Residential Children & Young Peoples Worker in Coalville - Barnardo's

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Are you looking for a rewarding new challenge? Do you enjoy working with children and young people and making a positive impact in their lives? We have an exciting opportunity to join Marjorie House, our beautiful Emotional Wellbeing Assessment Home in Coalville. Supporting children and young people aged 8-18, the home provides short-term placements for up to three young people at a time, offering a safe and nurturing environment where they can explore new experiences, build friendships, and develop confidence, independence, and emotional resilience.

Key Responsibilities:

As a Residential Support Worker, you will:

• Build trusting, nurturing relationships that promote each young person's independence, wellbeing, and personal growth.
• Work collaboratively with parents/carers and professionals to support holistic care.
• Contribute to the day-to-day running of the home, including cooking, cleaning, and maintaining a welcoming environment.
• Accurately document and maintain records in line with safeguarding and regulatory standards.
• Promote and maintain a safe, supportive environment at all times.
• Uphold safeguarding policies and procedures to ensure the protection of all service users.

Essential Requirements

To be successful in this role, you must evidence in your application:

*Hold aLevel 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare , or be willing to achieve this within the required timeframe.

• Be motivated by the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in young people's lives.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of safeguarding and child protection.
  
  *Be flexible and committed to workingsleep-ins, shifts, weekends, and bank holidays .
• Have relevant experience working with children and young people (desirable but not essential with the right attitude and willingness to learn).

About the Service:

Barnardo's, the UK's largest children's charity, is proud to be working in partnership with Leicestershire County Council to deliver a range of innovative children's homes for the most vulnerable young people in the region.

While Marjorie House will be your primary base, occasional travel across Leicestershire may be required to support other homes.

Interested? For more information, please contact Sean Fagan -

When completing your application, please refer to the Person Specification , Job Description , and Additional Information document (if applicable) and demonstrate how your skills, knowledge, and experience align with the role.

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.

Pay & Reward Framework

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo'svalues. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.*

For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of ourPeople & CultureStrategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.

Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band - this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.

Benefits

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.

• Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

*T&C's apply based on contract

About Barnardo's

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled,...