Residential Childcare Worker

2 weeks ago

Walsall, United Kingdom Walsall Council Full time

**Residential Childcare Worker (full-time and part-time posts) - Ref: CH01024**
**Salary G6: £27,803 - £32,076 pro-rata (plus 5% enhancement for unsociable hours and additional payments for sleeping in duties)**
**Qualified starting salary - £29,777 (pro-rata for part-time hours)**
**Unqualified starting salary - £25,803 (pro-rata for part-time hours)**

We are looking for people who have experience of working with children to join our Children’s Residential Services within Walsall. We have six posts: two full-time posts (37 hours each) and four part-time posts (32 hours, 26 hours, 22 hours and 15 hours).

This role requires you to be resilient, resourceful, enthusiastic and motivated to be a positive influence on our children.

**The Role**
- As a Residential Childcare Worker, you will be involved in providing direct care for children and expected to be engage with children and their families and be highly ambitious in helping them to achieve positive outcomes.
- Our focus is directed towards a child centred approach where we actively promote children’s rights. We deliver our services in safe personalised small group homes where the care is aimed at supporting children’s welfare.

For additional information about the role, please see the Job Description and Employee Specification

This post is covered by the Government’s Code of Practice on the English Language Fluency Duty for public sector workers. The post holder will be required to communicate verbally with customers and provide advice and/or information in accurate spoken English.

Walsall Council takes seriously the responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of all the children and young people entrusted to our care and it is our expectation that all staff will share this commitment. We will ensure continuous development and improvement of robust recruitment processes and procedures that promote a culture of safeguarding amongst our workforce. Completion of an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check is a requirement for working with children and young people.

Here at Walsall, we want to attract the best talent. That's why - as well as a satisfying and rewarding job - we offer a range of attractive benefits. Working arrangements in most jobs are flexible (you may work flexitime, full or part time and job sharing is usually available) and you can expect generous holiday entitlements, a first class pension scheme and plenty of opportunities for training and personal development.

**Living in Walsall
Part of the Black Country, famous for its enterprising and industrial past, Walsall is reinventing itself to become a progressive modern community. The borough is centred around the major town of Walsall, but also includes five smaller and distinctive district centres (Bloxwich, Aldridge, Willenhall, Darlaston and Brownhills), together with numerous villages.

**Walsall Council is committed to Safer Recruitment.**

To achieve our commitment, we will ensure continuous development and improvement of robust recruitment processes and procedures that promote a culture of safeguarding amongst our workforce.

**Social Work Matters - Children's Social Worker Recruitment**

Some of our children require a special kind of support: yours. Visit our microsite to find out more about joining Walsall Council as a Children's Social Worker.

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