Acorn Education and Care Hiring for Residential Childcare Worker Job at Nottingham, England , UK Full Time

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Everyone deserves an incredible future – become a Residential Childcare Worker with Acorn Education and Care and start working towards yours!

Role: Residential Childcare Worker

Salary: £22,141.60 – £22,516 per annum (£9.52 – £9.70 ph) including an average of 1 sleep in per week. (£45 per extra sleep)

Hours: 40 hours per week plus sleep ins

Location: Sherwood, Nottingham

Our home is part of an 8-home cluster and is within commutable distance from Nottingham, Derby, Mansfield and surrounds

We are recruiting Residential Childcare Workers to join our teams within the Nottingham area. Your empathy and warmth will enable you to support vulnerable children aged 7-18 with social, emotional and mental health difficulties (SEMH). This means that the Children we care for may have experienced challenging or traumatic upbringings and may have difficulties with anxiety, mental health or in some cases self-harm. That’s why we’re looking for calm, conscientious and kind people who can take care of the daily needs of the children– vital help that can transform their lives!

Part of this exciting and challenging role allows you to chaperone the children to appointments and activities such as shopping or trips to the zoo, but you will also need to complete relevant paperwork, undertake household tasks, personal care and where appropriate administer medication.

You’ll play a key role in the smooth-running of the site and you’ll have a good grasp of safeguarding and safety and hygiene. This is a role in which attention to detail really counts – and one that touches the real lives of people every day.

Why join Acorn Education and Care?

Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including:

• Up to 39 days annual leave each year (25 base entitlement + 1 One moment in time + 8 bank holidays + ability to buy up to 5 extra days)
• Life Assurance
• Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
• “Your Wellbeing Matters” – access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including:

• A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
• 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
• Cycle to Work Schemes
• Electric Car Purchase Scheme
• Critical illness cover

And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the children and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all employees to share this commitment and undertake appropriate checks.

Care assistant/ Support worker/ Children’s care worker/ Nights/ Children development /Working with children/ SEMH