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Pebbles Care Limited; Patterdale; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 37,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Medicash health plan

Meals on shift

Annual leave

Job summary

Pebbles Care Limited is recruiting Residential Child Care Workers across our North West services, including Carlisle, Penrith, Carnforth and surrounding areas. This role involves supporting children in a home setting, driving to appointments and activities, and helping with meals and daily chores while delivering a caring, therapeutic approach.

You will work full-time on a rota (56.4 hours per week including sleep hours), with induction and ongoing professional development.

Qualifications

• Experience working with children and young people in supportive roles.
• Ability to maintain a nurturing, therapeutic environment in challenging situations.
• Commitment to safety, wellbeing and safeguarding best practices.

Responsibilities

• Drive children to and from school, appointments and visits (UK manual driving licence required).
• Prepare meals and assist with household chores within the home setting.
• Support children on a one-to-one or two-to-one basis as part of a team.
• Engage in activities, outings and holidays to build positive memories.
• Collaborate with Learning and Development and senior teams for ongoing guidance.

Skills

Driving licence

Resilience

Caring approach

Teamwork

Job description

If you enjoy working with children and have the resilience to deal with challenging behaviours while still being able to offer a caring and supportive therapeutic approach, then we would love to hear from you.

Pebbles Care is recruiting Residential Child Care Workers across our North West services, including Carlisle, Penrith, Carnforth and surrounding areas. This is an exciting opportunity to join one of our established teams and make a genuine difference to the lives of children and young people.

Pebbles Care has an incredible opportunity for you to work in partnership with our established team and become an essential part of our children’s lives. This will include every aspect of home life, from driving our children to and from school, appointments, and visits (a full UK manual driving licence is required) to food preparation, household chores, and making lasting memories through fun-filled activities, outings, and holidays.

Your role as a Residential Child Care Worker

You will be employed full-time as a dedicated team member, averaging 56.4 hours per week, including sleep hours. Working collaboratively with your team on shift, you will provide support tailored to the young person's needs, either one-to-one or two-to-one.

During your induction, you will learn about our therapeutic care model in training with our Learning and Development team. Our Psychology, Education, and Senior Management Team will also help you with expert support and guidance.

You will be based within one home on a full-time basis. However, you may occasionally be required to support other homes within the same geographical area.

What we offer you

A starting salary of £35,468.95 to £37,043.94 per annum, pro rata, depending on experience.

Full-time roles operate on a rota pattern of one day on (24 hours, including sleepover) and two days off (48 hours).

Your average weekly working hours, including sleepovers, are 56.4. If you require flexibility, we may have part-time and zero-hour contracts available.

You will receive 5.6 weeks annual leave per annum (this will be pro-rata for part-time contracts)

Our Learning and Development team can support you to receive 100% funding for your Level 3 SVQ /NVQ qualification in Residential Child Care.

Upon completing your induction, training, and minimum qualifications, you will receive a career review.

Auto-enrolment into our salary sacrifice pension scheme (Scottish Widows)

A cash-back health care plan via Medicash allows you to claim for dental and optical treatments, discounted gym memberships, 24/7 access to a GP, free access to counselling and much more.

Meals are provided while on shift, depending on the home's daily menu choice.

What sets Pebbles apart from other care providers?

We strive to be the best and lead the way in providing personalised therapeutic care and education.

We provide a clearly defined developmental pathway and recently integrated a leadership development plan for those who wish to progress.

Pebbles has fifty-six beautiful homes and three established schools for children and young people in North England and Scotland.

We specialise in providing residential child care and education for young people between ages 8 and 18.

With nearly 23 years of experience, we have the skills and knowledge to guide young people toward brighter futures.