Senior Residential Project Worker - Edinburgh
- Location:
- Barnardo's Caern House Caern House Gogarbank, EH12 9BZ
- Salary:
- Starting Salary £23,545 FTE
- Contract Type:
- Permanent
- Position Type:
- Full Time
- Hours:
- 37 hours per week
Barnardo's Caern Project Edinburgh - We deliver a variety of quality services for young people with learning disabilities and/or autism.
We are seeking Senior Residential Project Worker's (Level 2) to support young people with learning disabilities and/or autism and their families/carers to achieve positive outcomes.
Working primarily in the residential setting you will promote the happiness, safety and welfare of the young people during short breaks.
Ideally you will have experience of:
- Working with young people and the required qualifications for full registration as a residential child care worker with the SSSC or willingness to work towards them.
- A social care setting, possess qualifications for registration with the SSSC as a Residential Child Care Worker
- Working with challenging behaviour.
These posts are subject to an enhanced check through Disclosure Scotland - PVG Scheme.
Please see the attached job and person profile detailing the essential criteria for this role.
At Barnardo's we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and we expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. Our safer recruitment processes mean that the safety and welfare of the child is paramount at every stage of the process and therefore, we adopt rigorous scrutiny in our pre-employment checking. This post is subject to a range of pre-employment checks including a Criminal Records Enhanced Disclosure for the successful candidate.
At Barnardo's we believe in children – no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.
Barnardo's is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce for staff and volunteers. We actively encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic and male candidates as they are under-represented within Barnardo's.