Casual Residential Child Care Worker | Residential Services | North Lancashire

Job title:

Casual Residential Child Care Worker | Residential Services | North Lancashire

Company

Lancashire County Council

Job description

Job Category: Social Care – ChildrenJob Description:Casual Residential Child Care Social Worker | £14.13 per hour | Casual various hours to suitInternational Sponsorship – this role is not open to international sponsorshipWho are we …Our Children’s Residential Service are expanding with the introduction of four new children’s homes and an Adolescent Support Unit over the next two years. This means that we have a number of exciting opportunities for a number of different vacancies across Lancashire – Heysham, Lancaster, Preston, Chorley, Bamber Bridge, Accrington, Clitheroe, Burnley, Great Harwood, and Skelmersdale.As a Residential Service we hold very strong views and beliefs that our children deserve the very best care and support that we can offer. We pride ourselves in developing positive, meaningful, and lifelong relationships with our children.With an emphasis on working creatively, we promote lots of fun activities for our children inside and outside the homes and ensure that our children and young person are supported to develop in all areas of lifeCould you work in a children’s homes?As a Residential Child Care Worker, you would work from a children’s home where children and young people aged between 11 years and 17 years live. Residential Child Care Workers eat and sleep at the home with the children and young people and undertake basic household tasks – cleaning, cooking, shopping.Our children are not able to live safely with their parent(s) or family and this is usually due to adverse childhood experience and trauma. Residential Child Care Workers listen and engage our children in 1:1 work around feelings, emotions and behaviours and link with other professionals, such as social workers, schools, police, and health workers to ensure our children’s needs are metWhat our children want from youWe encourage our children to participate and get involved in all decisions, and recruitment is no different. It is really important to us that any worker joining the Residential team has the skills, abilities, and outlook that our children tell us they need from us.I would like ‘someone like me who has time to listen instead of being behind a locked door’I would like “someone who listens to me but also takes action and who I can have a laugh with – they also need to be able to make nice food”I would like “someone who spends time with me”What you can expect from usWe have an ambitious, confident, and motivated management team who are experienced, supportive, and keen to help you learn and grow. We have over 50 free courses for you to learn new things, and even have funded qualifications we can support you with obtaining, up to degree level, should this be something that interests you.We have a detailed induction programme specifically designed to cover all elements of the role, so that you have all the tools and knowledge ready to get going.For all permanent staff, we will provide a monthly 1:1 reflective space with managers, a comprehensive Employee Support Offer, and lots of opportunity to network with other professionals that support children.As an Organisation we offer a wide range of staff benefits including access to our “Blues and Twos Credit” Union, Membership of Blue Light Card, and various discounts at local retailers.What we are looking for…Passion – Thinking creatively to ensure that our children are supported to achieve their aspirations (no matter how big or small) will need to be top of your list! We are looking for passionate practitioners (irrelevant of length of experience) who truly care and want to make a difference to children, young people and families.Challenge – Some days will be tough, for our children, for you, and for your colleagues – we’re after someone who is dedicated and committed, and who will always go that extra mile for our children (even on the bad days). Working as part of a close professional team is really important and you will need to be a team player to get through those tough times.Forward thinking – We are an expanding service with big ideas and aspirational views. We are looking for workers who can join our team and join us on this exciting journey, making contributions to help shape and inform the future of the service for our childrenValues – We are looking for someone who has values aligned to those that are integral to our service and our organisation – supportive, innovative, respectful and collaborativeAre you interested?We would love to hear from anyone who has a passion for building relationships with children and supporting them to achieve the best possible outcomes and want to join our team.There are lots of ways to register your interest and find out more informationInformal discussionYou are welcome to contact any one of our Residential Senior Managers to discuss the role(s) in greater detail and gain more information about the service. They can be contacted either by email or phone – details belowNorthTracey Sykes, Senior Manager – – 01772539106CentralJohn Simpson – – 01772 532087Emma McCracken – – 01282470957EastClaire Rose Dudley – – 01253 741107Mike Nunn, Senior Manager – – 01772 533628ApplyingTo apply for a post, you can apply direct from here.Please ensure you have uploaded and attached your supporting statement to evidence how you meet the criteria for the role. The panel may be unable to shortlist you for interview without this evidence.Closing Date – Sunday 17th August 2025Interview Date – Thursday 28th August 2025Closing Date – Sunday 14th September 2025Interview Date – Thursday 25th September 2025Closing Date – Sunday 12th October 2025Interview Date – Thursday 23rd October 2025Closing Date – Sunday 9th November 2025Interview Date – Thursday 20th November 2025Closing Date – Sunday 7th December 2025Interview Date – Thursday 18th December 2025Please ensure you have uploaded and attached your supporting statement to evidence how you meet the criteria for the role. The panel may be unable to shortlist you for interview without this evidence.Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013). If successful you will be required to apply to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) for a ‘disclosure’. Further information can be found on the ‘Our Recruitment Process’ tab.In return Lancashire County Council offers a range of benefits, which can be found on LCC Vacancies website.We reserve the right to close down a vacancy early, before the closing date, if we receive sufficient applications.

Expected salary

£14.13 per hour

Location

Lancashire

Job date

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 23:28:18 GMT

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