About Sycamore Red Squirrel
Aberlour is Being Brave for children where there is a need for them to live away from their family. Embracing The Promise, we aim to provide a safe, loving home for the children who live with us, enabling them, over time, to reach their full potential. We offer an environment and a practice approach that promotes and encourages healing and growth and gives our team a really rewarding job experience.
What we are looking for....
We are looking for an enthusiastic individual with a passion for supporting vulnerable children to achieve the best possible outcomes in their lives. The successful candidate will have the drive, determination and cultural values to be able to lead their team to empower the children and young people to make the changes which will ultimately transform their lives.
We are looking for someone who believes that children living in a children’s house are deserving of love and someone who will support the team to ensure that our children are able to live fulfilling lives without having restriction imposed on them in their everyday lives.
The person we choose to join us must have experience of working in and leading practice in a children’s house and must be visible to the team and children to ensure that the vision and values are lived every day – this will include working some evenings and weekends.
Our homes provide a rich environment that provides safety, relationships, growth and healing for the children and adults who live and work there. To achieve this the successful candidate must have knowledge about developmental trauma, how this will have impacted children’s early life experiences and understand how to lead a team to ensure that every response a child receives takes account of their trauma.
A comprehensive support package focussed on achieving excellence in practice is provided to all our teams and the successful candidate will also receive clinical supervision, provided externally to support their professional practice development and well-being.
If you share our vision of Being Brave for every child and young person and Keeping the Promise and you have the skills and passion required to meet the challenges of this role, we look forward to hearing from you.
You will be required to have or be willing to work towards the qualifications for being a manager in a residential childcare setting: a relevant professional qualification at SCQF level 9 or above plus a management qualification at SCQF level 8 or above.
What we offer...
As well as a supportive team and excellent training opportunities, we want all our employees to feel valued and rewarded for the vital work they do. When you work with us, we'll recognise your efforts with generous annual leave, an excellent employer pension scheme and a range of deals and discounts across various retailers.