Residential Support Worker

Employee Benefits:

• Permanent, Full Time Employment
• Salary: £22,360 - £31,590 per annum**
• Up to 33 days of annual leave(enhanced from 28)
• Fully funded Level 4 and 5 Diplomas
• Access to Perkbox
• Casual dress
• Company events
• Staff meals whilst on shift
• Store discounts
• Wellness programmes
• Employee Assistance Programme - Powered by Health Assured
• Access to in-house Mental Health First Aiders
• A rewarding career in Children Services
• Making a real difference in young people's lives and improving outcomes for young people
• Peoples Pension scheme
• Ongoing support in advancing your career.
• Great discounts on gym membership, cinema tickets, driving lessons, holidays, family days out, restaurants and high street shopping.

**Based on an average example of a support workers salary - employees are paid on an hourly rate ranging from £9.75p/h to £11.60p/h plus £40 per sleep in - Lowest salary based on 40 hours per week plus one sleep in as a Residential Support Worker, highest salary based on 40 hours plus 2 sleeps per week as a Senior Residential Support Worker - shift patterns and actual hours vary from home to home - New Horizons is not responsible for the content of adverts reposted by outside agencies.

About the Role

New Horizons is expanding and has vacancies available for Children’s Residential Support Workers for our learning disability specialist home situated in Dukinfield.

Hollydene Children’s Home provides a safe, stable and nurturing home, catering for the needs of children and young people of either gender with a Learning Disability, Autistic Spectrum Disorder and Sensory Impairment. In consultation with local authorities we provide long-term residential care. 

Specifically, we work with a broad range of complex needs, which include: 

• Autistic Spectrum conditions 
• Moderate or severe learning difficulty 
• Global developmental delays 
• Sensory Impairment 
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• Specific language/communication difficulty
• Foetal Alcohol Syndrome 

We can provide placements for children and young people ages 5-17 in accordance with the experience and qualifications of our staff team and providing the young people are suitably matched to be in placement together. Our placements are planned, reviewed and monitored according to the individual needs, ages and functioning ages of the young people residing at Hollydene. 

Our aim is to empower people to live a fulfilling life using person centred approaches built on respect, innovation and sustainability. To respond to the changing needs of disabled people through dedication and continuous improvement, supporting more people to feel safe and to express themselves. We ensure children and young people with learning disability have the necessary skills, confidence and support to access opportunities to lead happy adult lives living as independently as possible. To achieve good health and emotional wellbeing and to create an atmosphere within which the individual can feel safe to express themselves, find adults they feel able to approach and those that will accept them unreservedly as individuals. As part of a wider strategy, active attempts are made to rescue the better aspect of the individual’s behaviour, to restart the natural process of growth and development, and equip them with the necessary skills to go on to be productive as possible as they enter adulthood.

Hollydene Children’s home is a four bedded home in Dukinfield, Tameside. We have good commuting links which enable us to travel by bus / trains into Manchester and the surrounding areas. The home has its own driveway and a private lane at the side of the house for parking.

About The Company

New Horizons was established almost 25 years ago with the intention to “Build Brighter Futures”, over the years we have organically grown and now have five children’s homes over Stockport and Greater Manchester. We have built a reputation as a leading provider of residential childcare, and aim to provide long term, stable and secure placements to young people who have known chaotic childhoods, multiple placement breakdowns or may have come from failed foster care or adoption placements.

We are now a “preferred provider” with most Local Authorities across the UK, and regularly receive upwards of 600 referrals a month from Local Authorities wishing to place young people with us. This hard work has also been recognised and celebrated by Ofsted, placing authorities, the young peoples families and other external agencies.