Senior Residential Care Worker

Calling all senior residential children's care workers. If you share our passion for improving the lives of young people, providing them with the best possible experiences while with us, and giving them the greatest opportunities to thrive when they leave the safety of our care. If you want to learn, grow, and progress with an 'Outstanding' company that is committed to doing its best for its young people as well as its staff. And if you want to work in one of our three idyllic Peak District settings, then this could be the opportunity you're looking for.

On the back of growth and internal promotions, here at Arnfield Care, we are looking for the next batch of like-minded senior residential care superstars to join our ranks. We have full-time roles available and might be able to consider part-time positions for the right senior candidates, too.

Key aspects of children's residential care work:

• Ensuring each young person is safe and cared for effectively, addressing care, education, social, emotional, cultural, therapeutic and health needs
• Exercising appropriate control over children and young people at all times
• Leading, supervising and supporting staff members at junior levels as they provide round-the-clock care and support that is consistent with the Homes quality standards and Statement of Purpose
• Assisting the Homes Management team in ensuring that policies, procedures and record-keeping measures are adhered to, and resources are deployed effectively and efficiently
• Covering various shifts including early mornings, late evenings, and sleep-ins, on weekdays, weekends, and Bank Holidays, within the Homes and on residential trips
• Working in partnership with senior management, parents, families, carers, and other professionals such as Local Authorities, schools, health professionals etc, to advocate for, safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people
• Covering various shifts including early mornings, late evenings, and sleep-ins, on weekdays, weekends, and Bank Holidays, within the Homes and on residential trips
• Promoting an organisational culture which values every team members contribution and is intolerant of discrimination in any form
• Maintaining the highest levels of confidentiality

Established in 1997 and based in the High Peak area of Derbyshire, we are an outstanding, small, and proudly independent provider of high-quality therapeutic residential care and on-site education for children and young people. We support young people, aged 1117, to deal with trauma resulting from a wide range of complex social, emotional and behavioural challenges in their formative years, helping them to rebuild trust, develop independence, and move forward with confidence.

Our care workers, therapists and educators pride themselves on being nurturing and supportive, and our approach is grounded in building warm, consistent, respectful and structured relationships tailored to individual needs, whether a young person is with us for a relatively short period of intensive crisis intervention work or here on a longer-term placement as they transition towards semi-independence. That's why we achieve consistently successful outcomes with young people, why staff stay with us and build long-term careers, and why we are recognised by Ofsted as an exemplar to others.

We offer:

• £14.35 - £15.43 per hour, dependent on qualifications and experience
• £70.50 per sleep-in
• A Minimum of 30 days' holiday, rising to 35 days
• A great work/life balance
• Company pension
• Loyalty & referral bonuses, ranging from £50 - £500, plus perks and discounts
• A comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7/365
• Fully funded training
• Long-term career progression

We employ people not paper!

Some of our best candidates senior carers bring a variety of transferable skills and valuable life experiences to their roles, making them excellent recruits for our team. Their knowledge of appropriate boundaries and innate ability to make connections with young people, combined with previous vocational training and in-situ learning are key to why we achieve consistently successful outcomes with young people.

We employ a diverse workforce that can empathise with the cultures our young people come from and the issues they face. People who have learned important lessons from the school of life often have the greatest impact on vulnerable children and young people who have already experienced significant challenges and trauma.

Arnfield Care Ltd stands against discrimination, oppression, and exclusion in any form. We have created working environments in which all individuals can make the best use of their skills, free from discrimination or harassment. We endeavour to make all necessary reasonable adjustments for individual employees and base all decisions relating to an individual's employment purely on merit. Whether it's your ethnicity, cultural heritage, religion, sex, gender identity, age or any other trait that you think might count against you, it won't. If you're disabled, have a criminal record, or left school with no qualifications or come from a care-experienced background, don't let it stop you from applying for a role with us. The very nature of what we do makes us non-judgemental. It's not about pieces of paper or the look of someone, it's about the person, what they have on the inside and, crucially, what they can give to the young people in our care.

We don't just pay lip service to the regulations either. We are an accredited level two disability-confident employer and we were one of the first businesses nationally to sign up to become a fully-fledged age-friendly employer. All staff are equally responsible for safeguarding and promoting equal opportunities and for challenging any behaviour or practice that discriminates against any young person or colleague.

You must

• Be eligible to work in the UK
• Have a full manual driving licence
• Possess a good standard of both written and spoken English
• Have previous experience working in children's residential care settings (or similar) for a minimum of two years
• Have demonstrable experience leading shifts/teams
• Have a level 3/4 in residential Childcare (or equivalent)
• Possess a strong teamwork ethic and have good communication skills, especially when guiding and mentoring junior staff
• Have an ability to relate to, communicate with, and calm children and young people, especially those presenting challenging behaviour
• Be emotionally resilient and self-confident, while a splash of long-term ambition always helps
• Be prepared to promote equal opportunities and to challenge any behaviour or practice that discriminates against any young person or colleague.
• Have the ability to work flexibly and unsupervised on occasions, according to the needs of the service
• Be able to commit to full-time sleep-ins and, potentially, short residential trips away with young people.

If you think youve got what it takes, please register your interest now by sending us an up-to-date CV and covering letter.

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