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Job Title- Residential Child Care Practitioner
Location- East Mains
Salary- £20,280- £26,041 DOE
Contract type- Permanent
Working hours- 40hrs Per week, as part of a rota which includes a combination of early and late shifts and rotational weekend working.
About us
Spark of Genius is one of Scotland’s largest residential child care providers. For over 25 years, we have been delivering high quality care to young people who need to be looked after. Spark of Genius is also part of the UK-wide CareTech family who are committed to providing each child with opportunities to have their individual needs met.
About the Service
Our home is a five-bedroom house set in a rural location in the heart of East Lothian.
The house benefits from spacious rooms and a large garden where young people can relax in a safe environment, offering a therapeutic and peaceful environment for the young people to learn, grow and develop.
In your new role
This is an opportunity to be part of a dedicated and trauma-informed team, and to work directly with young people with a range of complex needs connected to their individual life experiences and childhood adversity.
This is also a chance to make a difference to outcomes for young people! Our mission is to make Every Second Count, to help us succeed you will:
You will ideally have:
Benefits
As part of this role, we offer a range of specialist training programmes to support you in your work and invest in your professional development. These include:
In support and recognition of our colleagues who will help us deliver our employer strategy, we offer a fantastic benefits package. This includes;
Due to the nature of the role, it will be necessary for all Residential Childcare Workers to be subject to a Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) check by Disclosure Scotland and achieve membership of the scheme prior to commencing work with us. CareTech will cover the cost of this check.
Any data received in applications will be used for recruitment purposes within Spark of Genius and CareTech only.
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