Residential Child Care Worker
Children's Services

Barton Moss Secure Care Centre
Barton Moss Road
Salford, M30 7RL

Residential Child Care Worker
Working hours: 36 per week averaged over a 4 week rota
Grade: 3A £24,799 -£26,999 + 2 increments for weekend working + secure unit allowance of £1,017 per annum
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: Thursday 15th August, 12 noon
 
About us
Salford has changed and is continuing to change: at the heart of our approach are ambitious plans to transform Salford into a modern global city where we can all make a real difference to the lives of Salford people. As a people centred and values based organisation Salford really is a great place to work. With a positive permission culture and can do approach, we embrace innovation and encourage performance.

Barton Moss is an Ofsted outstanding rated provider of secure care for young people aged between 10 and 18 years of age. The Centre is highly regarded by the Ministry of Justice as one of their primary providers of care. We offer a very high standard of child care, which encourages young people’s educational development, emotional health and personal wellbeing. We operate a thorough care system and transitional planning is key to the successful resettlement of the young people into the community.

We currently have an exciting vacancy within our team and this is your opportunity to join us. Together we will continue to build on our success and bring new experience, knowledge and ideas into our service.

About you
Your style and approach will reflect our values: you will be passionate about what you do always striving to improve things; valuing and respecting others’ contribution, you will work together to deliver a better service; you will take pride in always getting things right first time and learn from when things do go wrong; you will enjoy taking personal responsibility to resolve issues and change what you do and how you do it to make a difference. You should possess good keyboarding skills and the ability to record effectively using a range of IT platforms.

About the role
If you have experience and resilience of working with difficult, challenging, and vulnerable adolescents in a caring residential or community based setting and feel that you have the qualities to work within a multi-agency team, who are committed to offering the highest standards of care, providing activities and education, then we would be interested to hear from you. You should have the capacity to set appropriate boundaries and have an understanding of the balance between care and control.

About the benefits
You will be welcomed into a friendly environment where your personal and professional development will be encouraged. You will have the opportunity to work and grow in a people-centred and values based organisation that promotes a positive permission culture. Your opinions matter so you will have the opportunity to shape how we do things through our Salford 100 employee group and our employee led redesign approach. Your work-life balance and wellbeing are important to us so you will have access to a range of benefits, including green travel scheme, pension scheme, salary sacrifice schemes, a range of health and wellbeing options to suit your needs

Please be aware that this post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and that you will be required to meet the cost of the DBS check – currently £44.00. The payment for this will be deducted from your first four months’ salary payments at a rate of £11.00 per month. If you do not commence employment for any reason but the DBS has been processed, you will be sent an invoice for the payment of £44.00

Continuous service commitment - new employees can now keep their service related benefits when moving between a whole host of public sector organisations within Greater Manchester these include: Councils, NHS, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue, Transport for Greater Manchester as well as many others. 

Job Description.docx
Person Specification.docx
Working for Salford.pdf 

Our core data protection obligations and commitments are set out in the council’s primary Recruitment and Employment Privacy Notice which can be found at https://www.salford.gov.uk/gdpr  
Location
Barton Moss Secure Care Centre
Vacancy Description
 
Barton Moss Secure Care Centre
Barton Moss Road
Salford, M30 7RL

Residential Child Care Worker
Working hours: 36 per week averaged over a 4 week rota
Grade: 3A £24,799 -£26,999 + 2 increments for weekend working + secure unit allowance of £1,017 per annum
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: Thursday 15th August, 12 noon
 
About us
Salford has changed and is continuing to change: at the heart of our approach are ambitious plans to transform Salford into a modern global city where we can all make a real difference to the lives of Salford people. As a people centred and values based organisation Salford really is a great place to work. With a positive permission culture and can do approach, we embrace innovation and encourage performance.

Barton Moss is an Ofsted outstanding rated provider of secure care for young people aged between 10 and 18 years of age. The Centre is highly regarded by the Ministry of Justice as one of their primary providers of care. We offer a very high standard of child care, which encourages young people’s educational development, emotional health and personal wellbeing. We operate a thorough care system and transitional planning is key to the successful resettlement of the young people into the community.

We currently have an exciting vacancy within our team and this is your opportunity to join us. Together we will continue to build on our success and bring new experience, knowledge and ideas into our service.

About you
Your style and approach will reflect our values: you will be passionate about what you do always striving to improve things; valuing and respecting others’ contribution, you will work together to deliver a better service; you will take pride in always getting things right first time and learn from when things do go wrong; you will enjoy taking personal responsibility to resolve issues and change what you do and how you do it to make a difference. You should possess good keyboarding skills and the ability to record effectively using a range of IT platforms.

About the role
If you have experience and resilience of working with difficult, challenging, and vulnerable adolescents in a caring residential or community based setting and feel that you have the qualities to work within a multi-agency team, who are committed to offering the highest standards of care, providing activities and education, then we would be interested to hear from you. You should have the capacity to set appropriate boundaries and have an understanding of the balance between care and control.

About the benefits
You will be welcomed into a friendly environment where your personal and professional development will be encouraged. You will have the opportunity to work and grow in a people-centred and values based organisation that promotes a positive permission culture. Your opinions matter so you will have the opportunity to shape how we do things through our Salford 100 employee group and our employee led redesign approach. Your work-life balance and wellbeing are important to us so you will have access to a range of benefits, including green travel scheme, pension scheme, salary sacrifice schemes, a range of health and wellbeing options to suit your needs

Please be aware that this post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and that you will be required to meet the cost of the DBS check – currently £44.00. The payment for this will be deducted from your first four months’ salary payments at a rate of £11.00 per month. If you do not commence employment for any reason but the DBS has been processed, you will be sent an invoice for the payment of £44.00

Continuous service commitment - new employees can now keep their service related benefits when moving between a whole host of public sector organisations within Greater Manchester these include: Councils, NHS, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue, Transport for Greater Manchester as well as many others. 

Job Description.docx
Person Specification.docx
Working for Salford.pdf 

Our core data protection obligations and commitments are set out in the council’s primary Recruitment and Employment Privacy Notice which can be found at https://www.salford.gov.uk/gdpr