Residential Childcare Worker

Are you an enthusiastic residential childcare worker ready to make a move?

Can you inspire a child in care to look to the future?

If the answer is yes, then read on!

Full time roles available working in a specialist residential home and educational setting supporting children in care to thrive. In this challenging but interesting role you will have the opportunity to support children with complexities such as, autism spectrum disorder, learning disabilities and other neurodiverities as well as children experiencing gender dysmorphia, low self esteem and associated mental health difficulties.
In addition to this you have the added bonus of working in a truly beautiful location with an emphasis on outdoor experiences and even get to work with some animals!

Salary is £15.35 day, £16.20 waking night (based on PAYE rolled up holiday pay)

What can Randstad offer a residential childcare worker?
- Rotas to fit your travel schedule - typically 2 or 3 24 hour shifts per week
- Employee discount scheme
- Unlimited friend referral bonuses
- Access to mental and financial wellbeing tools
- Casual dress
- Extensive training in industry standard courses supported by online learning
- Help with SSSC registration
- Support from within the team and a dedicated Randstad consultant
- Bi-annual prom and awards ceremony
- Opportunities to pick up ad hoc shifts

A successful residential childcare worker will be responsible for:

- Sharing responsibilities with a team of residential childcare workers
- Supporting the social and educational needs of children by accompanying them into classroom environments
- Develop and carry out engaging activities based on the interests of the young people in the house
- Act as a key worker to some children and support them on a one to one basis
- Actively identify potential risks or escalation points and use positive behaviour management techniques
- Co-ordinating wider care team to ensure consistency of care and messaging for young people
- Maintaining professional manner and working to National Care Standards

To be successful in your residential childcare worker application, you will:
- Have previous experience working in a care setting with young people
- Demonstrate understanding of legislation, behaviour management techniques and attachment theory
- Have strong communication skills, you may be asked to work with non-verbal children
- Register under the PVG scheme
- Full driving licence
- Obtained SVQ level 3 in Health and Social Care, or equivalent

If this sounds like the position for you, don't delay!

Apply now and one of our team may call you for an informal chat to take your application to the next stage.

Not the role for you?

We are always looking for talented residential support workers across Scotland, head over to the Randstad website for all roles!

Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.

Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.

experience

Children services

skills

be able to manage challenging situations,be person centred,can work as an individual or part of a team,caring,critical thinking,emotional intelligence,empathy,handling medication,oral communication,organisational,passionate,patience,report writing (incident logs and daily plans etc),resilient,show initiative,time management