About the role
Are you looking for a varied, challenging and rewarding position where you can help and mentor young people?
Thornton House is a two bedded residential unit housing young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties. We are looking for self-motivated, enthusiastic, flexible people to join our staff team. You will be part of a supportive team to ensure young people achieve their full potential by providing them with support and services they need to lead happy, healthy and successful lives.
All members of the team work on a rota basis, which includes evenings and weekends. Enhancements for evening and weekend work, sleeping-in payments, stand-by payments, and overtime substantially increase the earnings potential for this post, in addition to the basic salary.
The role includes supporting with day-to-day life, schoolwork, life skills where applicable, accompanying our Young People to health, education and other appointments. There are also days out to the cinema, shopping or even theme parks and holidays as we try and create positive experiences for our young people. We are a small home so we encourage a “family feel” where possible, this involves eating our meals together, creating positive relationships and supporting our residents through key work.
These posts are zero hours contracts providing cover/relief for existing staff and is a great first step into a new career. Shifts include weekend and evening working and successful candidates should be available to work at short notice.
For more information or to arrange an informal discussion please contact Laraine.Doughty@nctrust.co.uk
About you
- You need to be self-motivated, enthusiastic, patient and flexible amongst other things. You will find it easy to establish and build positive relationships with Young People.
- You must hold a full UK driving licence as you will be accompanying our Young People to appointments or activities.
- Experience of working with young people in either a professional or voluntary capacity is desirable, as is evidence of an ongoing interest and commitment to young people.
The post is subject to an Enhanced DBS clearance.
When applying please ensure your supporting statement details how you fulfil the essential criteria set out in the person specification. You will need to provide a full employment history including any gaps since leaving full time education.
Our benefits
We are committed to continuous improvement, building a skilled, knowledgeable, and flexible workforce alongside promoting innovation and creativity whilst keeping children, young people and families at the heart of all we do.
We really value our workforce and offer you a great benefits package including:
- Extensive Learning & Development and career development opportunities
- A permanent, supportive and inclusive management team where you will be empowered to make good professional decisions
- Local government Pension Scheme
- Employee Discount Schemes
- Great opportunities for career progression and a gateway into full time work or new career
- Flexible hours
- Meals are provided whilst on shift
About us
Northamptonshire Children’s Trust was established in November 2020 to deliver Children’s Services to the newly established North and West Northants County Councils. The Trust is wholly owned and funded but operationally independent from the Councils; this provides the organisation with unique opportunities to explore new ways of working and to be more agile and adaptable in its approach to service delivery. We are developing a culture that allows the very highest quality of professional practice to flourish and evolve, delivering at the cutting edge of new innovation.
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