Residential Child Care Worker - Casual
We are seeking to appoint casual Residential Child Care Workers to cover shifts in our Residential Children’s Homes located in Chester, Ellesmere Port, Winsford and Northwich.
Cheshire West and Chester’s Residential Service aims to ensure that its most vulnerable children's needs are met and that their life chances are maximised to enable them to achieve their full potential and positive outcomes.
As a casual Residential Child Care Worker, you will join an organisation where the focus is on achieving the best outcomes for the children and families who we work with. The team strive to have purposeful relationships where all our interventions can truly bring about change and make a real difference to the lives of children and young people.
Cheshire West and Chester Council is a place where everyone can Thrive – through our core values of Teamwork, Honesty, Respect, Innovation, Value for Money and Empowerment.
Cheshire West and Chester seek to enable a progressive culture where creativity can flourish, where innovation and thinking differently can be embraced and where ambition and high aspiration for children to improve their outcomes can be upheld for every child. Our Children and Families work in a trauma informed way using our innovative multi-agency partnership model ‘Our Way of Working’.
You will also have access to a range of benefits including:
- Competitive salary (up to £15.84 per hour, plus enhancements of £1.58 for evenings, £3.96 for night time / weekends and £41.78 sleep-in allowance)
- Extensive training, induction and support will be offered to all candidates who want to join the council and regular appraisal process surrounding development needs.
- Pension Scheme – our Local Government Pension Scheme is a career average pension scheme with employee contributions of between 5.5% and 8.5% and employer contributions currently of 23.8%. The scheme includes ill health and death in service benefits (after two years membership).
If you decide to later join the Council by applying for a permanent vacancy we can offer a range of additional benefits;
- Grow your own culture-We have a Career Progression Structure comprising of three levels of progression programmes to support your professional development,
- A generous holiday allowance starting at 26 days pro rata (plus bank holidays) increasing with length of service to 31 days.
- Working rewards – we have a variety of schemes available to employees which include; additional Annual Leave, car and cycle purchase scheme, home and electronics purchase scheme, in addition to discounts at a wide range of high street and on line retailers.
- Boosting your retirement savings by shared cost AVC purchase.
- Discounted gym membership
- Cash back scheme on any medical treatment that may require via Medicash Employee Assistance Programme - 24-hour, seven day a week lifestyle support for when you or your family members need a ‘listening ear’ from qualified advisor on a wide range of personal and work issues.
As a casual Residential Child Care Worker, you will hold your Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare or equivalent and have experience working in supporting vulnerable children and young people and a supervisory skillset, however we will train and support you in this role and develop your skillset further with our range of available training courses and resources which our teams are able to source. You will need be a strong team player with great communication skills and a commitment to working collaboratively.
You will additionally:
- Receive high quality supervision, with your own personal development plan to support your career and learning aspirations.
- Have the opportunity to deliver quality services in partnership with stakeholders based upon a manageable workload within the team, empowering others.
- A working environment where you be supported in adopting an evidence-based approach to practice.
If you have commitment, drive and enthusiasm we would like to hear from you!
For an informal discussion around these posts please contact Residential Manager Amy Burgess: amy.burgess@cheshirewestandchester.gov.ukor call between Monday – Friday (09:00 – 17:00) 07860 356690
Please note - The job may close when a suitable number of applications have been received.
Please note that this job is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
To find out more information about what it is like to work for Cheshire West and Chester Council including our rewards and benefits please see www.cwcrecruitment.co.uk
No candidate will meet every single requirement - if your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!
Cheshire West and Chester Council are committed to equality and diversity in employment. Please see the Equality Policy for more information.
Cheshire West and Chester Council have adopted a Local Living Wage for our employees which means that all employees will receive a minimum of £12 per hour for all contracted hours.
For any technical enquiries please email Sourcingteam@ecwip.co.uk and quote job reference number in all correspondence.