Residential Social Care Worker

**Established in 1990, Pear Tree provides a unique therapeutic environment to help children and young people recover from adverse childhood experiences.**

We are looking for caring and empathetic individuals to join our team as Residential Social Care Workers, supporting children and young people in our six small, but well-established homes.

While previous experience is preferable, it is not essential. What matters most is that you share our core values**:integrity, responsibility, respect, courage, and kindness.** We are seeking individuals who are motivated, resilient, enthusiastic, and who have hobbies or skills that can add value to the lives of the young people we support.

**What we need from you and what you will be doing**

Joining our team means becoming an important part of a young person’s life. As a Residential Social Care Worker, you will play a fundamental role in helping children recover from childhood trauma and breaking the cycle of abuse. High standards in behaviour are expected and we need individuals who are committed to re parenting the children towards becoming capable young adults. While the role can be challenging, it is also hugely rewarding and filled with many moments of significant job satisfaction.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Safeguard and protect children in all aspects of their daily lives, ensuring their safety and well-being.
- Providing daily care to the children and ensuring the smooth running of the home.
- Helping children prepare for school, accompanying them to Pear Tree School when required, and assisting with homework.
- Completing general household domestic tasks such as cleaning and cooking.
- Completing necessary paperwork to document and evidence the vital work we carry out.
- Organising and participating in meaningful activities with our children and young people.

Evenings and weekends are dedicated to recreational and, where possible, therapeutic activities to help build secure attachments with our children and young people. These may include mountain biking, hiking, horse riding, theatre trips, educational visits, movie nights, or outings like cinema trips, ice skating, and weekends away in our holiday homes. These activities not only provide meaningful experiences and memories for the children but also create an enjoyable and fulfilling work environment for our team.

At Pear Tree, we adopt a marginal gains approach, focusing on understanding each individual’s needs and celebrating small steps of progress. We believe these incremental successes lead to significant positive changes, helping children grow in confidence and develop aspirations for a brighter future.

**Benefits include**:

- **Competitive Salary**:

- £27,000 per year prior to completing the QCF Level3 Diploma Residential Childcare.
- £30,000 per year upon completion of QCF Level3 Diploma Residential Childcare.
- Sleepover allowance of £50 per sleepover, approximately £5720 per year based on an average of ten per month paid in addition to base salary.
- Mileage will be paid at a rate of £0.45 per mile.
- **High Quality Working Environment**:The highest level of attention to detail has been given to our home and school environment for the benefit of our children and staff teams. Pear Tree also has holidays homes in the Lake District and North York Moors that are available for personal use.
- **Workplace pension**: Auto enrolment onto our workplace pension scheme to invest in your future and plan for a comfortable retirement.
- **Holiday** **Entitlement**: 28 days holiday plus up to an additional 5 days for long service.
- **Career Progression**: All our Senior Residential Social Care Workers, Duty Managers, Deputy Managers and Registered Managers have been promoted from within Pear Tree following a clearly defined progress pathway and remuneration package;
- Senior RSCW £34,000 per year basic.
- Duty Manager £38,800 per year basic.
- Deputy Manager (Qualified) £41,200 per year basic.
- Registered manager £51,500 per year.
- Senior Registered House Managers £63,000 per year.

Career progression at Pear Tree is not limited to just our homes, at Pear Tree we have our own independent special school with further opportunities to explore as and when opportunities may arise, ranging from instructors to school leaders;
- School Leader £50,000
- Teacher £43,000
- HLTA £32,136
- Instructor £30,000
- **Staff Wellbeing**: Employee assistance programme voted best workplace wellbeing provider. You will also enjoy a consistent working shift pattern with up to four rest days per week and regular long weekends off when you join our team.

**Additional Information**:
Approaches at Pear Tree are heavily influenced by psychology. As such, this post would ideally suit anyone seeking future career progression within that professional domain. Guided training into child development and trauma recovery will underpin your daily practice, with regular professional supervision available, provided by our a