Home Care Worker

**Location: Wolverhampton**

**Salary: £21.450 Unqualified to £23,4050 Qualified (£11 -£12 per hour) plus £50 per sleep in**

**Driving License Essential**

**Other Benefits**:
Pension scheme, annual leave, use of company cars, free parking, meals provided on shift, enhanced overtime payments, activities with young people and access to Qualification/training and opportunities for career progression.

**Hours: 162.5 hours per month**

**Contract: Permanent**

We all have to start somewhere, we offer a chance within a small family run organisation for you to come and join us without being overwhelmed by the size of the organisation.

You don’t need experience to become a Residential Support Worker, you just need to want to make a difference for young people who have not been given the life chances they deserve.

We are looking for people who are caring, patient, responsible but able to have fun and make our young people’s lives more enjoyable. Come and join our fantastic team as a Residential Support Worker and you will be able to support our children and young people make progress in their daily lives, offering a safe nurturing environment for the to flourish. Be a part of making a difference to a young person’s life by giving them the opportunity to grow.

We like to feel that we are a great company to work for which will give you the opportunity to start or continue your career in care. We are a small organisation who put our young people and staff first. You will be working as part of a team committed to helping children with varied and complex needs. This line of work can offer a challenge however can also be very rewarding. All of our settings we strive to maintain a strong safeguarding culture, ensuring young people’s views, wishes and feelings are listened to.

Residential Support Workers are supported to carry out an essential and varied role to provide individual care and support to each young person in placement. We take on the parental role for the young people as co-operate parents, this includes taking young people to education, appointments, do activities with them, administer medication alongside ensuring all relevant paperwork is completed to evidence our work to the governing bodies. Don’t forget as a co-operate parent you also have to do the household tasks as you would at home.

The young people are always the top of our agenda, we are looking for Residential Support Workers, who shares our vision to promote each young person to achieve the best possible outcome for themselves to enable them to go on and make a future for themselves and thrive.

Previous experience within the care setting would be great, but as mentioned we all start somewhere so this isn’t essential as we offer full training for all roles, so if you believe you have the right qualities and are resilience come and join us to make a difference.

**About us**:
Oak Childcare Plus is a very small organisation who are registered with Ofsted, we have 3
bedded services which offer 1:1 staffing ration’s enabling the young people to have the
attention and time from staff they need to thrive. We are within commuting distance of Wolverhampton, Telford, Dudley, Stafford, Cannock, Walsall and surrounding areas.

**Why come and join us?**

We are a small friendly family run organisation that wants to stay small to enable us to ensure the young people and staff don’t become lost in a bigger system and become just a number. Each young person and staff will be a name not a number.

There are career opportunities to develop within the organisation, you will have access to
Continuing Professional Development to help pursue your personal goals. We offer accredited training programs including QCF level 4 alongside ongoing learning opportunities.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £11.00-£12.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Flexitime
- Free parking
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- 12 hour shift
- Flexitime

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Residential Care Worker