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 Contextual Safeguarding Home as a Residential Support Worker, on a full-time permanent basis.
Location of the home: Hinckley, 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: Hopes Place is due to open in January 2025. You must be flexible to travel throughout the locality to work in our other LeicestershireResidential Services Children's homes based in Hinckley, Coalville, Syston and Market Harborough until Hopes Place is operational. This home will then become your base location.
Hopes Place, our beautiful new home in Hinckley will support children & young people between 8-18 years facing risks around exploitation, by identifying and responding to harm and abuse posed to them outside of their home environment and understanding the importance of intervention. The service will provide up to 3 service users at any one-time opportunities to enjoy different experiences, establish friendships and develop confidence, independence and social/emotional skills.
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. Due to the nature of the service, a valid UK driving licence is required.
8. Must hold the Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare OR be willing to successfully achieve this within the required timeframe.
9. Must be motivated by the opportunity to make a positive difference in young people's lives, creating a safe space and building resilience.
10. Ability to demonstrate a good understanding of safeguarding and protection of vulnerable children & young people.
11. Flexibility to commit to sleep-ins and shift work, including weekends and bank holidays.
12. Relevant experience working with children & young people is desirable, but not essential with the right attitude and willingness to learn.
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 1st April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a key pillar of our Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to grow and develop in their career at Barnardo's as it will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues to progress through the pay band of their role.
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 progression 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.
13. 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.
14. 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 5 years service
15. The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
16. A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
17. Service related sick pay from day 1
18. 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
19. Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
20. Cycle2work scheme
21. Interest free season ticket loans
22. Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
23. 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
24. Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
25. Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
26. Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
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