Relief Residential Support Worker

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
 

• Job Title:                           Relief Residential Support Worker
• Job Location:                    Hartwood House 
• Salary:                              £27,269 - £28,624 per annum (pro rata)  
• Contract Type:                  Casual/Relief 
• Closing Date:                    22/06/2025 
• Job Requisition Number:  11669 
• This post is not open to job share

We have some opportunities available for the positions of Relief Residential Support Workers to work in a Children’s home providing short breaks to children with disabilities, to provide cover on an 'as needed' basis, covering annual leave and often at short notice.

The position involves providing care and support to enable children to progress and develop to reach their full potential. Part of the care provided will be to support independence, social skills and community based activities to achieve positive outcomes for all children. You will also support allocated key-workers with their duties for specific children advocating on behalf of the child to parent/carers and other professionals.

You will be working in an established and friendly team in a home from home environment, the role will include working mornings, evenings, weekends and school holidays, staff are expected to undertake occasional sleep in duties.

Reward and Support

For all your hard work, you will receive the following:

• between £27,269 - £28,624 per annum subject to experience. Extra allowances for weekend working and unsociable hours are paid on top of your hourly wage
• flexible and agile working opportunities
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
• family friendly policies and benefits to help support you and your family
• supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone
• an in-house Occupational Health service
• employee discount scheme
• cycle to work scheme
• links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
• career development and qualification opportunities
• access to our Social Work Academy

Right child, right support, right time, every time

We are working together to support families and communities to give every child the best chance of a happy and rewarding life, especially those who need more help. 

Gloucestershire offers a range of opportunities to develop your career, supported by a phenomenal Social Work Academy offer, a developing systemic practice methodology, an ambitious leadership team and an award-winning workforce.

Gloucestershire Children’s Services are improving. Our latest Ofsted inspection (February 2022) identified that:

‘Significant progress has been made in many areas of Gloucestershire’s children’s services… significant financial investment and the backing of political leaders, has led to improved services that are now more effective in meeting the needs of children and families’.

We are a local authority adopting, and training all colleagues in, systemic social work practice. If you would like to be part of an authority that takes a relational approach to working with families and focuses on what needs to change in the system around a child and family to enable children to thrive.

About You

You will be joining an experienced, supportive and child focused team, who are committed to delivering the best outcomes for children.

As well as your experience, there are some things we require of you to be successfully appointed to this post:

• a full driving licence and willingness to drive
• DBS clearance

How to apply

For an informal chat about this role, please contact Jenny Glassonbury on Jenny.Glassonbury@gloucestershire.gov.uk.  

We reserve the right to close an advertisement earlier than the stated closing date if we receive a suitable number of applications.

Under the terms of our Safer Recruitment Policy, if you are invited to interview, we will take up safeguarding references prior to your interview to understand your suitability to work with vulnerable children. These references will then be discussed in your interview. Please give details of at least two referees, one of whom must be your present and/or last employer and the other from a previous employer(s). These will need to cover the last three years of employment/education. In the case of applicants leaving full time education or not having worked since doing so, the Head of School, College or University should be one of the named referees. We do not accept references from friends or family members or workplace colleagues (who are not more senior). To ensure we process your application in a speedy and efficient way, we will contact your referees by DocuSign. Where appropriate, please inform them of your application.

Additional Information

To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:-

Relief Residential Support Worker

This position is subject to a DBS check.

Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities.  Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.