Shifts: 40 Working hours per week
Locations: Kilwinning
Job Type: Full Time Permanent
Salary Scale£35,048 *£500 Welcome Bonus *£1000 Recommend A Friend Bonus!
We are hiring a Senior Residential Childcare Worker
Spark of Genius is one of Scotland’s largest residential child care providers. For over 25 years, we have been delivering high quality care to young people who need to be looked after.
This is an opportunity to be part of a dedicated and trauma-informed team, and to work directly with young people with a range of complex needs connected to their individual life experiences and childhood adversity.
This is also a chance to make a difference to outcomes for young people!
Our mission is to make Every Second Count, to help us succeed you will:
- Provide a supervisory and mentoring role to our team of residential childcare workers
- Take responsibility for practice development of the care team
- Ensuring that staff understand and are fully aware of the daily routines of the home.
- Support on call arrangements as a Senior Member of the team.
- Assist with management tasks including finance, fleet, environment and Health and Safety, staffing matters including absence, recruitment, training and development.
- Contribute to assessment and care plan arrangements, participating in reviews and other meetings as necessary.
- Ensure both local authority and internal care plans are in place and that staff fully understand their role
- Deputise in the absence of the management team, where necessary.
- Ensure staff are aware of and deliver the support required to ensure the life chance opportunities of the young people for their social, educational, leisure, emotional, physical, and cultural needs are met.
- Safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people.
- Promote and actively encourage the delivery of a safe, structured and nurturing environment
You will ideally have:
- A minimum of 2 years experiences as Residential Child Care Worker
- Ability to work shifts including evening and weekends
- An ability to assist in on call arrangements to meet business need.
Qualification & Education
- You will have SVQ 3/SQF 6/7 AND HNC/ Academic equivalent
- You will be required to have work towards SQF Level 9 Children and Young People, and /or a practice qualification in the Management Category or equivalent that meets SSSC requirement when in post.
As part of this role, we offer a range of specialist training programmes to support you in your work and invest in your professional development. These include:
* -Fully Paid induction programme
* Ongoing training possibilities and career development
* Competitive Rates of Pay
* Free PVG check
* Pension Scheme
* *£1000 Recommend A Friend Bonus!
Due to the nature of the role, it will be necessary for all Residential Childcare Workers to be subject to a Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) check by Disclosure Scotland and achieve membership of the scheme prior to commencing work with us. CareTech will cover the cost of this check.
Any data received in applications will be used for recruitment purposes within Spark of Genius and CareTech only.
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