Childrens Homes

**Valuing Futures is a residential children’s home care provider based in Wolverhampton**

We recruiting for qualified and unqualified Residential Support Workers, for our new children’s home, situated in Wolverhampton.

We offer a competitive salary:

- **Children's Home Residential Support Workers**

**Salary**: Up to £29,172 per annum (Inclusive of sleep-in additional payments)

Our home is a solo home for one young person, aged 8 to 18 years old, operates 24hr, 2:1 staffing, ratio for young people with emotional, complex and behavioural needs. The home offers a warm, ‘trauma-informed’ nurturing and therapeutic environment where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.

We pride ourselves on providing only the best quality care for our young people. Our new team will offer a diverse range of skills and qualities ensuring positive outcomes for young people. Teamwork, communication, and passion are core to what we do, if you want to progress in a rewarding career with children and young people, in a team who put children at the heart of everything we do, then we would love to hear from you.

We are looking for enthusiastic, caring and passionate people, to become an integral part of our support team. In this role, you will support young people in their day to day, physical, health/education needs, activities, independence skills and guidance to support them to achieve the best outcomes.

Valuing Futures are immensely proud of the career pathway and training we can offer you. We ask that you can demonstrate the values needed for a role, transferable skills and life experience and in return we will give you all the training and support you need to progress.

Our benefits include:

- Competitive salary & overtime to enhance your salary
- 28 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
- Experience social work qualified management team
- Funded to achieve QCF Level 3 Residential Childcare qualification
- Comprehensive Induction Plan, mandatory & therapeutic training
- Regular supervisions, appraisals and mentoring within the home
- Employee of the month incentives
- Long service employee rewards
- We pay for your enhanced DBS
- Pension scheme enrolment
- Free meals on shift
- Free parking onsite
- Blue Light Discount Card for discounts to save you money on high street shops, restaurants, fashion clothes shops, days out, venues, days out, fashion, gifts, insurance, phones, holidays, cars and thousands of discounts saving benefits.

Qualifications & Experience:
Preferably, you will have the QCF Level 3 Diploma or equivalent in Children and young people’s workforce, experience in the children's or adults services sector, or have worked in a similar setting working with children with challenging behaviour.

If you do not have a QCFLevel 3 Diploma qualification, then we will enrol you on to this qualification and offer you plenty of training in order to ensure you have the guidance and attributes to professionally flourish with us.

Driving Licence (preferred).

Valuing Futures is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All applicants must be willing to undergo safeguarding screening appropriate to the post, including checks with Disclosure & Barring Service and at least 2 references which cover the last 3 years; for all our services we will request references from where you have worked with either Children or Vulnerable Adults.

If you want residential childcare to be a job for life, Valuing Futures will help you get there.

If you would like to build a career in this exciting role, that gives you genuine sense of achievement and fulfilment knowing that you can make a positive impact on a young person’s life. We will provide training, support and a collaborative working environment where you can flourish in your career and feel incredibly rewarded by helping those who need it most.

If you would like an informal chat about this exciting role, please contact us on:
**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £11.00-£12.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- On-site parking

Supplemental pay types:

- Loyalty bonus

**Education**:

- GCSE or equivalent (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Residential Children's home work: 1 year (preferred)
- Working with children & young people: 1 year (required)
- Youth worker, School, Mentor, Young People work: 1 year (required)

Licence/Certification:

- NVQ Level 3 Health & Social Care (preferred)
- Driving Licence (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Ability to Commute:

- Wolverhampton (required)

Ability to Relocate:

- Wolverhampton: Relocate before starting work (preferred)

Work Location: In person