Cheshire West and Chester Council is a place where everyone can Thrive – through our core values of Teamwork, Honesty, Respect, Innovation, Value for Money and Empowerment. If successful, you will be based at one of our residential provisions located across Chester, Ellesmere Port and Northwich. Our homes vary from, 3 and 4 bed provisions that support young people in long term placements to a solo provision that will support young people in short term placements whilst they are bridging to another placement, or so that their needs can be assessed to help identify a long-term placement. You should have experience of working with vulnerable children and experience at leading, inspiring and motivating people in this type of setting to ensure exceptional care for children. This is an exciting job opportunity for someone who is motivated by the prospect of being part of a team who are taking forward the expansion of our residential service. The successful candidate would also be willing to work within other homes within the service when support is required. We provide a range of employee benefits, including salary sacrifice car, technology and bicycle schemes. We also offer a range of shopping discounts and an annual leave purchase scheme. In addition to this, our contribution related reward scheme provides high performing employees with a range of rewards. We reserve the right to close this vacancy as soon as we have received enough applications for the role, therefore we encourage you to make your application without delay. For an informal discussion about the role please contact Rob Taberner on rob.taberner@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk Please note that this job is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. To find out more information about what it is like to work for Cheshire West and Chester Council including our rewards and benefits please see www.cwcrecruitment.co.uk No candidate will meet every single requirement - if your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you! Cheshire West and Chester Council are committed to equality and diversity in employment. Please see the Equality Policy for more information. Cheshire West and Chester Council have adopted a Local Living Wage for our employees which means that all employees will receive a minimum of £12.60 per hour for all contracted hours. For any technical enquiries please email Sourcingteam@ecwip.co.uk and quote job reference number in all correspondence.