Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you enjoy working with children & young people and positively impacting their lives? We have an exciting opportunity to join our new Mental Health Residential Home as a Residential Support Worker, on a full-time permanent basis.
Location of the post: Coalville, Leicestershire.
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.
Please note: Although Ivan House will be your base location, you must be flexible to travel throughout the locality to support our other Leicestershire Residential Services until the home is operational, and as and when required throughout your employment. Our homes are located in Hinckley, Coalville, Braunstone, Market Harborough and Syston.
Ivan House, our beautiful new Mental Health Residential home in Coalville will support children & young people with a range of complex needs, providing a nurturing environment that enables them to continue to recover from the mental health issues that led to their admission to a Tier 4 CAMHS unit. The home will meet the specific needs of children & young people who are ready for discharge and no longer require inpatient mental health services, but are not yet able or ready to return to home or still require a period of time in a therapeutic setting.
Some of the responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to:
1. To build trust and develop nurturing relationships which promote the service user's independence, wellbeing, strengths, and capabilities.
2. To work in partnership and build relationships with parents/carers and other professionals.
3. To contribute to the upkeep of the home including cooking, cleaning etc.
4. To document information accurately and ensure records are kept up to date.
5. To ensure safeguarding policies and procedures are adhered to.
6. To promote, monitor and maintain a safe environment at all times.
Essential requirements to evidence in your written application:
7. Must hold the Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare OR be willing to successfully achieve this within the required timeframe.
8. Must be motivated by the opportunity to make a positive difference in young people's lives, creating a safe space and building resilience.
9. Ability to demonstrate a good understanding of safeguarding and protection of vulnerable children & young people.
10. Flexibility to commit to sleep-ins and shift work, including weekends and bank holidays.
11. Relevant experience working with children & young people is desirable, but not essential with the right attitude and willingness to learn.
For more information about this role, please contact Kelly Walker -
When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Additional Information document. This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.
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. Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
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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