Employee Benefits:

• Permanent, Full-Time Employment
• Salary: £27,900 - £31,365 per annum*
• Fully funded Level 4 and 5 Diplomas
• Casual dress
• Company events
• Staff meals whilst on shift
• Wellness programmes
• Employee Assistance Programme - Powered by Health Assured
• Access to in-house Mental Health First Aiders
• A rewarding career in Children's 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.

*average salary - based on £11.00p/h - £12.65p/h, 10 shifts with sleep-ins per month - actual hours/pay may vary. 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

We are looking for an experienced Children's Residential Support Worker to join the well established team at our home in Burnage. Ideally you will have experience of similar settings and have achieved your CACHE Level 3/Level 4 Diploma in Children and Young People.

About Rosedene   

We provide a caring, stable and nurturing home, in an informal atmosphere, catering for the needs of children and young people. In consultation with local authorities we provide medium to long-term residential care. We can also provide short term placements.

We will consider requests for planned and emergency admission of children and young people of either gender, and we are registered to accommodate 5 young people at any given time. 

We can provide placements for children and young people ages 7-17 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 Rosedene. 

We have a robust and detailed impact risk assessment along with a matching criteria and check list to ensure that any young person being admitted to Rosedene will have their individual needs met, taking careful consideration to the needs of the young people already resident at Rosedene and that the home has staff that are skilled and equipped in order to deal with such needs. Therefore, providing the best possible care and achieving the best possible outcomes. 

It is our aim 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 in their own right. 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 members of society.

Aims of Rosedene

• To provide a service that enables children to overcome any traumas or abuse in their past and empowers the child to improve their potential and life chances in every aspect of their development and future.

• To provide a range of skills, support and care that facilitates positive progress by preparing the child for transition either to return home, a progression placement or the move on to independent living. To assist the development of young adults by supporting them to acquire independent living skills and ensuring a more positive future becomes a realistic outcome.

• To assist the child or young person to develop their social skills and to have a better understanding of societies expectations so to help integration on leaving care. 

• To ensure that children will be protected from harm, by creating an environment and culture that promotes safety, education and wellbeing as being of paramount importance.

• To provide caring and appropriate adult role models who will develop safe and secure relationships with the child.

We aim to empower young people so that they can maintain their dignity, freedom of choice and their rights as an individual.

• To assist and support young people to access health services. 

• To signpost to additional services that are available and to support young people to access and benefit from these services. 

• To promote healthy appropriate relationships built on trust and respect. 

• To ensure that there are adequate staff levels to meet individual’s needs. 

• To safeguard Children from Harm.

• To instil confidence in young people.

• To offer guidance. 

• To empower young people. 

• To promote and support resilience. 

 All these aims and objectives are underpinned by good childcare and a professional and committed delivery of service. The staff team at Rosedene has a firm belief in the human capacity for change, and the need to work with an unconditional positive regard for children. Respect for the dignity of the individual is additional to a non-judgmental philosophy and provides an important foundation.

Caring for Children

Our overall priority is to provide an excellent quality of care for Children and Young People. Our committed team and organisation ensure that each child or young person is treated with respect and that all their individual care needs addressed and consistently met in placement.

Rosedene uses a holistic approach in the provision of care work in partnership with multi agencies and support services to ensure all care needs are met. Staff are always available to support children and young people and utilise their skills, training and experience to do so.

It is important to us that children and young people feel valued, cared for and safe. At Rosedene positive role models provide this for the children and young people in our care.

Rosedene also prioritises safeguarding children and young people in order to provide quality care for their emotional and physical well-being. Staff are aware of safeguarding issues and concerns and proactively follow procedures in place to ensure that within the provision for care at Rosedene all children and young people are safeguarded from harm and abuse.

About The Company

New Horizons was established over 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 people's families and other external agencies.