Therapeutic Support Worker x West Lodge, Children’s Residential Home
Advertised are full time, open-ended positions for 37 hours per week.
West Lodge is an established Children’s Residential Home, based in St Ishmaels, Haverfordwest. Here we will provide temporary residence to 10-17 year olds who have encountered a range of adverse childhood experiences.
We are seeking experienced Support Workers to support us in delivering a dynamic, person centred service on an operational level. In this role, you will take designated responsibility for overseeing shifts at West Lodge in line with Care inspectorate Wales regulations.
The team is structured on an annualised, rota basis including evenings, nights & weekends to ensure that West Lodge continues to provide a consistently warm, safe, welcoming, happy, friendly and nurturing environment. Flexibility would be expected.
Benefits include:
- Generous Annual Leave of up to 31 days
- Additional allowance for weekend and night working
- Membership of the Local Government ‘career average' defined benefit pension scheme
- A wide range of resources to support your health and wellbeing, including a professional in-house occupational health service and access to counselling services
- Generous occupational maternity and paternity pay plan, on top of statutory benefits
- Salary sacrifice car and cycle schemes
The role includes an 8% enhancement for weekend working and an additional 8% enhancement for qualifying unsocial hours. You will also receive a standby/sleep-in payment of £40.76 per sleep-in, with a contractual requirement to complete 64 sleep-ins per year, providing an annual value of £2,608.64. In addition, the position offers a £3,000 Golden Hello payment, subject to the applicable terms and conditions. Overall, this package provides significant additional earnings on top of the base salary through enhancements, sleep-in payments, and the one-off recruitment incentive.
To comply with the Care Standards Inspectorate for Wales requirements, applicants must be at least 21 years old and hold NVQ 3 in Caring for Children or Children and Young People or willingness to work towards this qualification.
This post is subject to a DBS disclosure check.
Employee Benefits
Our employee benefits are designed to help invest in your future and are in addition to living and working in Pembrokeshire, one of the most beautiful and desirable counties in the UK. For further details, please refer to the Employee Benefits leaflet attached.
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Please refer to the job description above for more details on this vacancy and the person specification.
Employment Checks
This post is subject to a DBS disclosure check.
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Please note that at this point, Pembrokeshire County Council is not accepting applicants who require a Skilled Worker visa as a prerequisite to a right to work in the UK. Applicants should ensure they have the right to work in the UK before applying for a vacancy.
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The Supported Employment Programme is a group of local authority based enterprises that employs over 75 people with a disability or work limiting health condition, please visit the link below for further information: Pembrokeshire Supported Employment Programme - Pembrokeshire County Council
Safeguarding
Safeguarding and protecting children and adults at risk is a high priority for Pembrokeshire County Council. We aim to support vulnerable children and adults at risk to ensure they are as safe as they can possibly be. We are committed to ensuring their safety and will take action to safeguard their well-being. The Council’s Corporate Safeguarding Policy provides a framework for every member of staff and Service within the Council, setting out responsibilities in relation to safeguarding and protecting children and adults at risk as well as the methods by which the Council will be assured that it is fulfilling its duties.
This policy applies to all Council employees and workforce, councillors, volunteers and also service providers that are commissioned by the Council. Safeguarding is everyone's business whether they work for, or on behalf of, the Council.
Support & Additional Info
- Please contact the HR Systems Team as early as possible if you're unable to apply online by emailing hrsystemsteam@pembrokeshire.gov.uk.
- Please contact the Recruitment Team if you have any queries relating to this vacancy by emailing Recruit@pembrokeshire.gov.uk.
- Local Government Employees on National Joint Council (NJC) terms are subject to national pay bargaining; all salaries currently stated in our adverts are as 01/04/2025.
- Please note, we have a legal obligation to consider employees for suitable alternative employment if their posts are at risk; therefore prior consideration will be given to existing employees who meet the person specification and are registered on our redeployment pool.
Welsh language skills are desirable. Applications may be submitted in Welsh and will not be treated less favourably than applications submitted in English.
