Residential Night Childcare Worker

About Us

Green Waves is a 1-2 bed home and welcomes children between the ages of 12 up to 18 years at the time of referral. The home is part of an exciting pilot project providing short term support to children with complex mental health. These children are often at risk in the community and as such, it is our goal to keep them safe from harm whilst we work with partner agencies to find a suitable placement or to support them to reintegrate into their previous or a new setting.

For more information, please visit our dedicated Residential website, Children's residential care careers.

About the Role

Base Salary: £26,403 - £26,824 per annum plus weekend working and sleep-ins enhanced pay, excellent pension and annual leave entitlement.
Working Pattern: Full time - 37 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Location: Worthing
Working Pattern: Shift patterns are 9:30pm - 07:30am, working alternate weekends with a rolling rota pattern

Children's Residential Recruitment and Retention Payment scheme - £1500 during your first 18 months while you remain in the County Council's permanent employment during this time to support our new employees in this vital role! The scheme consists of two payments: £500 after successful completion of 6 months employment (including successful completion of probation where relevant) and £1,000 after 18 months.

As a Night Childcare Worker, you will ensure that all children's and young people's physical and emotional night care needs are met. This may include managing challenging behaviour, providing emotional support when needed, supporting children with curfew and they return safely if out in the community. The support given enables our children and young people to maintain and improve their skills and daily lives in line with individual care plans. Additionally, you will be responsible for report writing, nightly checks and household chores when required.

Our ideal candidate will be caring, empathic and resilient. There are many challenges, but we support each other to overcome these and work closely with many other professionals too. This enables us to continue to provide the high quality of care to our children, in a homely and caring environment.

Join our friendly, supportive team with great opportunities for personal development - and apply today!

Experience and Skills

• Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare or equivalent. If you do not have this, the service will support you to complete this qualification; you must achieve this within two years of appointment as it is a statutory requirement of this post.
• Sound communication and interpersonal skills to a range of children and families.
• Ability to promote and encourage a multi-agency approach to support the child.
• Ability to use initiative to resolve problems within given parameters.
• Ability to work under pressure and prioritise work.
• Ability to work as part of a team around a child.
• Good standard of literacy e.g. ability to write reports around individuals and significant incidents.
  
  

For a full list of key skills, experience and qualification requirements please refer to the job description attached below.

Rewards and Benefits

As an employer we recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive and dynamic working environment where employees can achieve their full potential, achieve a healthy work-life balance and are rewarded for the work they do.

In addition to working within a great team and a brilliant opportunity you will receive:

• an excellent local government pension scheme
• generous holiday entitlement
• access to a wide selection of retail discounts and savings such as groceries, shopping, travel and more through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform.
• a range of commuting and business travel discount and initiatives
• maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
• health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• financial wellbeing support including access to educational tools and webinars, loans or debt consolidation options and savings scheme
• training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring

For a full list of the benefits offered to you as a West Sussex County Council employee you can find them on our Rewards and Benefits page.

Further Information

The reference number for this role is CAFHE06192 .

To apply, upload your CV and complete our short application form, explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role, ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Feel free to view our guide here: How to create the best CV, Application Form or Cover Letter

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.

This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check, 5 years referencing and an occupational health check. A full employment history will be requested and covered for this role.

Equity, inclusion and accessibility is very important to West Sussex County Council. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, as this helps us build a diverse and talented workforce, that reflects the communities we serve. We ensure our approach to recruitment is flexible and supportive to enable all applicants to be at their best and to ensure they have the best possible chance of success.

We operate a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants that have a disability, are a veteran or are a care leaver. More information can be found on our application help page.

Note for Recruitment Agencies: We prefer to hire people directly, but we do have a supplier list for when we need a helping hand. We'll be in touch directly if we need you!