Care Assistant (Nights)
Children's Services

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

Care Assistant (Nights)
Working hours: 32 hours per week
Grade: 2A +2, £17,729 + increments for weekend working + 30% increment for night working + Secure Unit allowance of £1,114 per annum
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: Thursday, 15th August, 12 noon

About us
Barton Moss is an Ofsted outstanding rated provider of secure care for young people aged between ten 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.

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, then we would be interested to hear from you.

About the role
You will be expected to undertake safety and welfare checks, observe young people and deal with any unexpected events during waking night hours.

The role is part of our permanent team of night Care Assistants that work 32 hours per week, averaged over a four week rota, which include 12 x ten hour night shifts and 1 x eight hour day shift per month.

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.
 
Role Profile.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  

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

Care Assistant (Nights)
Working hours: 32 hours per week
Grade: 2A +2, £17,729 + increments for weekend working + 30% increment for night working + Secure Unit allowance of £1,114 per annum
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: Thursday, 15th August, 12 noon

About us
Barton Moss is an Ofsted outstanding rated provider of secure care for young people aged between ten 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.

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, then we would be interested to hear from you.

About the role
You will be expected to undertake safety and welfare checks, observe young people and deal with any unexpected events during waking night hours.

The role is part of our permanent team of night Care Assistants that work 32 hours per week, averaged over a four week rota, which include 12 x ten hour night shifts and 1 x eight hour day shift per month.

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.
 
Role Profile.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