Various across Wigan’s Childrens Homes
Salary: Grade 7, £30,296 - £33,945 per annum.
37 hours per week
Your role:
This is an exciting opportunity to join our internal residential service. We are looking for experienced residential staff that have experience of caring for children with complex needs. You will be able to contribute and follow positive behaviour support plans, manage a variety of communication methods. You will be passionate about the delivery of outstanding support to children and young people between the ages of 11-17 years that have a diagnosis of LD. You will play a key role in ensuring our young person has fun, new experiences, safe care and and make good progress.
The team will need to have a strong understanding of children with complex needs, including sensory and communication. Have a commitment to partnership working with social care, education and specialist health.
We have a vision for Wigan Borough to be a confident place with confident people. This means helping all our children and young people become resilient and self reliant adults. To achieve this vision we know that we need to work with our young people, to transform our services, create opportunities for them and help them to flourish as confident adults in a place they can belong.
About you:
You will be passionate about caring for children, you will be resilient, enthusiastic and bring fun to the direct support to children. You will have a solution-focused, positive attitude and hold an appropriate qualification or be willing to complete this within 18 months. You will be committed to continuing professional development, learning and working as a team.
You will be flexible in your approach and will required to work evenings, weekends on a rota basis.
You must have experience working with children in a residential setting or supporting children with a diagnosed LD.
We do not offer sponsorship.
About us:
Wigan Council has been voted ‘Overall Council of the Year’ at the APSE (Association for Public Service Excellence) Awards and has recently published The Deal 2030, our ambitious plan for our borough. We are signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment ensuring that your service will be continuous or 'unbroken' between the supporting organisations.
Wigan Council are passionate about our residential service, we are committed to recruiting and retaining the best staff to ensure our children have the best care, love and support as possible.
Children’s residential Services in Wigan are GOOD and OUTSTANDING, with an ambition to be outstanding across the residential portfolio. The Deal and the Deal for Children and Young People outlines our ambition to transform our children’s service to be asset based, with the child and family at the centre and drive our vision to support all children in Wigan become confident resilient adults.
Here at Wigan, we are proud to support flexible working patterns, when the service can accommodate this. We also take a blended approach to where we work, depending on the work we do. This may include working from home (My Place), the office (Our Place) or the community (Your Place). We like to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits click here to find out more about working for #TeamWigan.
Wigan Council prides itself on equality, inclusion and promoting diversity within the borough and aims to recruit a workforce that reflects our diverse communities. We invest in training and developing our staff, in a positive learning environment, and aim to be a consciously inclusive employer. We welcome applications from everybody in the community and would particularly encourage applicants from our underrepresented groups to apply. At Wigan, it is really important to us that applicants demonstrate our Team Wigan behaviours, and we do all we can to make sure that everyone feels like they belong. We have guidance in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process.
To be appointable in this role you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the UK. If you are unsure, please visit the below link to check you qualify to apply. Please note, at present we are not a licenced sponsor. Prove your right to work to an employer: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
For further information, please contact If you require further information please contact Steve Swinhoe on 07825257163 or email s.swinhoe@wigan.gov.uk
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Interview date: Tuesday 30th April
This position is subject to Enhanced Disclosure Procedures plus child barred list check
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