Job Role: Senior Support Worker
Contract: Full Time, Permanent
Location: Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire
Earning potential: £29,245 - £33,992 per annum
Hourly rate: £14.06 - £14.56 per hour
Please note: Higher end of the pay scale is inclusive of qualification enhancement, attendance bonus and 1 sleep-in per week at £44.56 each (Staff members may complete more than 1 sleep-in per week)
As a Senior Support Worker, you will support the management team with directing roles and responsibilities to support workers and ensuring the monitoring of children and young people’s behaviour, safety, and well-being. The nature of the role varies in pace, and you will be working directly with vulnerable young people who have adverse backgrounds and require trauma-informed care.
Effective communication skills and the ability to build relationships with others are vital! As a shift leader, the right candidate will be someone who leads by example, upholds standards, and ensures that the safeguarding of children and young people underpins all decisions made.
Homes2Inspire are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults.
What you’ll bring:
1. An understanding of the challenges faced by vulnerable children and young people who have experienced trauma
2. Minimum 1 years' experience working with children and young people
3. QCF Level 3 Residential Childcare, NVQ Level 3 Health and Social Care, BA Childhood and Youth Studies or equivalent (In line with Ofsted requirements)
4. Experience of working with behaviours that challenge
5. Availability to work on a shift rota system including weekends and bank holidays
6. A full UK Driving Licence
Homes2Inspire are proud to be a part of Shaw Trust Group, a charity helping to transform the lives of young people and adults across the UK. Homes2Inspire are one of the UK’s top providers of residential children's homes and currently care for over 150 children in 53 homes and 2 leaving care facilities across the Midlands, Oxfordshire and Somerset.
What can Homes2Inspire offer you?
7. A three-week comprehensive induction package to make you feel at home with our way of working, expectations and specialist training to ensure you are prepared for your role.
8. Professional development training to progress internally into roles with Homes2Inspire, a national top ten charity owned residential children’s home provider.
9. Medicash Healthcare Plan – claim back an annual cost of everyday healthcare, such as dental, optical treatment and specialist treatment
10. Employee Assistant Program (EAP) – 24/7 access to support via phone, SMS, WhatsApp and live chat. 8 free counselling sessions/short-term solutions provided.
11. Wellbeing support – We have an internal health and wellbeing team who are on hand and available to provide professional help and support during difficult times. Our team all have an NHS clinical background and are trained in their field of expertise
12. 28 days annual leave inclusive of Bank Holidays
13. Life assurance, extensive high street discounts, access to Blue Light discount card and cycle to work scheme
14. Opportunities to connect with Shaw Trust employee networks (LGBTQ+ Support Network, Racial Equality Network, Disability Equality Network, Women’s Network, Men’s Network, Young Professionals Network, Menopause Peer Support Group, Neurodiversity Network)
15. Refer a Friend scheme – earn £500 bonus for every successful applicant referred to us.
Please Note:
16. All successful candidates will be subject to pre-employment safer recruitment checks in line with Ofsted regulatory requirements and Homes2Inspire Safer Recruitment Policy.
17. We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.
18. Candidate applications will be reviewed regularly, and we reserve the right to interview candidates before the advertised closing date of this role.
19. Due to our partnership working with Derby City Council please be aware that personal information given by applicants may be shared with partners at any stage of the recruitment process.
20. Interviews for this role will take place in-person during pre-planned assessment days, please contact the careers team if you have any accessibility requests or need reasonable adjustments (contact details below).
At Homes2Inspire, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and welcome applications from all sections of the community including from people with lived experience and/or knowledge of disability or social exclusion.
Homes2Inspire is dedicated to supporting care leavers by offering guaranteed job interviews if you meet the minimum requirements for the role. If you want to benefit from this scheme, please inform us as part of your application that you have lived-in care experience.
Male staff are under-represented within our residential children’s services. We would like to encourage more male applicants to apply for our opportunities.
It is an important part of Homes2Inspire’s recruitment process to ensure that candidates are matched with the most appropriate service based on their skills, experience, and the needs of the young people in our care. On occasion, this may result in offers of employment being made at an alternative service than where the candidate has originally applied.
For any questions on the role, or to receive a full job description, please contact our Careers Team on or 01788 487057.
To find out more about Shaw Trusts aims in our 2030 Strategic Directive available here: