Senior Residential Support Worker - Contextual Safeguarding Home

Job description

Senior Residential Support Worker

Location: Hinckley, Leicestershire Full-time | Permanent

Are you ready for a rewarding new challenge? Do you have experience supporting children and young people and a passion for helping them reach their full potential?

Barnardo's is seeking a committed and compassionate Senior Residential Support Worker to join our new Contextual Safeguarding Home, Hopes Place, in Hinckley. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of an innovative service supporting some of Leicestershire's most vulnerable children and young people.

About the Service

As the UK's largest children's charity, Barnardo's is working in partnership with Leicestershire County Council to develop and deliver a range of residential homes across the county.

Hopes Place our beautiful new home in Hinckley support children & young people between 8-18 years facing risks around exploitation, by identifying and responding to harm and abuse posed to them outside of their home environment and understanding the importance of intervention. The service provide up to 3 service users at any one-time opportunities to enjoy different experiences, establish friendships and develop confidence, independence and social/emotional skills..

Some of the responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to:

• Build trusted, nurturing relationships that promote children's wellbeing, independence, and strengths.
• Lead, guide, and support Residential Support Workers in their daily duties.
• Work collaboratively with families, carers, and external professionals to achieve the best outcomes for young people.
• Contribute to the smooth running of the home, including household tasks such as cooking and maintaining a welcoming environment.
• Ensure accurate and timely recording of information and reports.
• Uphold safeguarding policies and procedures at all times.
• Promote a safe, caring, and supportive environment for children and colleagues.
• Act as a positive role model, helping young people develop valuable life and social skills.

Essential requirements to evidence in your written application:

• A valid UK driving licence.
• A Level 3 qualification relevant to Residential Childcare, or willingness to complete the qualification within the required timeframe.
• Experience working with children and young people.
• At least one year's experience in a supervisory or shift-leading role within a residential care setting.
• A strong understanding of safeguarding practices and procedures.
• Flexibility to work shifts, including weekends and bank holidays.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and relationship-building skills.

Interested?

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Jen Pickup at [email protected].

When completing your application, please demonstrate how your skills, knowledge, and experience meet the requirements outlined in the Person Specification, Job Description, and Additional Information document, taking into account the context of this specialist service.

Please note: Due to the high volume of applications we receive, vacancies may close before the advertised closing date. We encourage early applications to avoid disappointment.

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's values . 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 our People & Culture Strategy. 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 Buy Your Leave 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, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.