About Halliwell:
Halliwell has recently restructured as an Employee Ownership Trust meaning greater engagement opportunities for all colleagues in the improvement of the business as well as greater benefits and rewards when the business performs well and achieves great outcomes for the children in its care.
We would like to hear from caring, enthusiastic and dedicated team players with a can-do approach who really care about the needs of young people. You will be respectful, empathetic, positive, accountable, reflective, engaged, nurturing and tenacious. You will enjoy working with children and young people and create a safe, caring and supportive place to live for the children that are part of the Restorative Parenting® programme.
About the role:
As a Senior Therapeutic Parent (Residential Childcare Senior Support Worker) you will be joining the company at an exciting and compelling time. You will be rewarded with a highly competitive starting salary of £32,760 - £34,840 per annum (dependant on experience on qualification). The position is offered on a full time, permanent basis contracted to 48 hours per week where you will complete a 2 on 4 off rolling rota to enable you with the work/life balance and job satisfaction. All sleeps are inclusive of the 48 hours per week and paid at your usual hourly rate.
Role responsibilities:
- You will support the home managers and assist in the day-to-day running of the home providing guidance and support to the Therapeutic Parents.
- You will ensure a therapeutic, safe, healthy, and homely environment is in place and allows the children to thrive and develop meeting Ofsted’s Quality Standards.
- This will include domestic duties and paperwork/record keeping working closely with managers, clinical and education teams to provide tailored psychological recovery programmes for each child.
- You will be committed to continual professional development including training in Restorative Parenting® to enable the psychological recovery of children.
- To contribute to the development of the child through the provision of a therapeutic home environment and being a committed and consistent adult role model.
- To be assigned as a key worker or co-key worker to a Halliwell child and to provide a high standard level of care throughout.
- To provide warmth and care for our children providing personal care needs, cooking, cleaning, washing, shopping and budgeting pocket monies or by promoting our children to carry out such tasks themselves, where appropriate.
- To ensure pocket money / petty cash receipts are retained for financial auditing records.
- To support the child with onsite or mainstream education attendance completing homework and other school related activities.
- To follow the children’s care plans and risk assessments and carry out job role in accordance with Halliwell’s childcare policies and procedures at all times.
- To understand and adhere to all policies and procedure within Halliwell Homes and the Homes Standard Operating Procedures.
- To complete and comply with all risk assessments in place and update, where required.
- To ensure you as a Senior Therapeutic Parent complete the log book throughout your shift.
- To ensure that all staff on shift, complete daily c sheets and records in the evening.
- To complete children’s file audits on a monthly basis.
- To ensure that you and the team meet Health and Safety requirements and they are updated and maintained to standards as required by Ofsted.
Role requirements:
- Minimum 2 year Experience in Residential Childcare
- Must hold Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare
- Minimum 6 months experience in a Senior position
- Shift lead experience and on-call requirement (where required)
- Coaching and Mentoring experience
What we can offer:
- Join our well established and core residential teams becoming part of the Employee Ownership Trust with Halliwell Homes.
- Receive a competitive salary package paying above the Real Living Wage and access to a competitive career pathway including access to professional qualification studies funded up to Level 7 (Masters).
- Length of Service Bonus Scheme.
- Voluntary overtime payments of 1.5 hours for completed voluntary overtime on weekends and bank holidays.
- Birthday Bonus Scheme.
- Refer a Friend Scheme up to £1400.
- Free annual GymPass Membership.
- Free access to Perkbox Account.
- Free access to Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).
- Free access to your own personal Financial Awareness Planning.
- Free access to a company laptop and Mobile phone (role relevant).
- Free access to well-being initiatives.
- Free access to counselling services
- Free on-site Parking.
- Auto-Enrolment Pension Scheme.
- Job satisfaction.
- Comprehensive training, professional development opportunities and the support of senior colleagues.
If you feel you could make a difference to enhance the well-being and lives of the children we support then click "apply now."
We would encourage you to apply early on as we reserve the right to close a job advert early where sufficient applications have been received without prior notice.
Halliwell is an equal opportunities employer and all applications received will be considered on the basis of their merit alone and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of background. All offers of employment will be conditional on the candidate having and securing satisfactory safer recruitment compliance checks.
Halliwell follows safer recruitment when recruiting employees for all roles within the organisation at it is paramount that all applications are aware of their responsibilities when working with vulnerable children. All post holders are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure Barring Services (DBS)
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Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £34,726.00-£36,930.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Financial planning services
- Free parking
- Gym membership
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Store discount
Experience:
- Residential childcare: 2 years (required)
Licence/Certification:
- Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare? (required)
- UK Drivers Licence (required)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Willingness to travel:
- 25% (preferred)
Work Location: In person