Residential Children & Young Peoples Worker

Are you ready to make a lasting difference in a child's life?

Do you have the resilience and commitment to support children with complex needs?Are you looking for a role where your values, skills, and experience are truly appreciated?

We are recruiting Children's Home Support Workers to join our team at The Drive, a residential home supporting children and young people with disabilities, including learning difficulties and autism. This is a rewarding opportunity to work in a nurturing, inclusive, and child-focused environment.

As part of our team, you'll build meaningful relationships with children, support them in their daily routines and interests, and help them develop confidence and independence. You'll play a key role in promoting emotional wellbeing and advocating for their voices to be heard in decisions about their lives.

We welcome applications from all backgrounds, cultures, and identities. We are committed to building a diverse team that reflects the communities we serve.

You'll need:

• Resilience and emotional strength to support children with complex needs.
• A good understanding of Ofsted Children's Homes regulations and guidance.
• A Level 3 or 4 qualification in Children & Young People Workforce (Social Care or Residential Child Care), or a willingness to complete this within two years.
• Experience in residential care is helpful, but we also welcome transferable skills from other sectors.
• A commitment to safeguarding and trauma-informed care.

Your role will involve:

• Supporting children in daily routines, hobbies, and community activities.
• Promoting emotional wellbeing and helping children understand and manage behaviours.
• Advocating for children's voices in decisions about their lives.
• Working collaboratively with families, professionals, and colleagues.
• Delivering care in line with Barnardo's values and regulatory standards.

In return, you'll benefit from:

• A meaningful role making a real difference in children's lives.
• Ongoing training and development opportunities.
• A supportive management and team culture.
• Career progression within Barnardo's.
• Flexible working patterns.
• Trade union recognition (Unison).

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?values.? 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 in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our?People & Culture?Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.

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 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.

• 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.
• Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• 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
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

T&C's apply based on contract