Family Residential Worker (Nights)

The post holder will work as part of the Residential team at Ferndale Children’s Services delivering high quality residential care to children and young people who require to be looked after away from home on a full time 35 hour per week contract. The post holder will also be required to undertake Outreach work in the community, this will involve supporting young people and their families while they remain at home. The post holder will work in partnership with families, social workers, education and health to support children and young people to promote welfare and development and achieve best outcomes in line with ‘Getting It Right For Every Child’ and the SHANARRI principles. The post holder will contribute to the continuous achievements and improvements of Ferndale Children’s Services and Ferndale Outreach Service, participate in all inspections and deliver practice of a high standard. There is a flexible 5/7 working rota which is planned to ensure consideration of holidays, training and outings. There is a requirement to cover day, evening, nightshift and sleepover duties during emergencies. There is also occasional requirement to work out with core daily hours or weekends dependent on the requirements of the service. In line with SSSC registration requirement for Residential Child Care, the post holder will have a mandatory academic qualification – minimum of HNC in Social Care or equivalent academic social care award at SQF level 9 or above. The post holder will also hold a Practice Qualification – SVQ 3 or equivalent or be committed to undertake the required SVQ 3 Qualification as determined by the SSSC for Residential Child Care services. Ferndale Children’s Residential Service Equalities monitoring will be conducted to ensure a fair and equitable process with screening being carried out to anonymise sensitive information such as age, gender and disability.• Only the relevant HR representative/team and the relevant service will see the application form.• We will encourage and welcome applications from applicants under the disability symbol. Where the essential criteria are met an interview will be offered to those applying under the disability symbol.• We will advise you if you have been successful or unsuccessful at the interview stage as soon as practically possible. Website…