Job Title: Children’s Residential Care Worker.

Location: Standlake, Oxford.

Salary: £29,180-£35,732.

Sleep-in allowance: Up to £4,000 a year.

Job type: Permanent, full-time.

About the role :

We’re looking for Children’s Residential Care Workers to join our team and play a key part in supporting children who have experienced significant trauma. From cooking and cinema trips to arts and crafts, you’ll help children build healthy relationships and discover the benefits of education.

Responsibilities:

• Provide practical day-to-day care of children.
• Plan cultural, physical, recreational and educational activities.
• Monitor the care and treatment of your assigned children.
• Provide creative and effective care planning.
• Build appropriate therapeutic relationships with the children.
• Develop your understanding of therapeutic childcare practice.

Benefits:

• 50 days’ holiday per year.
• Sleep-in allowances (up to 4k annually)
• Paid overtime.
• Salary above sector average.
• Formal and informal wellbeing support.
• Employer pension contribution of 6%.
• Enhanced parental leave benefits.
• Subsidised meals.
• The opportunity to complete a fully accredited and funded Foundation Degree (FdA) in Therapeutic Work with Children and Young People.

About you:

• Resilient and committed to making a positive impact.
• Open to further training and development.
• Happy getting hands-on with a range of activities.
• Believe in the untapped potential of children.
• Provide guidance and support to help children thrive.

Shift Patterns :

• Shift patterns are set a term in advance.
• 40 hours per week over 7 days, between 8 am - 10 pm.
• You’ll be required to participate in the sleep-in rota.
• This could involve 1-2 sleep-ins per week, including weekends.
• Sleep-ins take place from 10 pm - 8 am. These hours are paid as overtime.
• The number of sleep-ins is not set and will be subject to change based on staff availability.

About the Mulberry Bush :

The Mulberry Bush is a therapeutic community, registered as a children’s home and a non-maintained residential special school. Since 1948, we’ve been helping to transform the lives of children who have experienced trauma with specialist therapeutic services and fulfilling activities.

You’re not just part of a team here, you’re part of a family. Support echoes through our community, and your colleagues are always there to lend a hand or share a smile.

We believe we offer something special - and we’d love you to be part of it.

Apply now :

If you have any questions about the role or the work we do, please email the HR team at careers@mulberrybush.org.uk

Shortlisted applicants must…

• Be prepared to attend a visitor session.
• Complete an application form.
• Have the right to work indefinitely in the UK.
• Be prepared to participate in the DBS criminal background checking process.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £29,180.00-£35,732.00 per year

Application question(s):

• Do you have the right to work in the UK?

Licence/Certification:

• Driving Licence (required)

Work Location: In person