Salary £17,169 - £19,939 per annum including weekend working allowance.
(Grades 4-5)
Permanent, Part Time

We are advertising for 2 posts –

1 x 17.5 hours per week - Rolling rota of two nights on, six nights off
1 x 26.25 hours per week - Rolling rota of three nights on, five nights off

Interview date: 28th April 2017

This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

May House provide care for children between 8 and 12 years old on admission for periods of up to 18 months. The children accessing the service have complex learning disabilities, high levels of challenging and complex needs and are at risk of exclusion from existing social care and educational resources. A multi-disciplinary team offers a comprehensive package of care and works intensively to enable the young person to return to other community resources and their families.

As a Night Care Assistant you will be working with children and young people with disabilities who often present challenging behaviour.

Your main responsibility will be to oversee the welfare of the children in our care overnight. The role involves remaining awake all night and to be available to offer support and reassurance and other care as necessary to ensure the children are able to settle to sleep. There will be a range of other household tasks and duties to complete during your shifts and you will be expected to provide good quality recordings.

You will need:-

• to be alert to the needs of the young people in our care and mindful of their safety.
• to have a good level of resilience to cope with this challenging but rewarding role.
• to be able to show care, understanding, flexibility and appropriate professional
boundaries
• to be able to work as a part of a team.

We recognise that our staff are our most valuable resource and offer high levels of support and an extensive training pathway (including the Level 3 Diploma for Children and Young People’s Workforce) to ensure our teams are equipped to meet the needs and challenges of the children we care for.

Hours of work: - while your usual rota’d hours are 9:30pm – 7:30am there will be times when you will need to work during the day – induction sessions, training, meetings etc. so some flexibility is required.

Please note the attached role profiles are currently titled Night Care Assistants but this title is changing on 1st April 2017 to Residential Night Child Care Workers.

If you would like to know more about these exciting posts then please call Dominic Riches