Recruiter

Blue Octopus Recruitment Ltd

Salary

From £20,000 to £28,000 per year

Location

Bournemouth

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Registered Manager (Childcare, Social Care) BLUS7552
Poole/Bournemouth
Salary up to £28,000 depending on experience

As an independent, not for profit organisation our client works together with families to help meet the needs of local people, of all ages with physical and learning difficulties. They are dedicated to supporting their needs whilst enabling them to experience a lifetime of opportunities and challenges. They endeavour to achieve this through tailor-made programmes of support, developed according to the needs of the individual through every transitional stage of their lives and personal development.

They are now looking to recruit a new Manager for their Children’s home for children and young people who have significant physical and learning impairment.

This is a key position within our client’s Children’s Services Management team and will work alongside our client’s other children’s Service Managers to ensure their deliver exceptional services.

The successful candidate will be the Registered Manager of the service, and will have day to day responsibility for the running of the service. This includes ensuring a safe, high quality and sustainable service at all times for our client’s children and young people.

It is essential that you have or are working towards achieving Level 4 or 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management in Health and Social Care and have at least 5 years management experience. With experience of running a busy children’s or adults service and working within Ofsted regulations, you will have experience of leading and managing a dynamic and established team of supervisors and support workers.

The successful candidate will need to have a clear understanding of Ofsted regulation, Care Standards Act, Children’s Acts, including all safeguarding legislation and, due to the complex nature of our children, it is essential that the successful candidate has a clear understanding of administration of medication as well as different feeding regimes (eg gastrofeeds).

It is essential that the successful individual is able to work flexibly and understand key priorities at all times. A full UK driving licence is also essential.

This is a Blue Octopus Recruitment Ltd vacancy who are operating as an employment agency. Once you have clicked to apply for this vacancy, we will then send you more information on the role including a copy of the application form via email.

Recruiter

Blue Octopus Recruitment Ltd

Salary

From £8.50 to £9.50 per hour

Location

Poole

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Flexible Support Worker Opportunities (Carer, Social Care) BLUF7555
Poole, Dorset
£8.50 - £9.50 p/h
Full time / Part time

As an independent, not for profit organisation our client works together with families to help meet the needs of local people, of all ages with physical and learning difficulties. They are dedicated to supporting their needs whilst enabling them to experience a lifetime of opportunities and challenges. They endeavour to achieve this through tailor-made programmes of support, developed according to the needs of the individual through every transitional stage of their lives and personal development.

They are currently seeking fun and lively individuals to join their ever expanding flexible support team; either on a full time contract (35 hours p/w) or a flexible weekend contract (12 – 24 hours).

The aim of our client’s team is to support individuals with various abilities who live in their own homes to have a full and exciting life. Their current team work hard day to day to help individual achieve their day to day goals and also long-term goals and dreams.

They are looking for support assistants to help the people they support get out and about and access the community and take part in day to day activities such as shopping, socialising, building relationships, sports, college, work, cooking, household jobs and anything else the individual requires.

The job role does include some assistance with personal hygiene and daily care. The role does require people to have a full UK manual driving licence.

In return our client offers a competitive pay rate of £8.50ph Monday to Friday and £9.50ph Saturday and Sunday. Sleep duties are paid at a set rate of £29.

This is a Blue Octopus Recruitment Ltd vacancy who are operating as an employment agency. Once you have clicked to apply for this vacancy, we will then send you more information on the role including a copy of the application form via email.

Recruiter

Hot Recruitment Consultants

Salary

From £14,500 to £22,000 per year

Location

Haywards Heath

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Residential Support Workers, West Sussex: Our client is a private organisation that provides residential care for 'Looked After Children'. Their children's homes are established two and three bedded homes located in East/West Sussex and Surrey and they are looking to recruit the following positions:

* Residential Support Workers
* Senior Residential Support Workers

The Company
They are a child orientated, needs led organisation established to provide a positive life enhancing opportunity for young people who are unable to sustain a placement in their parental homes, foster homes or conventional children's homes. They support children and empower them to face the issues both in their past and present that have caused them difficulties and provide outstanding outcomes for the young people that they care for in the homes.

The Role
This is a challenging but rewarding role supporting 11-18 year olds with emotional behavioural difficulties where no two days are the same and our client is looking for Residential Support Workers who are passionate about helping vulnerable children with complex behaviours to fulfil their potential and are not daunted by challenges.

