Senior Residential Childcare Worker

Salary range: Grade 6 £35,250 - £36,585. plus fantastic benefits
Contract: Permanent 
Hours of work: 36 hours per week 
Location: Croydon

CALLEYDOWN SHORT BREAK CHILDRENS’ HOME

Senior Residential Childcare Care Worker Grade 6 

Salary: £35,250 - £36,585

Calleydown is a residential short break care home for Children with Learning Disabilities aged 5 to 18 years. Some of the children have associated physical disabilities with total care needs, and some have challenging behaviour.

Calleydown forms part of Croydon’s Services for Children with Disabilities Team and is located in New Addington, Croydon.  

We are looking to recruit an Internal candidate as a Senior residential childcare worker to work at Calleydown. Applicants will need to have NVQ/Diploma Level 3 In Residential Childcare or Children and Young People and have experience of working with children with complex needs.

Applicants will need to understand the additional needs children with disabilities have and be willing to offer care and support that meets their needs. The key responsibilities of a Senior Residential Childcare Worker are to manage the shift in the absence of the shift manager and support your team and the activities planned for that day.

Support and care for children and young people, offering opportunities for them to have fun, develop and learn new skills. You will be part of a team providing care to children and promoting positive outcomes. You will have direct supervision from a shift manager, and will need to be excellent at communicating, child focused and have good organisational skills. You will need to be able to demonstrate the ability to adapt to situations and have a flexible approach.

Additional skills required will be to maintain the home and carry out household and domestic tasks, complete children’s records and have computer skills for recording children’s information, as part of your role. You will also need to be confident in managing challenging behaviour and carry out permissible forms of control and physical interventions. 

The post requires you to work on regular rota pattern including some weekends and bank holidays. An enhanced DBS will be required for the successful candidate. 

Your application must evidence your experience knowledge and skills in line with the Advert, Role Profile and Person Specification.

Unfortunately, we cannot offer sponsorship for this position.

For further information please contact Jennie Pearce on 01689 842464

To apply go to: www.croydon.gov.uk

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