Overview
Children’s Residential Care Worker – NN3 7XE
Our Benefits
- 28 days’ annual leave, plus 8 Bank Holidays (pro rata for part time) and an additional 5 days, after 5 years
- Local Government Pension Scheme plus immediate life cover (3 times your annual salary from day one) and ill-health pension protection.
- Opportunity to purchase up to 25 days annual leave
- We will pay for you to complete qualifications including NVQ Level 3 or equivalent
- Employee Assistance Programme – We have an employee support programme run by Health Assured, an independent, external organisation. Health Assured is available for you and your immediate family members, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year and includes telephone counselling, legal advice, bereavement support and medical information.
- Employee discounts with local and national retailers, days out, finance, health and beauty, travel and eating out plus lots more.
- Flexible and family working arrangements including enhanced maternity benefits
- A permanent, supportive and inclusive management team where you will be empowered to make good professional decisions
- Extensive Learning & Development and career development opportunities
- Free parking on site plus heavily subsidised town centre car parking scheme
- Free meals whilst on shift
About the role
About the role:
Are you looking for a varied, challenging and rewarding position where you can help young people?
As one of our Residential Care workers you will be working in a four bedded residential home housing young people with autism spectrum disorder and learning disabilities.
We have two full time fixed term contracts available, one for 6 months and one up to the end July 2026
You will work a mixture of early and late shifts and alternative weekends with enhancements paid on top of the basic hourly rate for unsocial hours, Sunday/ Bank Holiday working and standby shifts. 7:00 – 2:30pm early shift, 2:00pm-9:30pm late shift, 9:15pm – 7:15am Night shift. There is also an opportunity for overtime.
We welcome the opportunity to speak to any interested candidates so please feel free to email: Claire.Murr@nctrust.co.uk and they can agree a mutually agreeable time to call you
We reserve the right to close this vacancy before the closing date should we receive sufficient applications so would encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.
About you
You need to be self-motivated, enthusiastic, patient and flexible amongst other things. You will find it easy to establish and build positive relationships with Young People.
You will have a nurturing nature with a child centric approach to the support you give whether that be personal care or creating tailored experiences for our children.
Applicants must hold a full UK driving licence, as you will be driving our Young People to appointments or activities.
Experience of working with young people with Autism in either a professional or voluntary capacity is desirable, as is evidence of an ongoing interest and commitment to young people.
This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore subject to an enhanced DBS certificate. It is also a regulated activity and will be subject to a Barred List check
Please note we do not offer sponsorship for this role so you should have the right to work in the UK without restrictions.
When applying please ensure your supporting statement covers how you fulfil the essential criteria set out in the person specification as this will be used to shortlist. You will need to provide a full employment history including any gaps since leaving full time education
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
