Senior Residential Childcare Manager

2 weeks ago


Kilwinning, North Ayrshire, United Kingdom CareTech Group Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Residential Childcare Worker to join our team at Spark of Genius, a leading provider of residential childcare services in Scotland.

As a Senior Residential Childcare Worker, you will play a key role in providing high-quality care and support to young people with complex needs, working closely with our dedicated team to ensure their physical, emotional, and educational needs are met.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide supervisory and mentoring support to Residential Childcare Workers, ensuring they have the skills and knowledge to deliver excellent care.
  • Take responsibility for practice development, including allocated supervision and performance management of staff.
  • Ensure the care team has the necessary skills, knowledge, and ability to care for children and young people effectively.
  • Support on-call arrangements as a Senior Member of the team.
  • Assist with management tasks, including finance, fleet, environment, and Health and Safety, staffing matters, and training and development.
  • Contribute to assessment and care plan arrangements, participating in reviews and other meetings as necessary.
  • Ensure both local authority and internal care plans are in place and that staff fully understand their role.
  • Deputise in the absence of the management team, where necessary.
Requirements
  • A minimum of 2 years' experience as a Residential Childcare Worker.
  • High standard of reporting and recording.
  • Experience of working in a mentoring role.
  • Wide knowledge of the behaviours displayed by children and young people and an understanding of intervention strategies.
  • Working knowledge of legislation in relation to childcare, including National Care Standards and Child Protection.
  • An understanding of child development and the ability to apply systems and processes within residential homes that are compliant with national care standards.
  • Ability to work shifts, including evenings and weekends.
  • An ability to assist in on-call arrangements to meet business needs.
Benefits

We offer a range of specialist training programs to support your work and invest in your professional development, including:

  • Fully paid induction program.
  • Every Second Counts: bespoke training on the role of a residential childcare worker.
  • Therapeutic crisis intervention training to assist young people in regulating their emotions when in crisis.
  • Child protection training.
  • Relax kids training.
  • Attachment and trauma training.
  • Full suite of e-learning modules available for continuous knowledge and development.

In recognition of our colleagues who help us deliver our employer strategy, we offer a fantastic benefits package, including competitive rates of pay, free PVG check, pension scheme, free training, paid induction, and a range of other benefits.

Due to the nature of the role, all Residential Childcare Workers will be subject to a Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) check by Disclosure Scotland and achieve membership of the scheme prior to commencing work with us. CareTech will cover the cost of this check.

Any data received in applications will be used for recruitment purposes within Spark of Genius and CareTech only.



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