Role: Residential Childcare Worker
Location: Blackwater
Cornwall Salary: £13 - £13.5 per hour
Hours: Full time including evenings and weekends and one waking night shift per week
About the role
About the role:
As a Residential Childcare Worker, you will work closely with the young people who we support to enrich their lives. Your responsibilities will include supporting young people to appointments and activities such as shopping or trips out, engage our young people in tasks and activities, undertaking household tasks and complete relevant paperwork.
Example hours:
• 9am to 9pm
• 7.30am to 8.30pm
• 2pm to 9pm
• 1pm to 11pm, sleep on site, 7am to 10am
• 8am to 10pm, sleep on site, 6am to 8.30am
This is a great opportunity to start or continue your career in support work, working, when required, as part of a team committed to helping individuals with varied and complex needs.
Previous roles that work well for this are:
• Teaching Assistant
• Residential Support Worker
• Care Assistant
• Youth Worker
• Sports Coach
Why join us?
• Competitive pay
• Permanent position after a probationary period
• Dedicated consultant and team to support you throughout
• Refer a friend scheme
When on a perm role, you will receive:
• Market leading benefits offered through our Flexible Benefits Platform Vista that enable you to choose the package that’s right for you, including:
• A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
• 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad, to use at high street stores, events, cinemas, restaurants and more!
The successful candidate must have
• Experience working with vulnerable young people
• Experience working with complex behaviours and challenging behaviours
• Experience working in youth offending or secure services
• An understanding of safeguarding
• Flexibility to work shifts including weekends and evenings
• A personality made up of resilience, determination and empathy
Please call 01637 805 441 or email cornwall@visionforeducation.co.uk
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