Role: Children’s Night Support Worker
Location: Mirfield, WF14 0DQ
Salary: £12.91/hr
Hours: Full or part time (30-40hrs) Role includes alternate weekends.
Hollybank Trust, founded in 1954 has achieved a reputation of attaining very high care standards, working with children, young people and adults who have profound and multiple learning disabilities and complex needs.
Orchard Court is one of our dedicated children’s residential services in Mirfield. It boasts seven accessible, en-suite rooms, all of which are wheelchair adapted and fitted with tracking hoists. It’s a happy home and there’s always lots going on – you’ll usually find cake on offer too!
Brambles is an 8-bed home for younger children with profound and multiple learning disabilities. At Brambles, the highly-skilled and enthusiastic team love to foster a fun and vibrant environment, promote skill-building, and celebrate achievements – and they’re also not shy of a good karaoke party! This is an active and busy environment but also a lot of fun.
In addition to the children that reside with us on a permanent basis, the services also offers a respite provision for families. We are looking for some amazing people to join our team in Orchard Court and Brambles to help us continue to provide high-quality, person-centred care to the children we support.
Before submitting your CV, please follow the link below to submit an application form, please note, applications that are not fully complete will be rejected, we require full education and work history.
Full job description:
Please make it clear on your application how many hours you are applying for. Applications that do not include this detail may not be processed.
What we look for from our staff:
1. Confidence – being self-assured, asking for help when you need it and challenging behaviour or practices that you feel are inappropriate or unsafe.
2. Curiosity – being inquisitive and welcoming change, asking questions about the way that we do things and why, and putting yourself forward to try new things.
3. Happiness – being cheerful and positive, bringing your best self to work and sharing your enthusiasm for life with the people we are here to support.
4. Kindness – being caring and compassionate, reaching out to your colleagues if they look like they’re struggling, being an active member of the team and working together to achieve shared goals.
What we offer:
5. Onsite food and coffee shop – Mirfield site only.
6. Discount and reward portal
7. Full employee assistance program
8. Accessible Mental Health First aiders
9. Life insurance style policy
10. Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
11. Initial DBS funded
12. Access to nationally recognized qualifications
13. Quarterly coffee mornings and annual celebrations
14. Staff recognition awards
15. Level Pay- Early access to wages
16. Increasing annual leave with length of service –
17. Overtime rates over FTE working hours
18. Bank holiday bonus rates
19. Dedicated wellbeing support and access to departmental wellbeing activities
20. Enhanced pension scheme