The Person
To be a Residential Support Worker you will be/have:
* Previous experience of working in the field of Residential Care for Children and Young People
* Able to develop and maintain good working relationships
* Excellent people skills, leadership and communication skills
* Willingness to undertake additional qualifications (Level 3 Diploma CYPW) and training
* Availability to work weekends, evenings and overnight in accordance to shift patterns and requirements.
* Due to the nature of the role, the successful applicant will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS check prior to commencement.

Desired but not essential:
* Level 3 Diploma for the Children & Young People Workforce or equivalent.

The Rewards
Our client has a fantastic support structure in place and is well known for the excellent career development and progression that it offers to all its employees. This rewarding opportunity is offering you a competitive salary of £14,452- £18,419 pa depending on job role and experience plus a sleep in allowance of £21.50 per night which equates to approximately £3,100 per annum

Please note that in accordance with Hot Recruitment Consultants recruitment and consultancy processes, if you are shortlisted your CV may be sent to the Hiring Manager at our Clients' business and by applying for this position you give your consent for us to do so.

You must have eligibility to work in the UK. Please note, only suitable applicants will be contacted and incomplete CVs will not be considered.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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Recruiter

Blue Octopus Recruitment Ltd

Salary

Competitive + Competitive Salaries plus Benefits

Location

Goole

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Lead Teacher and Teaching Assistant Opportunities (Education, Childcare) BLUL7502
Goole, Yorkshire
Competitive Salaries plus Benefits

Our Client is not only the largest but the leading provider of residential childcare, education and fostering services for children and young people. They provide breakthrough care and education pathways for young people, enabling them to achieve a better future.

They are responsible for the education outcomes of children from the ages of 6 to 18 years and their schools provide an alternative to mainstream education offering learners the opportunity to work with specialist, trained staff in small group settings.

They currently have two opportunities available for a Lead Teacher and a Teaching Assistant to join them based in Goole.

Lead Teacher

As a Teacher, you will deliver teaching sessions to young people the majority of whom will have either learning, behavioural difficulties, CSE or all . Within the role you will plan and prepare schemes of work, planning and preparing individual lessons within the schemes of work and endeavouring to integrate sufficient differentiation within tasks and subject matter that all children will be engaged by the lesson.

Candidates for this role should hold QTS and have experience in teaching at Key Stage 3 and 4, working with young people with complex needs and EBD and be able to work within a CSE Home. With good teaching skills and the ability to match your approach to the needs of the pupils, you will have experience of planning schemes of work and lesson plans within the National Curriculum framework and the ability to form effective relationships with children and act as a positive role model.

Teaching Assistant

As a Teaching Assistant, you will assist teachers when requested with the planning and preparation of schemes of work within the general curriculum guidance; including the provision of individual support to young people within an educational setting and assisting teaching staff with the delivery of lessons.

Candidates for this role will ideally have experience in assisting young people with basic literacy and numeracy skills as well as PHSE. An ability to participate in physical education sessions and previous experience of working within an SEBD environment would also be advantageous. Ideally experience with working with CSE would be beneficial

This is a Blue Octopus Recruitment Ltd vacancy who are operating as an employment agency. Once you have clicked to apply for this vacancy, we will then send you more information on the role including a copy of the application form via email.

Recruiter

Athona Ltd.

Salary

From £10,000 to £25,000 per year + Competitive

Location

Essex

Job term

Contract

Job hours

Full time

Athona Education is seeking an enthusiastic Nursery Nurse for a Day Nursery within the Thurrock area. The successful candidate will be placed within the 18-24 month room where the position offered is expected to commence September 2012.

The ideal candidate will be extremely caring, supportive and patient with young children, and have a genuine passion for providing children with the best environment to begin their education in. The successful Nursery Nurse should have some knowledge of the EYFS framework and enjoy aiding children's positive learning and development.

The candidate will ideally be qualified to NVQ Level 3 or equivalent and have strong experience working within a Nursery environment. SEN experience would also be advantageous but not essential.

For more information on this position, please do not hesitate to contact our experienced Education team.

Salary is dependent on experience.

Please note that all candidates will be considered, but not all will be called.

Athona Education are a Quality Mark awarded Agency committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.


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Recruiter

Athona Ltd.

