Senior Residential Childcare Worker

**Full Job Description**:
**_How would you like to be paid for 100% of your contractual hours, but only work 80%?_**

**Role: Senior Care Worker**

**Salary: Up to £28,593.60** **per annum inclusive of 8 sleep ins payments per month**

**Hours: 48 hours per week**

**Location: Stamford, Lincolnshire**

**Essential: A Level 4 Apprenticeship for Children Young People and Families Practitioner OR equivalent Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare and the Right to Work in the UK**

**Your wellbeing is at the heart of everything we do at OFG, so we’re always looking for new ways to improve everyone’s work/life balance.**

**We’re taking part in a trial of the 4-Day Working Week, meaning that you could be working one day less a week (or equivalent).**

**If the trial is a success, we’ll be rolling the 4DWW out across the Group - so there’s never been a more exciting time to join #teamOFG**

Options Autism are recruiting a **Senior Care Worker** to join our team based in **Stamford**. Your empathy and warmth will enable you to support vulnerable children with social, emotional and mental health difficulties (SEMH). This means that the Children we care for may have experienced challenging or traumatic upbringings and may have difficulties with anxiety, mental health or in some cases self-harm.

Southview is a beautiful 6 Bed Residential Home, surrounded by scenic countryside. We have a family environment and are looking for Senior Children’s Care Workers to join our small team.

This home is based in Stamford and is within commuting distance from Peterborough, Grantham and Melton Mowbray.

**The Role**:
We are looking for responsible, caring people to join our fantastic team at Southview, Stamford as a Senior Residential Care Worker. As a Senior Residential Care Worker, you will support our children and young people in their daily lives, ensuring they are safe, comfortable, and healthy.

This is a great opportunity to continue your career in care, working as part of a team committed to helping children with varied and complex needs. Your work will be challenging and rewarding in equal measure and you will be working in a setting where we maintain a strong safeguarding culture, where children and young people are listened to, respected and involved in as many decisions as possible.

Our Senior Residential Care Workers carry out an essential and varied role to provide the individual, bespoke, support required by the children and young people in our care. You will lead children in activities, complete relevant paperwork, deliver personal care, undertake household tasks, and where appropriate administrate medication.

Quality is always top of our agenda and we pride ourselves on the quality of what we do. We are looking for a Senior Residential Care Worker, who shares our vision to build incredible futures by empowering vulnerable young people in the UK, to be happy and to make their way in the world.

Already qualified to NVQ3 in Health & Social Care, you will be calm, engaging, resilient, able to work with emotional needs and challenging behaviour, and be motivated to provide a safe, caring environment where every child can thrive.

**Who are we are looking for?**

To become a Senior Care Worker with us, you will need to have achieved your Level 4 Apprenticeship for Children Young People and Families Practitioner, or NVQ equivalent. You should also have at least 1 year’s hands on experience in a similar residential environment.

We know that the children and young people in our care can be challenging, and we are looking for Care Workers who are up for that challenge. You will be patient and resilient, and able to recognise the reward in transforming a young person’s life. You will take care of everyday needs, using a calm, reliable approach that builds trust and confidence.

You will be friendly, approachable and kind in your dealings with your team and children and young people. You will be committed to giving them the space and opportunity to thrive, playing your part in creating a nurturing environment in which they can fulfil their potential.

You will play a key role in the smooth-running of the site, and you will have a good grasp of safety and hygiene, and a conscientious dedication to the young people’s wellbeing. This is a role in which attention to detail really counts - and one that touches the real lives of people every day

**What we can offer**:

- Funded qualifications
- Annual Leave Entitlement equivalent to 5.6 weeks per year** **_(with options to purchase more)_
- Life Assurance
- Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
- **_ “Your Wellbeing Matters”_** - access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

And market leading benefits offering through our **Flexible Benefits Platform Vista** that enable you to choose the package that’s right for you, including:

- A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insuran