Senior Residential Childcare Support Worker

**Salary: £30,163 to £31,668 per annum pro rata (**Part of the role involves some overnight stays in the home. You will need to do between 1 and 2 ‘sleep-ins’ per week, so the salary advertised does not include that payment, however if you complete eight sleep-ins per month, that’s equivalent of approximately an extra £4000 per year)**

**Contract: Permanent**

**Hours: 37 hours per week**

**Location: Keighley, Leeds**

**Catholic Care**

**Our Vision**:
At **Steps for Tomorrow**, we believe that with support and opportunities, children can overcome challenges and shape their future. We see their untold stories, possibilities, dreams, and their potential - and we believe in their ability to rewrite their destiny. All while having lots of fun along the way.

Our work is about supporting children whose lives have been affected by childhood trauma, to build authentic and caring relationships with adults who continuously role model healthy behaviour and offer a creative combination of good boundaries, high hopes and expectations, sensitive care and positive experiences. Our work enables our children to feel valued and respected, from here they can grow through cherish and challenge.

**Steps for Tomorrow** will be a particularly nurturing, fun, structured and comfortable home that will also be an encouraging and calm place, offering our children a wide range of opportunities and experiences to ensure they can feel confident and loved enabling them to thrive and to feel fully prepared for their next steps.

**Why Join Catholic Care?**

Catholic Care is a vibrant and forward-thinking charity that continuously adapts its services to meet the needs of today and tomorrow. Our specialist support enables children to live happy and fulfilling lives. Our children are at the heart of all we do and we work together with them to agree how we will support their needs and aspirations

Each year the work we do makes a positive difference to nearly 4,000 people, both through our CQC and Ofsted regulated services and in our local communities. We care passionately about the people we support who remain at the heart of what we do. We are a values led charity. Our values are what drive everything we do. They help us to make decisions about what we do, how we do it and who we do it for.

Your wellbeing is important to us, and we will make sure you feel valued and part of the Team. We are a Mindful Employer and accredited with Investors In People and our approaches are there to support you along the way. We also offer benefits which reflect your hard work, including generous annual leave, pension scheme and sick pay policy.

**Overview of Role**

Our trauma informed staff specialise in providing nurture and care to children who are looked after. We work hard to create a home environment that exceeds the needs of our children enabling them to express their characters, feel safe and enrich their lives.

The children that we care for can demonstrate a wide range of behaviours and can be very demanding of time, attention, and emotions. A Senior residential childcare worker advocates pro-actively for each child’s needs, rights, views, and ensures that these are met.

They also make certain that each child’s individuality, difference and diversity are always appreciated and that our children are provided with equal opportunities and are not discriminated against. Senior Residential childcare workers encourage each child to be involved in all aspects of

their care. This will involve skill development, problem-solving and assessment of risk, while being mindful of their individual capabilities.

You will also support staff to ensure we have positive and effective team working, that can achieve high quality standards of care that are set and agreed by the Registered Manager to establish an enabling culture, which actively promotes children’s life chances to achieve optimal outcomes in line with the Quality care standards.

You will contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring and review of systems and policies which ensure compliance with legislative regulations and that high standards are achieved thus maximising quality of care, protection and appropriate control.

Your role will also include the supervision of staff and key working responsibilities so you should be able to develop, demonstrate, promote and maintain a good level of awareness of safeguarding issues, assessing and recording of risk.

**What We Can Offer You**:
Competitive salary

24 days annual holiday plus bank holidays (full time equivalent)

Additional 3 days annual leave after 5 years of service

Comprehensive Induction Programme with ongoing learning and development

Career progression opportunities

Regular supervision

Regular performance and development meetings to support your ongoing development

Investors in People and Mindful Employer

Group Personal Pension Scheme

Healthcare Cash Plan

Life Insurance Cover

Cycle to Work Scheme

Employee Referra