Children's Residential Care Worker

About the role
Are you looking for a varied, challenging and rewarding position where you can help young people?

Arnold House is a five bedded residential home housing young people with autism spectrum disorder and learning disabilities.

You will work a mixture of early and late shifts and alternative weekends with enhancements paid on top of the basic hourly rate for unsocial hours, Sunday/ Bank Holiday working and standby shifts. 7:00 - 2:30pm early shift, 2:00pm-9:30pm late shift, 9:15pm - 7:15am Night shift. There is also an opportunity for overtime. The basic salary is £25,302 and based on an average **full time** working pattern with enhancements you could expect to earn £29,202

What will you be doing?
The role includes supporting with personal care, day-to-day life, helping our young people develop life skills, accompanying them to health, education and other appointments.

There are also days out trampolining, bowling, swimming, shopping or even short breaks as we try and create positive experiences for our young people. You will also support them to spend quality time with their families.

You will be their voice, their advocate, their champion as our young people are nonverbal so you will support them using communication aids.

We are a small child centric home so we encourage a “family feel” where possible, this involves eating our meals together, creating positive relationships and supporting our residents through key work.

About you
You need to be self-motivated, enthusiastic, patient and flexible amongst other things. You will find it easy to establish and build positive relationships with Young People.

You will have a nurturing nature with a child centric approach to the support you give whether that be personal care or creating tailored experiences for our children.

Applicants **must hold a full UK driving licence**, as you will be driving our Young People to appointments or activities.

**Experience of working with young people with Autism** in either a professional or voluntary capacity is desirable, as is evidence of an ongoing interest and commitment to young people.

You will need to provide a full employment history including any gaps since leaving full time education.

About us
Northamptonshire Children’s Trust is responsible for delivering Children’s Services to families in the local area. The Trust is wholly owned and funded but operationally independent from the Councils. The Trust has an open inclusive culture for all our employees. We are keen to explore new ways of working, to be more agile and adaptable in our approach to service delivery.

Our benefits
- **28 days’ annual leave,** plus 8 Bank Holidays (pro rata for part time) and an additional 5 days, after 5 years
- **Local Government Pension Scheme plus immediate life cover** (3 times your annual salary from day one) and ill-health protection.
- **Opportunity to purchase** up to 25 days annual leave
- We will pay for you to complete qualifications including NVQ Level 3 or equivalent
- **Employee Assistance Programme** - We have an employee support programme run by Health Assured, an independent, external organisation. Health Assured is available for you and your immediate family members, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year and includes telephone counselling, legal advice, bereavement support and medical information.
- **Employee discounts** with local and national retailers, days out, finance, health and beauty, travel and eating out plus lots more.
- **Flexible and family working arrangements** including enhanced maternity benefits
- **A permanent, supportive and inclusive management team** where you will be empowered to make good professional decisions
- Extensive Learning & Development and **career development** opportunities
- **Free parking** on site plus heavily subsidised town centre car parking scheme
- **Free meals** whilst on shift