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Residential Care Officer

Job Summary
Contract Type:
Permanent
Working Pattern:
Full time
Advert Start Date:
24/10/2024
Advert End Date:
10/11/2024 23:59
Salary:
£30,296 - £33,024 per annum
Hours per week:
37
Job Category:
Social Care - Children Service
Vacancy ID:
271074
Employment Location:
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Post Number:
CES761(e)
Number of posts:
Various
Closing date:
10 Nov
Further Information
This is an exciting time to be working for Newcastle’s Residential Homes for Children with investments made in our current workforce and development of our existing estate and new provisions.  

Newcastle City Council’s Homes for Children have recently created the role of Senior Residential Care Officer, providing a career pathway for our staff. The creation of this new role has led to a number of successful internal promotions and has opened several Residential Care Officer vacancies across all of our homes. 

The successful applicants will need to be resourceful, highly resilient with the ability to establish relationships quickly whilst working as part of a team towards agreed aims and objectives. Applicants must be able to demonstrate the ability to work with highly challenging behaviour and have a high level of resilience. We are committed to providing quality care and achieving positive outcomes for the young people we look after.

You will also be highly motivated, have good communication and IT skills and a clear understanding of needs of children and their families. Experience of residential care and an NVQ level 3 in children’s health and social care or above is essential for these posts. The successful applicants will be required to work shifts including evening and weekend work, as well as sleep-ins and night shifts as required. Additional payments during unsociable hours are also applicable to this post.

We are committed to protecting and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all staff to share this commitment.  This post is working in regulated activity.  If you are successful, we will undertake additional recruitment checks which will include a check to see if you have had any criminal convictions, a check of police information and we will check the barred list(s).  It is a criminal offence for a barred individual to apply for a job in regulated activity.  

Should you wish to discuss the positions please contact:
Mary Marsh Mary.marsh@newcastle.gov.uk,
Matt Garnett Matthew.garnett@newcastle.gov.uk
Reinder Dam Reinder.dam@newcastle.gov.uk

Apply online at www.northeastjobs.org.uk, select 'Apply Now' and complete our online application form. Any communication sent to you regarding your application will be sent to the email address you have set up on your Northeast Jobs account, so you will need to ensure that you check your inbox.
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