Residential Care Worker

Calling all residential children's care workers, whether you're seeking a move within the childrens residential care sector, or are new to it but have relevant transferable skills and life experience.

Read on to fully understand what this job requires in terms of skills and experience If you are a good match, make an application.

If you share our passion for improving the lives of young people, providing them with the best possible experiences while with us, and giving them the greatest opportunities to thrive when they leave the safety of our care.

If you want to learn, grow, and progress with an 'Outstanding' company that is committed to doing its best for its young people as well as its staff.

And if you want to work in one of our three idyllic Peak District settings, then this could be the opportunity you're looking for.

About the Role On the back of growth and internal promotions, here at Arnfield Care, we are looking for the next batch of like-minded residential care superstars to join our ranks.

We have full-time roles available for Support Workers and might be able to consider part-time positions for the right candidates, too.

Key aspects of children's residential care work:
Ensuring each young person is safe and cared for effectively, addressing care, education, social, emotional, cultural, therapeutic and health needs.

Exercising appropriate control over children and young people at all times Working in partnership with parents, families, carers, and other professionals to advocate for, safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people.

Covering various shifts including early mornings, late evenings, and sleep-ins, on weekdays, weekends, and Bank Holidays, within the Homes and on residential trips.

Promoting an organisational culture which values every team members contribution and is intolerant of discrimination in any form.

Maintaining the highest levels of confidentiality.

Established in 1997 and based in the High Peak area of Derbyshire, we are an outstanding, small, and proudly independent provider of high-quality therapeutic residential care and on-site education for children and young people.

We support young people, aged 1117, to deal with trauma resulting from a wide range of complex social, emotional and behavioural challenges in their formative years, helping them to rebuild trust, develop independence, and move forward with confidence.

Our care workers, therapists and educators pride themselves on being nurturing and supportive, and our approach is grounded in building warm, consistent, respectful and structured relationships tailored to individual needs, whether a young person is with us for a relatively short period of intensive crisis intervention work or here on a longer-term placement as they transition towards semi-independence.

That's why we achieve consistently successful outcomes with young people, why staff stay with us and build long-term careers, and why we are recognised by Ofsted as an exemplar to others.

We offer: £12.54
- £15.43 per hour, dependent on qualifications and experience £70.50 per sleep-in A Minimum of 28 days' holiday, rising to 35 days A great work/life balance Company pension Loyalty & referral bonuses, ranging from £50
- £500, plus perks and discounts A comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7/365 Fully funded training Long-term career progression We employ people not paper! Some of our best candidates entry-level candidates bring a variety of transferable skills and valuable life experiences to their roles, making them excellent recruits for our team.

Their knowledge of appropriate boundaries and innate ability to make connections with young people are the ideal foundation for our thorough training on the more technical aspects of our work.

While obviously, for more senior roles, we need to see evidence of academic and in-situ learning.

We achieve consistently successful outcomes with young people because we employ a diverse workforce that can empathise with the cultures they come from and the issues they face.

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