Overview
Children’s Residential Care Worker – Relief – NN17 1AJ
Our Benefits
- Local Government Pension Scheme plus immediate life cover (3 times your annual salary from day one) and ill-health protection.
- We will pay for you to complete qualifications including NVQ Level 3 or equivalent
- Employee Assistance Programme – We have an employee support programme run by Health Assured, an independent, external organisation. Health Assured is available for you and your immediate family members, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year and includes telephone counselling, legal advice, bereavement support and medical information.
- Employee discounts with local and national retailers, days out, finance, health and beauty, travel and eating out plus lots more.
- Flexible and family working arrangements including enhanced maternity benefits
- A permanent, supportive and inclusive management team where you will be empowered to make good professional decisions
- Extensive Learning & Development and career development opportunities
- Free parking on site plus heavily subsidised town centre car parking scheme
- Free meals whilst on shift
About the role
Are you looking for a varied, challenging and rewarding position where you can help and mentor young people?
Raven House is a five bedded residential home housing young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties. You will work a mixture of early and late shifts and alternative weekends with enhancements paid on top of the basic hourly rate for unsocial hours, Sunday/ Bank Holiday working, standby and sleep ins.
These posts are zero hours contracts providing cover/relief for existing staff and is a great first step into a new career. Shifts include weekend and evening working and successful candidates should be available to work at short notice.
For further information or to arrange an informal discussion please contact Nicola.Ahern@NCTrust.co.uk
About you
You need to be self-motivated, enthusiastic, patient and flexible amongst other things. You will find it easy to establish and build positive relationships with Young People.
Applicants must hold a full UK driving licence as you will be accompanying our Young People to appointments or activities.
Experience of working with young people in either a professional or voluntary capacity is desirable, as is evidence of an ongoing interest and commitment to young people.
When we asked our residents what makes a good Residential Care Worker they said “Someone with a personality that you can have a joke with and who smiles. Someone that you can talk to and trust with things, someone that’s understanding.”
his role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore subject to an enhanced DBS certificate. It is also a regulated activity and will be subject to a Barred List check
Please note we do not offer sponsorship for this role so you should have the right to work in the UK without restrictions.
When applying please ensure your supporting statement covers how you fulfil the essential criteria set out in the person specification as this will be used to shortlist. You will need to provide a full employment history including any gaps since leaving full time education
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
