About us

Are you passionate about making a real difference for children and young people. In Warrington all our children’s homes are Ofsted rated GOOD or OUTSTANDING. We have an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to be one of 6 senior Residential care workers  of our new children’s home.

In partnership with our health colleagues we are opening an innovative residential and outreach service for children with complex needs that aims to support children and young people to live at home and in their communities.

We are looking for experienced and inspiring leaders who share our passion for supporting our most vulnerable children.

The home will consist of a registered homes manager two deputy managers, a team of senior residential staff, residential care workers, wake night staff and health staff.

The home will offer outreach to families who require support to remain together as well as 4 short to medium term beds registered under the children’s homes regulations 2015.

The successful candidate will benefit from Warrington’s councils’ employees support and rewards program, competitive rates of pay. They will also be part of a group of 7 experienced registered managers and 8 deputy managers in the authority that meet regularly with the service manager to share best practice.

In Warrington we always put children first. Our children in care services were rated as OUTSTANDING in 2024 so come and join us as we continue to develop and improve our services even further! 

The role

The core purpose of this job is to proactively provide the support and interventions to young people so they can reach their potential. The post holder will be responsible for the direct day-to-day care of young people within a residential home with complex mental health needs accompanied by other supportive tasks and duties. In addition the post holder will hold a case of outreach families were they will plan and deliver tailored outreach support to families to prevent admissions in to care.

The post holder will support in the supervision of staff and have the opportunity to be on a paid  on call rota supporting the residential estate out of hours.

The post holder will be required to work a rota including shift work, weekend work and sleep in duties. Additionally, the post holder will also provide support to young people on the edge of care, accommodated in the various other hub placements, and care leavers (including post 18). The post holder will have the required interpersonal skills to adopt relationship-based practice, in keeping with our systemic practice model. The post holder will mange outreach caseloads while delivering bespoke packages of direct care via the outreach arm of the service.

What's needed?

Please see attached Job specification

Benefits

As well as a competitive salary, working for us means you get:

• 26 days annual holiday - raising to 31 after 5 years of service (pro-rata)
• Access to our attractive and competitive benefits package
• Access to our Health & Wellbeing Programme

Key Dates & Further Information

The closing date for this post will be 19/12/2024

Interviews will be on the 23/12/2024

DBS clearance is required.

Warrington Borough Council is a Disability Confident employer