Residential Childcare Worker

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Job Type :  Contract

Salary Per Annum :  Hour

Job Reference :  215398788

Category : Social Care

Salary :  £12 – £18/hour

Location : Blair Atholl, Perth & Kinross

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Country : Perth and Kinross

DESCRIPTION : Are you a Residential Childcare Practitioner looking for a new role in a lively service?

Can you bring that special something to a diverse team environment?

Then this is the perfect opportunity for you!

Randstad are looking for an experienced residential childcare practitioner to join an established service in rural Perthshire supporting children with childhood trauma. on. The service is open to a variety of experience backgrounds but a trauma informed, positive parenting approach is key.

The salary ranges from £(phone number removed) plus sleepover allowances, DOE

What can Randstad offer a Residential Childcare Practitioner?

– Competitive rates and generous annual leave entitlements

– Great service with therapy animals on site

– Saturday night takeaways in the service

– Close knit team with flexible rotas

– Excellent career progressions; the service is keen to promote from within

– Opportunity for overtime in other services

– Unlimited friend referral bonuses

– Immediate start

– Extensive training in industry standard courses supported by online learning

– Help with SSSC registration

– Employee discount app

– Support from within the team and a dedicated Randstad consultant

A successful Residential Childcare Practitioner will be responsible for:

– Working effectively as part of a team of residential childcare practitioners

– Providing 24 hours care to a vulnerable young people

– supporting 4 service users in rural cottage

– Taking service users out into the community and to school each day

– Ensuring professional boundaries are in place

– Maintaining professional manner and working to National Care Standards

– Working to a flexible schedule, including night shifts, weekends and bank holidays and Christmas period

To be successful in your Residential Childcare Practitioner application, you will:

– Have previous experience working in a residential setting with young people

– Have flexibility in the roles undertaken

– Have strong communication skills

– Register under the PVG scheme

– Full driving licence

– Obtained, or working towards SVQ level 3 in Health and Social Care, or equivalent desirable

If this sounds like the position for you, don’t delay!

Apply now and one of our team may call you for an informal chat to take your application to the next stage. Alternatively, if you would like some more information give Rebecca Prentice a call on (phone number removed) for a confidential chat or email

Not the role for you?

We are always looking for talented residential support workers across Scotland, email

Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.

Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.

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