Bank Residential Child Care Workers - Fife
Make a difference during the week \& weekends – join our Bank Team!
Looking for flexible work that fits around your commitments? Join our Bank Team and help us provide high quality care and support to children and young people. Choose shifts that suit your schedule while contributing to a service that truly changes lives.
Hourly Rate: £14\.48 \- £15\.58 (inclusive of holiday allowance) depending on qualifications with additional payments for sleep\-ins.
Location: Burntisland/Kirkcaldy or Dunfermline
Why choose Starley Hall over other care providers?
- Over 30 years\-experience delivering high quality individualised care and educational services to children and young people.
- Commitment to growth, improvement and expansion.
- Commitment to professional development, training, internal promotion and career advancement.
- Being part of an Employee\-Owned Trust, with potential for yearly bonus.
- Company pension scheme.
- Access to free counselling services and support from our in\-house therapeutic team.
- Free meals for shift workers.
- Cycle Scheme.
- Tech Scheme.
- Blue Light scheme eligibility.
Starley Hall provides bespoke packages of care and education for children and young people aged 10\-21 years. All our children and young people present with complex needs and vulnerabilities and require nurturing, compassionate, understanding, knowledgeable, attuned staff to provide the very highest standard of care and protection.
Our service is dedicated to meeting the needs of young people who have complex emotional, behavioural and learning needs. The service has developed over decades to reflect the changing needs of looked after children and the best practice principles that underpin a positive care experience. It is staffed by three integrated teams providing care, education, and therapeutic supports.
We are looking to recruit Bank Residential Child Care Workers who are looking for a flexible role and are passionate about working with children, recognising their potential and understanding the challenges that they may present. Bank Residential Care Workers play a vital role within our houses and school care accommodation service, the role will be challenging, so ideally suited to someone with resilience, creativity, and personal and professional drive. The role will be hugely rewarding with lots of opportunities to learn and develop.
The main responsibilities of this role include
- To provide high standards of nurturing, attuned care to children and young people with complex needs and vulnerabilities.
- To ensure the safety and protection of young people is of paramount consideration and to follow the guidance incorporated in our child protection policy.
- To work as part of an effective team upholding the Health and Social Care Standards and the principles and core values of The Promise.
- To undertake key worker duties and ensure that all aspects of a child’s support plans are kept up to date.
- To work as part of a multi\-disciplinary team, communicating to a high standard with internal and external colleagues.
- To build therapeutic relationships with children and young people that are founded on trust, love, understanding and acceptance.
- To engage and encourage children’s participation in school, play, activities, hobbies, and support quality time with family and friends.
- To attend team meetings and contribute to the running of the house, providing creative solutions and suggestions for positive change.
- To complete reports, records, care plans to a high standard.
- To embrace training and development opportunities that will enhance your knowledge and skills.
- Previous experience of working with young people with complex needs and vulnerabilities, nurturing and therapeutic approach to building relationships.
- SVQ 3 and/or HNC in Social Care is desirable but not essential as having the right values would be a core requirement for this post. We would accept candidates who are prepared to work towards these qualifications, or if you have experience in the social care sector and/or can demonstrate transferable skills and knowledge.
- Resilient, solution focussed, supportive, flexible, can\-do attitude, creative, caring and understanding.
- Child centred values and practice, with a clear understanding of attachment, trauma and neurodiversity.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
Schedule:
- 8\-hour shift
- Weekend shifts
- Day shift
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
- Night shift
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Health \& wellbeing programme
- On\-site parking
- Sick pay
- Childcare: 1 year (required)
- United Kingdom (required)
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