Permanent / Various Shifts / Evening, Weekend and Bank Holiday
Play a key role in ensuring the emotional, physical and social well-being of the looked after children of Leicester City.
The Placements and Commissioning Service develop and maintain effective, high quality residential services for young people in the care of the Local Authority. Join our ever-improving and expanding service, ensuring children are at the heart of our work. We are committed to working in partnership with children, families and young adults to achieve the best outcomes. Based at any one of our 6 children’s homes, you'll provide care, guidance and support to children and young people, some of which have challenging behaviours, disabilities and/or complex health care needs.
These are full-time, permanent posts working 37 hours per week from 10pm to 8am. This will include working on weekends and bank holidays. It is expected that Waking Night staff will not sleep on duty. You’ll be required to work from whatever location is necessary at the time and will be able to make your own way to your place of work, whether this be by your own car or public transport.
We welcome applications for casual staff who will be on our bank/relief register
Hourly rate will include an enhancements for unsocial hours.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll provide consistent care when working with children and young people whilst being flexible and approach all tasks (including personal care), in a positive manner to ensure that the needs of the individual are paramount throughout the night. Having experience with housekeeping you’ll complete various tasks such as cleaning surfaces, washing dishes, vacuuming, emptying waste bins, basic sewing repairs etc. You’ll manage stripping bed, soiled clothing/bedding, laundry sorting, washing, ironing and distributing the linen. You’ll report any incidents/accidents involving children as soon as practically possibly to the senior staff on duty, you’ll risk assess the building regularly to ensure that everything is in order and report any breaches of building security. You’ll ensure that the appropriate records relating to children & young people and the team are kept up to date in the agreed format and are securely managed and filed.
What you’ll need
With the ability to build appropriate and trusting relationships with children and young people, you’ll develop their self-esteem & confidence. Having experience of working in a with people, and particularly those with challenging behaviour, you’ll approach situations in a diplomatic and sensitive manner, and in some cases physical intervention may be required. You’ll have some previous experience working in a caring role, with knowledge of moving and handling, you’ll be physically fit to assist with lifting, in order to provide personal care. Using your good level of communication skills, you’ll be able to give and receive verbal handovers, write notes and report, including observations of children and young people. As an organised individual you’ll be able to manage own workload with minimum direction.
Due to the nature of this role, you must be 21 years or older. Appointment will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
What we can offer you
As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working.
We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from a number of flexible benefits, including childcare vouchers, discounts on city buses and trains and help with relocation to Leicester, where appropriate. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.
Join us
We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.
For an informal discussion about this post, please contact Sue Aldridge on 0116 454 4813.
This is an open advert therefore we will complete the short-listing soon after receiving your application. If short-listed, you'll be called for an assessment and/or interview thereafter.