Residential Child Care Worker - Casual

We are seeking to appoint casual Residential Child Care Workers to cover shifts in our Residential Children’s Homes located in Chester, Ellesmere Port, Winsford and Northwich.

Cheshire West and Chester’s Residential Service aims to ensure that its most vulnerable children's needs are met and that their life chances are maximised to enable them to achieve their full potential and positive outcomes.

As a casual Residential Child Care Worker, you will join an organisation where the focus is on achieving the best outcomes for the children and families who we work with. The team strive to have purposeful relationships where all our interventions can truly bring about change and make a real difference to the lives of children and young people.

Cheshire West and Chester Council is a place where everyone can Thrive – through our core values of Teamwork, Honesty, Respect, Innovation, Value for Money and Empowerment.

Cheshire West and Chester seek to enable a progressive culture where creativity can flourish, where innovation and thinking differently can be embraced and where ambition and high aspiration for children to improve their outcomes can be upheld for every child. Our Children and Families work in a trauma informed way using our innovative multi-agency partnership model ‘Our Way of Working’.

You will also have access to a range of benefits including :

• Competitive salary (up to £per hour, plus enhancements of £ for evenings, £ for night time / weekends and £ sleep-in allowance)
• Extensive training, induction and support will be offered to all candidates who want to join the council and regular appraisal process surrounding development needs.
• Pension Scheme – our Local Government Pension Scheme is a career average pension scheme with employee contributions of between and and employer contributions currently of The scheme includes ill health and death in service benefits (after two years membership).

If you decide to later join the Council by applying for a permanent vacancy we can offer a range of additional benefits;

As a casual Residential Child Care Worker, you will hold your Level Diploma in Residential Childcare or equivalent and have experience working in supporting vulnerable children and young people and a supervisory skillset, however we will train and support you in this role and develop your skillset further with our range of available training courses and resources which our teams are able to source. You will need be a strong team player with great communication skills and a commitment to working collaboratively.

You will additionally :

Please note - The job may close when a suitable number of applications have been received.