Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you enjoy working with children & young people and positively impacting their lives? We have a fantastic opportunity to join our ever-growing Leicestershire Residential Team as a Residential Support Worker on a full-time permanent basis - We have numerous vacancies still available!
Service Overview: Barnardo's, the UK's largest Children's Charity are currently on an exciting and innovative Journey alongside Leicestershire County Council to deliver a range of Children's homes for the most vulnerable children & young people in Leicestershire.
Where are our homes based?
We currently have homes in Hinckley, Coalville, Syston, Mountsorrel, Braunstone and Market Harborough. Some are fully up and running whilst the others are still being mobilised.
Each of our beautiful homes will support children & young people aged between 8-18, providing up to 3 service users at any one-time opportunities to enjoy different experiences, establish friendships and develop confidence, independence and social/emotional skills.
What do our Support Workers do?
1. Build trust and develop nurturing relationships which promote the service user's independence, wellbeing, strengths, and capabilities.
2. Work in partnership and build relationships with parents/carers and other professionals.
3. Contribute to the upkeep of the home including cooking, cleaning etc.
4. Document information accurately and ensure records are kept up to date.
5. Ensure safeguarding policies and procedures are adhered to.
6. Promote, monitor and maintain a safe environment at all times.
A bit about you!
7. Do you hold a Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare OR are you willing to successfully achieve this alongside your role?
8. Are you motivated by the opportunity to make a positive difference in young people's lives, creating a safe space and building resilience?
9. Are you able to demonstrate a good understanding of safeguarding and protection of vulnerable children & young people?
10. Are you flexible to commit to sleep-ins and shift work, including weekends and bank holidays on a rota basis?
11. Most importantly, do you enjoy the challenges and rewards of working with Children and Young People?
If so, we'd love to hear from you!
To register your interest, please complete the contact form/provide your CV, or get in touch with / 02031 469 505 (option 2)
Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.
Pay & Reward Framework
We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's . We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.
For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.
Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.
Benefits
Workplace Offer: What it means for you
The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.
12. Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
13. 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 5 years service
14. The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
15. A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
16. Service related sick pay from day 1
17. Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
18. Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
19. Cycle2work scheme
20. Interest free season ticket loans
21. Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
22. 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
23. Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
24. Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
25. Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
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