HORIZONS RESIDENTIAL CARE LIMITED

Mission Statement: “Working together to provide a stable, supportive and caring home promoting respect, values, rights and diversity.”

JOB DESCRIPTION

Vacant Posts: Senior Residential Childcare Worker (Full-time, Corstorphine & Gorebridge)

ABOUT US:

Horizons Residential Care Limited is a well-established residential childcare provider based in the East Coast of Scotland and has been providing therapeutic residential childcare service since 2013. We won the Best Social Care Provider award in 2019, the Best Care Home Award in Scotland in 2021 and also won the Best Care Home Group in the UK in 2022 and 2023.
Horizon’s vision is for young people within our care to thrive in a positive and therapeutic living experience, which meets and exceeds the requirements of the Health and Social Care Standards. Horizon’s ethos resonates with childcare theory, Attachment Theory, Social Pedagogy and Opportunity led Life Space Interventions. Our care practice aims to promote the development of young people’s coping mechanisms to resolve past experiences and enhance individual capacity in respect of life skills, self-esteem, confidence, and resilience.
Horizons provide, as a standard, a staffing ratio of 1:1 (10am - 10pm) with passionate, competent, and confident team members to support our young people with complex and sometimes challenging behaviours. Our young people may present with a range of social, emotional and physical needs. Therefore the specialised and therapeutic care we provide requires to be person centred.

JOB POSITION: SENIOR RESIDENTIAL CARE WORKERS:

We are looking for caring, committed, resilient, and empathic senior residential childcare workers to join our team. As a Senior Residential Childcare Worker, you will play a crucial role in providing high-quality care and support to children and young people in a residential care setting. You will be supervising key workers and responsible for supporting the team to develop and grow. Your primary responsibility will be to ensure the safety, wellbeing, and development of the children and young people in the home, through promoting a therapeutic and welcoming home, providing the highest quality of care. As a case manager, you will work as part of a team, and carry out day-to-day quality assurance, observations, support, and guidance, while maintaining positive relationships with the children, their families, the care team, and external professionals.

EXPERIENCED AND FULLY QUALIFIED (HNC, SVQ3, AND SVQ 4) APPLICANTS WILL BE ON THE FOLLOWING PAY RATE: A MINIMUM £15 PER HOUR, EQUIVALENT TO AN ANNUAL SALARY APPROX: £35,972 INCLUSIVE OF SLEEPOVER ALLOWANCE.

The ideal candidate must have 2 or more years’ experience working with and caring for vulnerable young people in a residential care setting, who have a range of support needs varying from traumatic life experience, family breakdown to disability. Candidates must also be fully qualified to work as a residential childcare worker, meeting the requirements as set out by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) for registration. A clean and current driving licence is also preferable, alongside a willingness to transport the young people in our care using company vehicles.

Please refer the Job description for details