About the Role
Looking for relief work in residential children's care? Able to pick up hours on an ad-hoc basis to cover planned absences, holidays and training as well as, sometimes, at short notice to cover periods of illness? Share our passion for improving the lives of young people? Want to learn, grow, and progress with a company that is committed to doing its best for staff? Then this could be the role for you.
Job Opportunity
Here at Arnfield Care, we’re interested in talking to like-minded individuals looking for flexibility in the way they work. Perhaps you can't commit to a regular weekly work pattern or have greater availability on particular days, or are less busy with other work or other responsibilities in some months of the year?
We're looking to bolster our bank of relief residential care workers that support our teams across three beautiful homes in an idyllic Peak District setting.
We offer:
* £13.70 per hour
* £70.50 per sleep-in.
* Access to a company pension
* Loyalty & referral bonuses, ranging from £50 - £500
* A comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme
* The opportunity to progress to a part-time or full-time position when your circumstances allow
Being a relief worker means...
Essentially, you have more control of when you do and don't work. We're not obliged to provide work for you and there's no minimum, or for that matter maximum, amount of work we can guarantee. But, when we do offer you shifts, either well in advance because we know about planned absences, or at short notice because we have a more pressing staff challenge we need to solve, you have the choice to accept a shift that assignment or not. If it's convenient, great. If not, that's fine, we'll be in touch next time. Each offer of work you take up is entirely at your discretion
We employ people not paper!
Some of our best candidates bring a variety of transferable skills and valuable life experiences to their roles, making them excellent recruits for our team. Their knowledge of appropriate boundaries and innate ability to make connections with young people are the ideal foundation for our thorough training on the more technical aspects of our work. We achieve consistently successful outcomes with young people because we employ a diverse workforce that can empathise with the cultures they come from and the issues they face. People who have learned important lessons from the school of life often have the greatest impact on vulnerable children and young people who have already experienced significant challenges and trauma.
Key aspects of children's residential care work:
* Ensuring each young person is safe and cared for effectively, addressing care, education, social, emotional, cultural, therapeutic and health needs.
* Exercising appropriate control over children and young people at all times
* Working in partnership with parents, families, carers, and other professionals to advocate for, safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people.
* Covering various shifts including early mornings, late evenings, and sleep-ins, on weekdays, weekends, and Bank Holidays, within the Homes and on residential trips.
* Promoting an organisational culture which values every team member’s contribution and is intolerant of discrimination in any form.
* Maintaining the highest levels of confidentiality.
Arnfield Care:
Established in 1997 and based in the High Peak area of Derbyshire, Arnfield Care Ltd is an outstanding, small, and proudly independent provider of high-quality therapeutic residential care and on-site education for children and young people. We support young people, aged 11–17, to deal with trauma resulting from a wide range of complex social, emotional and behavioural challenges in their formative years, helping them to rebuild trust, develop independence, and move forward with confidence.
We pride ourselves on being nurturing and supportive, and our approach is grounded in building warm, consistent, respectful and structured relationships tailored to individual needs, whether a young person is with us for a relatively short period of intensive crisis intervention work or here on a longer-term placement as they transition towards semi-independence.
As well as our therapists and carers, our teachers and outdoor educators help us to regulate behaviour, bolster emotional well-being and transform the self-belief of our looked-after children by making individualised learning, in a safe and supportive environment, and outdoor adventures, designed to encourage fun and personal growth, a key part of the Arnfield experience. That’s how we achieve consistently successful outcomes with young people and why we are recognised by Ofsted as an exemplar to others.
If you think you’ve got what it takes, please register your interest now by sending us an up-to-date CV and covering letter.
Essential Skills
* You must be eligible to work in the UK, have a full manual driving licence and a good standard of both written and spoken English.
* Some previous experience working in children's residential care settings (or similar) is desired as is at least a basic awareness of Child Protection and Safeguarding practices.
* A strong team ethic and an ability to relate to children and young people, especially those presenting challenging behaviour.
* You must be emotionally resilient and prepared to promote equal opportunities and to challenge any behaviour or practice that discriminates against any young person or colleague.
* An ability to work flexibly and unsupervised on occasions, according to the needs of the service.
* A willingness to engage in outdoor activities and residential camps is ideal.
* Senior relief roles require level 3/4 in residential Childcare (or equivalents).
DE&I
Arnfield Care Ltd and Arnfield Independent School stand against discrimination, oppression, and exclusion in any form. We have created working environments in which all individuals can make the best use of their skills, free from discrimination or harassment. We endeavour to make all necessary reasonable adjustments for individual employees and base all decisions relating to an individual's employment purely on merit.
We value diversity in our workforce highly. Whether it's your ethnicity, cultural heritage, religion, sex, gender identity, age or any other trait that you think might count against you, it won't. If you're disabled, have a criminal record, or left school with no qualifications or come from a care-experienced background, don't let it stop you from applying for a role with us. The very nature of what we do makes us non-judgemental. It's not about pieces of paper or the look of someone, it's about the person, what they have on the inside and, crucially, what they can give to the young people in our care.
We don't just pay lip service to the regulations either. We are an accredited level two disability-confident employer and we were one of the first businesses nationally to sign up to become a fully-fledged age-friendly employer. All staff are equally responsible for safeguarding and promoting equal opportunities and for challenging any behaviour or practice that discriminates against any young person or colleague.