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Company Name: Colten Care
Job Description
How would you like to be paid for 100% of your contractual hours, but only work 80%?
Job Title: Children’s Residential Team Leader
Salary: £28,593.60 per annum (inclusive of sleep in allowance, based on 8 sleep ins per month)
Location: Staffordshire
Contract: Full Time; Permanent
Essential: A full driving licence, and the Right to Work in the UK
Are you looking for a challenging, yet rewarding career where you can support children and young people to reach their full potential and gain independent lives?
If so, look no further!
Your wellbeing is at the heart of everything we do at OFG, so we’re always looking for new ways to improve everyone’s work/life balance.
We’re taking part in a trial of the 4-Day Working Week, meaning that you could be working one day less a week (or equivalent).
If the trial is a success, we’ll be rolling the 4DWW out across the Group – so there’s never been a more exciting time to join #teamOFG!
Acorn Education & Care are recruiting Children’s Residential Team Leaders to join our teams within the Staffordshire area. Your empathy and warmth will enable you to support vulnerable children aged 7-18 with social, emotional and mental health difficulties (SEMH). This means that the Children we care for may have experienced challenging or traumatic upbringings and may have difficulties with anxiety, mental health or in some cases self-harm.
There are a total of 4 residential homes in the Staffordshire region, based in Stone, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Stoke-on-Trent and Stretton, and are all withing commuting distance from Stafford, Newcastle-under-Lyme and surrounding towns and villages.
The Role
Our Team Leaders carry out an essential and varied role, leading a team to provide the individual, bespoke, support required by the children and young people in our care. You will design, implement, and monitor the care and education plans to meet the individual needs of our children and young people, ensuring that key life and independent skills are achieved in the enriching and positive environment we strive to create.
Key Skills Required
* Currently hold a Level 4 Apprenticeship for Children, Young People and Families or NVQ equivalent
* Experience of leading and motivating teams
* Ability to effectively train individuals and groups
Who we are looking for
* People with a big heart and passion to make a difference to the residents’ lives
* Understanding that the people we care for can be challenging
* Be patient, resilient and calming
* Willingness to learn about the people we support.
* Effective communication skills, both verbal and written
What we can offer
* Funded qualifications
* Annual Leave Entitlement equivalent to 5.6 weeks per year (with options to purchase more)
* Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
* "Your Wellbeing Matters" – access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks
* And market leading benefits offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform Vista that enable you to choose the package that’s right for you, including:
o A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
o 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
o Cycle to Work Schemes
o Electric Car Purchase Scheme
o Critical illness cover
Click the apply button below NOW! Or call 01204 558 055 for more information!
You’ll work 80% of your contractual hours for 100% of your pay, more time for you!
We are committed to the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. All successful applicants will be subject to fully Enhanced DBS.
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