Day/Night Residential Worker - Ferndale

Job Summary

The post holder will work as part of the Residential team at Ferndale Children’s Services delivering high quality residential care to children and young people who require to be looked after away from home on a full time 35 hour per week contract.

The post holder will also be required to undertake Outreach work in the community, this will involve supporting young people and their families while they remain at home.

The post holder will work in partnership with families, social workers, education and health to support children and young people to promote welfare and development and achieve best outcomes in line with ‘Getting It Right For Every Child’ and the SHANARRI principles.

The post holder will contribute to the continuous achievements and improvements of Ferndale Children’s Services and Ferndale Outreach Service, participate in all inspections and deliver practice of a high standard.

There is a flexible 5/7 working rota which is planned to ensure consideration of holidays, training and outings. There is a requirement to cover day, evening and nightshift duties, sleepover duties during emergencies. There is also requirement to work out with core daily hours or weekends dependent on the requirements of the service.

In line with SSSC registration requirement for Residential Child Care, the post holder will have a mandatory academic qualification - minimum of HNC in Social Care or equivalent academic social care award at SQF level 9 or above.  The post holder will also hold a Practice Qualification - SVQ 3 or equivalent or be committed to undertake the required SVQ 3 Qualification as determined by the SSSC for Residential Child Care services.

If you require any more information please contact Kelly Bramley, Depute Manager or Philip Maguire, House Manger on  Show phone number.

Philip Maguire, House Manager, Ferndale Children's Residential Service, East Dunbartonshire Council, Tel:  Show phone number, Fax: Show phone number

e-mail:  View email address on myjobscotland.gov.uk

Benefits to working within East Dunbartonshire Council

• Annual Leave - Employees benefit from 26 days annual leave, rising to 36 days depending on the length of service, and 6 fixed public holidays per year. For part-time employees the days are on a pro-rata basis.
• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) - The Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) in Scotland is a funded, defined benefit occupational pension scheme with employee contributions starting at 5.5% with a minimum of 19.3% Employer contributions.
• Employee Wellbeing - The wellbeing of all our employees is extremely important to us, and we are a Healthy Working Lives Gold award holder. We offer an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to our employees, which provide a range of support services to employees 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Occupational health services are also available.
• All East Dunbartonshire Council employees are eligible to join Scotwest Credit Union and save directly from their wages or salary each pay day.
• Discounted corporate membership at EDLC Leisure Centres based at; the Leisuredrome in Bishopbriggs, Kirkintilloch Leisure Centre and the Allander in Bearsden

PVG/Disclosure Scotland

The following criteria applies to all roles within East Dunbartonshire Council where PVG/Disclosure checks are essential criteria.

Where the post you are applying for is considered a Regulated Role under the Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020, successful candidates will be required to join the PVG Scheme, or undergo a PVG Scheme Update check, prior to confirmation of employment being made by East Dunbartonshire Council.

Please note, successful candidates will be expected to meet the cost of the relevant check which will be deducted from the successful candidate’s first salary payment. Successful candidates who withdraw their application after the check process has started will be invoiced for the cost of the check.

In specific circumstances the payment could be deducted in instalments from an employee’s wages following commencement of employment. Approval in such circumstances will be made by the HR &OD Manager.

Should an employee leave in advance of the payment being deducted, the full amount will be deducted from the employee’s final salary.

The criteria outlined above will apply to existing employees of East Dunbartonshire Council who apply for roles for which a PVG/Disclosure check is required.

Candidates for certain roles requiring a PVG, who are new entrants to the Social Care workforce, there is currently no charge.

Charter of Commitment

The commitment by East Dunbartonshire Council to job applicants is as follows:

• Individuals will be treated in a polite, friendly and welcoming manner.

• Equalities monitoring will be conducted to ensure a fair and equitable process with screening being carried out to anonymise sensitive information such as age, gender and disability.

• The information that we receive will be treated in confidence and with discretion. Only the relevant HR representative/team and the relevant service will see the application form.

• We will encourage and welcome applications from applicants under the disability symbol. Where the essential criteria are met an interview will be offered to those applying under the disability symbol.

• We will be pleased to make any reasonable adjustments to ensure accessibility at the interview.

• We will advise you within reasonable time after the closing date if you have not met the interview criteria. (Normally within 4 weeks)

• We will advise you of meeting the criteria for interview normally within 3 weeks.

• We will advise you if you have been successful or unsuccessful at the interview stage as soon as practically possible.

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