Children's Assistant / Residential Support Care Worker (LD / EBD)

To help you and our children we have a respected clinical psychologist who provides individual and team support to our home. We also provide training for all staff which is predominantly face to face and includes mandatory and specialist courses (both internal and external). We provide excellent career development and progression opportunities.

We are expanding our Ofsted "Good" rated service in Cheltenham and we are looking for a number of passionate, and enthusiastic Assistant Care Practitioners and qualified and experienced Care Practitioner to work with us to work within a successful, able, and supportive team. This role will allow the successful candidate to mould, drive and develop the Children's Home and take it to outstanding.

This is a 3 bedded Children's Home which provides 3 residential placements for children between the ages of 8 to 18.

Our children are incredible and will definitely keep you on your toes with no two days the same. Although it can be challenging at times, it can also be the most fun and rewarding job you will ever have! A sense of humour is a must!

Our children are with us for a variety of reasons and many will have experienced traumatic life events. They need empathy, care, love, play and stability to help them flourish and move onto the next stage of their life, whether that is going home, independence, university or another placement. Can you help us to achieve all of this and more?

About YOU and what Flourish can offer?

First and foremost, you must like and enjoy being with our children! This is the key requisite for all our employees.

We are looking for experienced and qualified (level 3 Diploma for Residential Childcare or a recognised equivalent qualification) adults or willing to work towards one and who are passionate about our children and are looking to work using an attachment based approach which really does put the child at the centre of all that we do.,

• Residential Childcare: 1 year (preferred)


Licence/Certification:

• NVQ Level 3 in Residential Childcare (or equivalent) (preferred)


• Manual Driving Licence (required)
  
  · A friendly working environment where you are known as an individual


· Opportunities for progression and development

· Support, input and training from an industry leading clinical psychologist

· Competitive salary of £25,500 - £27,750
• (pro rata for part time) dependent on qualifications


· With overtime and additional sleep-ins, our qualified CPs can expect to earn OTE in the region of £.32,840
• (pro rata for part time)


· Overtime and Sleep in Annual leave enhancements

· Wellbeing packages

· Free DBS and update service

· Nest Pension

· 28 days holiday (increasing after 2 years service)

· Refer a friend scheme

· Rostered team meetings and training

· Supportive and reliable on call system

· Supportive and accessible managers and senior management

· Company vehicles to use at work (no need to use your own car!)

This is a role including shift work, so you must be able to work weekends, evenings and sleep ins.


• This is made up of base salary plus 60 contracted sleep-ins per annum (pro-rated to 5 per month).



• On average our employees complete 78 sleep-ins and 310 overtime hours per year. In reality, you may do more or less than the average and this will therefore impact your OTE.


At Flourish we aim to create and maintain a safe working environment and follow a robust recruitment process, therefore any successful candidates will go through an enhanced DBS and reference check.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £25,500.00-£32,840.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension


• Discounted or free food


• Free parking


• Health & wellbeing programme


• On-site parking


• Referral programme