Working hours: 25 hours, these hours will be worked on a rotating basis, if you require further information on the available hours, please contact the recruiting manager using the details provided below.
Contract Type: Permanent, Part Time
Location: Various locations throughout the borough
This is an exciting opportunity to join Team Caerphilly and provide support across the wider Placement, Provision and Support Team.
We pay an attractive salary of £17,852 - £19,439 and offer access to training and development opportunities.Caerphilly County Borough Council continues to invest in our children's residential provisions within the Borough. We would like to recruit staff who have the right values, motivation, and commitment to work in this rewarding yet challenging role.
This is an exciting opportunity and with this in mind, we are looking to recruit a Residential Child Care Worker - Waking Night. As a Waking Nights Officer, you will play an essential part in providing care and effective support to young people to enable them to achieve positive outcomes in line with their personal plan.
You will be awake on duty at all times throughout the night to monitor, support and respond to young people's individual needs and the requirements/instruction of the on-call managers. We will need you to take responsibility for providing a safe and supportive environment and work closely with the team to implement and manage sensitively the routine night time care arrangements for young people in our care.
We are seeking enthusiastic, nurturing, hands-on people who ideally have experience working with complex and challenging behaviors. Successful candidates will work in a multi-agency manner to support and promote the welfare and needs of young people with a high level of complex needs.
Previous experience of working in a children's residential home is advantageous. We offer an excellent induction and training package, including supporting employees to attain sector specific qualifications that will support your professional development. We also provide training and support to enable you to work in a therapeutic, relational manner. On-going supervision is offered where training, development and personals need are addressed.
Intervention with the young people will be provided through a therapeutic approach and will primarily focus on working with young people in a relational manner as well as providing an emotionally secure, consistent, warm, supportive and caring environment for the young people and to encourage their social, physical, emotional, intellectual and moral development so that they may realise their own potential.
Successful candidates will work in tandem with colleagues to achieve a child centered environment where the needs of our young people are at the forefront of the work we do. You will require a proactive approach, supporting children and young people by engaging with them in various activities as well as supporting their education to facilitate their physical and psychological development. Successful applicants will conduct themselves in a profession manner at all times while representing the Local Authority.
For the role, we ask that you: - Are dedicated to complete, if not already registered, the All Wales Induction Framework within a set time frame to enable registration with Social Care Wales.
- Hold a Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care (Children and Young People) or equivalent (applicants who do not hold the required qualification will be expected to complete this, along with the new core award as part of the role and in line with legislative requirements; on-going support will be provided for individuals to complete the award.)
- Have a basic knowledge of legislation relevant to the role and demonstrate compliance with the Authority's policies and procedures at all times.
- Hold a full UK Category B (Cars) driving licence to drive a Council vehicle to transport children, young people on a regular basis.
We have excellent benefits including the Local Government Pension Scheme, agile working patterns and staff discount schemes.
To view the Job Description and Person Specification please select the relevant attachment from the attachments list
After reading the Job Description and Person Specification, if you would like to have an informal discussion about the role, please contact Adam Green on 01443 811481 or email Willik19@caerphilly.gov.uk.
Applications may be submitted in Welsh. Any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.
We are legally required to ask you to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. Successful applicants are required to provide appropriate documentation such as a birth certificate, passport or work permit in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.
If you have any difficulty applying online, please contact webrecruitment@caerphilly.gov.uk for further information.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974) and a comprehensive screening process will be undertaken on all successful applicants. This will include an enhanced check with the Disclosure and Barring Service.
The Social Care Wales (Registration) Rules 2023 set out the requirement for all residential childcare workers, domiciliary care workers, adult care home workers, residential family centre workers to be registered with Social Care Wales within six months from your start date in post.