needs as well as the Equality Act.

Please note:

This position requires a satisfactory Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) check, whether new or by update to be undertaken prior to commencement of post as a condition of any offers made. It is an offence to apply, offer or accept to do any work with children if disqualified from working with children. This position is exempt Under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Any data received in applications will be used for recruitment purposes only.

Interested applicants should complete and return a full application and self declaration form to This can be found on our website or by requesting to be sent via email. Any enquiries should be directed to the same email in the first instance.