Bristol Residential Short Breaks Worker

**About The Role**:
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**Employer-KIDS**

**Contract - Permanent, Part Time and Sessional positions available**

**Location-**14 Hortham Lane, Almondsbury, Bristol, South Gloucestershire BS32 4JH**

**Working hours-To be discussed at interview**

**Salary-**£10.42 per hour / £11.68 per hour including holiday pay**

**Rota completed one month in advance**

**The good stuff / benefits**:

- 5 weeks annual leave rising to 6 weeks after 4 years completed service
- Bank Holiday entitlement
- Enhanced Maternity Pay
- Enhanced Paternity Pay
- Life assurance
- Employer Pension contribution
- Flexible hours to provide an ideal balance between work life and private life
- Employee benefits portal, including discounts at 100s online high street stores
- Recommend a friend referral scheme with financial reward
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) Help’s to deal with personal and professional problems that could be affecting your home life or work life, health and general wellbeing. The confidential employee benefit provides expert advice and compassionate guidance 24/7
- Sick Pay If you are absent from work because of sickness or injury you are entitled to statutory sick pay (SSP) provided you meet the criteria in the current SSP regulations from the fourth consecutive day of sickness
- Family Friendly Leave Pay
- KIDS Virtual College: Provides a huge range of up to date and professional courses for all staff members
- Bereavement Leave
- Join us and bring your own passions or hobbies to work and encourage our children and young people to join in with you. Maybe playing an instrument, cooking or even cycling, we offer choice. If you prefer to read or watch a movie in our cinema room then you can do that too. Perhaps you love a karaoke or to dance the evening away, whatever you guilty pleasure as long as our Kids have a great time then we embrace it all- The role of short breaks practitioner is to work with children and young people ensuring they have a fun and exciting experience at Russell House.
- It’s our mission to provide a genuine holiday feeling for our guests. We try to ensure our children and young people have access to stimulating and engaging activities as much as possible. A trip to the cinema or bowling. Fish and chips at the seaside, a game of football on the beach, shopping or catching the bus into town for lunch, these activities are always a hit. We can also guide, encourage and help with independent living skills.

Recently a family member commented their daughter packs her suitcase ready to go on holiday to Russell House. What an honour and accolade to our team, to hear that.

Russell House has an allotment, we grow our own produce which our budding cooks love to use at mealtime. We have a trampoline, disabled swing, sensory room, large cinema room and wonderful outside space.

If you are looking for an exciting and rewarding job, where you can make a difference to our children and young people then come and join an amazing team who simply love what they do.

Unlike many other organisations our full time hours are 36 hours per week. We try to ensure all our team have a good work/life balance.

Hours for this post include some evenings and weekends.

**About You**:
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**Personal Qualities**:

- Experience of working with children/young people or adults with disabilities
- An understanding of special educational needs and disabilities
- Possess a fun attitude and enjoy a busy workplace. Training will be given
- Great communication skills, including active listening
- Positive attitude with the ability to be flexible, adaptable and empathetic
- Patience, Acceptance, Sensitivity, Reliability, Integrity and Resilience

It is essential to have/working towards a level 3 NVQ qualification in working with children and young people, or equivalent.

Drivers licence is an advantage, however there is a bus station only a 10 minute walk away.

**Our Mission & Strategy**

We’re here for children and young people with special education needs and disabilities, young carers and families. We’re on a mission to create a world where all kinds of children and young people have all kinds of opportunities. We create life-changing opportunities by providing a wide range of support. Together, we’ll empower disabled children to stand up for their rights.

Childhood should be a joyful time. But some children and young people living with special educational needs and disabilities are defined by what they cannot do. That’s wrong.

Every child should have an equal opportunity to play, learn, grow and thrive.

**_ Because when the world says we can’t, kids say we can._**

Our strategic plan will enable us to reach 120,000 disabled young people and their families, every year, by 2027.

**KIDS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of all those who come into contact with our services. Our colleagues are trained to recognise and respond to safeguarding concerns. We work closely with families and