Casual Residential Care Officer
Job Summary
Contract Type:
Casual / Seasonal / Bank / Permanently Variable hours
Working Pattern:
As and when required
Advert Start Date:
11/02/2025
Advert End Date:
03/03/2025 23:59
Salary:
£16.63 - £18.97 per hour
Hours per week:
Please see advert text
Job Category:
Social Care - Children Service
Employment Location:
Stockton-on-Tees
Further Information
- Are you kind, caring and compassionate?
- Do you want to work in a caring role where no 2 days are the same?
- Are you interested in an enhanced training package and career progression opportunities?
- Do you want to make a difference to the lives of young people with complex needs in Stockton-on-Tees?
If this sounds like you, then we’d love to welcome you to our friendly, supportive team.
We are currently recruiting for Casual Residential Care Officers.
This is a rewarding role where you will be a positive role model for our children and young people, so if you are caring and compassionate, enthusiastic, motivated, and approachable we’d love you to join our team at Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council.
We are looking for exceptional, enthusiastic and creative, child focused people to join our well established teams of staff working across all of our Residential Homes and also our Short Breaks services for children with complex and additional needs.
The ideal candidates must also be able to effectively extend these skills to the young people’s families/carers and any other multidisciplinary professionals.
The Residential Homes care for children who are looked after by the local authority. The overall aims as a residential care officer are to ensure young people are loved, happy, healthy, safe from harm and able to develop, thrive and fulfil their full potential. It will be your responsibility to ensure young people are provided with a safe and stimulating environment ensuring young people are valued and nurtured as individuals with talents, strengths and capabilities that can develop over time.
Our Short Breaks services provide overnight, after school and day-care services for children with a range complex and additional needs.
We are continually looking to expand our services to meet the needs of children and their families/carers and are therefore looking for casual staff who will be required to work across all of the above services.
The young people we care for may have experienced a problematic history which has impacted on their development including their ability to form relationships, display socially acceptable behaviour and conform to routines and boundaries. Therefore, as a Residential Child Care officer you will be expected to be a positive role model to these young people whilst also required to undertake a wide variety of tasks to help promote each young person’s individual independence. It will be your responsibility to ensure young people are supported emotionally, mentally and physically in order to help boost self-esteem and contribute into repairing earlier damage from any past experiences. Such tasks will include positively dealing with challenging situations, problem solving, some personal care, transporting young people to contact with their families, taking part in activities, holidays, domestic and health and safety tasks around the homes.
In return, successful individuals will receive support and induction training in the first instance and will also be supported to undertake all mandatory and some non-mandatory training if working regularly.
You will need to be flexible and available to respond at short notice to cover staff holidays, sickness and in the event that extra staffing cover is required. You will be required to hold a full UK driving licence for the casual post.
Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council ensures that all customers, both internal and external receive a consistently high-quality level of service.
For more detailed information about the role, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification included in the Supporting Documents section.
Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council prides itself on being a great place to work where staff are trusted, valued and supported to make a positive contribution at work.
You will receive a competitive salary, enhancements for the role and sleepover payments where appropriate. There may also further opportunities to pick up additional hours as and when required.
The salary grade on appointment will be determined by qualifications and experience.
Take a look at the attached job description and if you want to chat more about the role, then please get in touch with Angela Barr at angela.barr@stockton.gov.uk or 07341507099.
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