Residential Child Care Worker

Residential Childcare Worker - Day and Night shift available

Salary;

• 37 hour contracts £25107 - £30868
• £25107.20 (£13.05ph) - 0 accepted qualifications -(SSSC requirement *See body of advert)
• Bank rate £13.05 + £1.57 per hour holiday pay.
• £26792.00 (13.93ph) 1 qualification requirement met
• £30868.80 (16.04ph) both qualification requirements met
• The above rates do not include overtime which is paid at time and a third.

Ar Curam Scotland is a new development in Scotland with an established sister Company in England. We provide care, support and accommodation for children and young people with complex needs, aged between 8-17 years old in small residential care homes where we aim to achieve excellent outcomes for the children and young people in our care.

We are opening a new home in Dunlop where we will be looking for a full staff team covering both day and night shift.

Applicants must be passionate about effecting long term change in the lives of vulnerable children and young people by providing essential support that enables them to reach their full potential.

Duties will include;

• Actively and effectively safeguarding and promoting the rights of children and young people
• Teaching life skills and coping strategies
• Building confidence, self-esteem and resilience
• Accompanying them to and from education
• Facilitating family time
• Creating a warm, comforting and homely environment including all daily household tasks and encouraging participation in local activities and hobbies.
• The role also involves the monitoring, recording and completion of all relevant paperwork involved with the young persons care accurately.

Requirements;

• You will be motivated, empathetic and understanding, able to establish and build on nurturing meaningful relationships which will enable you to fully understand the young persons views, wishes and feelings to allow us to effectively advocate for them.
• Ideally you will have experience of working with children, or transferable skills in order to communicate effectively and form positive relationships with young people, parent/carers and other professionals.
• In addition, you will ideally possess an SVQ Level 3 in Children and Young people coupled with an HNC in Social Services (or higher/or accepted equivalent line with the SSSC qualification requirements) or the ability and commitment to gain these qualifications whilst in post. You can find out more about the qualification requirements and variations here - Worker in a residential child care service - Scottish Social Services Council (sssc.uk.com).
• Successful applicants are also required to register with the SSSC and maintain the conditions of registration throughout employment.
• A full driving licence is preferable in order to undertake the full duties of the role which includes accompanying our young people on outings, meetings or responding to emergency situations appropriately. Applicants without a driving licence will be considered in line with balancing the teams needs as well as the Equality Act.

If you are nurturing, caring and enjoy working with children we look forward to hearing from you.

Please note:

This position requires a satisfactory Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) check, whether new or by update to be undertaken prior to commencement of post as a condition of any offers made. This will be paid for by Ar Curam Scotland Ltd.

It is an offence to apply, offer or accept to do any work with children if disqualified from working with children. This position is exempt Under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

Confirmation of appointment further to conditional offer will only be made after receipt and verification of satisfactory checks.

Any data received in applications will be used for recruitment purposes only.

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