Salary

From £10,000 to £25,000 per year + Competitive

Location

Bishop's Stortford

Job term

Contract

Job hours

Full time

Athona Education is looking for a Learning Support Assistant with strong SEN experience to join a local Primary School in North Essex, commencing September 2012. The LSA will be joining the school on a 1 Term contract initially with the view to turn permanent for the right candidate.

The successful candidate will be working on a one-to-one basis with an Autistic child in Key Stage 2. The child has very challenging behaviour as well as speech and language difficulties, so the successful LSA will need to have a patient nature and be strong willed. The candidate must have experience of working with children with SEN as well as having good knowledge of the Key Stage 2 National Curriculum. A childcare or SEN qualification would be advantageous but not essential for the success of this role.

The chosen candidate can look forward to joining a friendly and supportive School, where they will receive encouragement and support to develop.

If you are interested in this position, please do not hesitate to contact our experienced Education team.

Please note that all Candidates will be considered, but not all will be called.

Salary is dependent on experience.

Athona Education is a Quality Mark awarded Agency committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.


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Recruiter

Education Plus

Salary

From £6 to £13 per hour

Location

London

Job term

Temporary

Job hours

Full time

PLEASE DO NOT APPLY IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A CRB or ARE WILLING TO HAVE ONE CARRIED OUT WILL COST 46.
ALSO PLEASE DON'T APPLY IF YOU HAVEN'T WORKED IN A HOSTEL ENVIRONMENT BEFORE- if not sure pls call Has on ' [contact details removed] Support Housing Assistant/ Officer/ Key Worker/ Life Mentor:

We work for one of the largest charities that require staff to provide temporary cover to 16-25 homeless young people all around London.

Contract will initially be on a temporary basis but for the right candidates contracts with the charity are offered.

We are seeking life mentors- so candidates that can meet up with the young individuals, that may have alcohols/ drug/ substance misuse or challenging behavior and build up relationships and trust with them, support etc- acting as a role model and inspirational figure.

Aspects of the role will involve:
Supporting and helping them in this difficult time and help them get back on their feet.
Admin report writing.
Computer and IT literacy- as will need to navigate around the internet to show young person how to claim DSS payment/ rent collection/ benefit enquires or queries or CV creation.
Basic life skills
Manning and working within reception- ensuring security and also young people within the hostel have a contact and support point of call if they have any problems
Occasion provide support to them in the weekend and night
Type of residential housing varies and the charity is huge. On some of the houses the hours will only be during the day. On some there may be the occasional night shift where you will either need to be awake or you can sleep and just be a presence at the unit.
You may also need to work the occasional weekends.

Other information:

Basic Hours: 37 hours per week

If 3 month contract not offered, there is also an option of being placed on their rota to provide cover until a longer term contract becomes available.

They are looking for individuals that are passionate and want to make a difference and are also polished as progression is possible.

The reason I mention the above is as there are so many units so the main thing is to impress and then you will be placed in a unit that suits you best. The more flexible you are the better it is for all of us and more work you will get.

Pay:

8ph to 9.74ph

On units where outreach work involved, pls keep receipts and this will be refunded by the charity.

We have various roles at the moment varying from ad hoc shift cover to part time to full time.
All immediate starts.

Recruiter

Education Plus

Salary

Competitive + Very competitive

Location

London

Job term

Contract

Job hours

Full time

We are looking for a senior supported housing officer to work in the Lewisham area for a homeless charity. We are looking for an experienced senior/ team leader supported housing officer to start an immediate contract on an ongoing basis.

This role has the potential to turn into a more permanent role for the right candidate and opportunities within the charity are available as well.

The type of character we are looking for is one that has housing management experience. Experience with dealing with challenging behaviour, as the young homeless people may have alcohol/ drug/ substance misuse. Risk assessments, health and safety, leavers care experience, experience with external agencies and rent arrears all the above NEEDS to be highlighted on your CV

The idea candidate will be able to deal with a large amount of work and be able to prioritise there workload.

You will have a CRB and also be happy to start a new CRB on commencement of contract.

5 years referencing will also be required, so please do not apply if you cannot provide 5 years referencing and also a fully enhanced CRB.


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Recruiter

Education Plus

Salary

Competitive + Very competitive

Location

South West London

Job term

Contract

Job hours

Full time

We are seeking a full time floating support officer to working in the Wandsworth borough helping young people gain independence and achieve there goals. The position is an immediate start an suitable candidates will have a CRB less than a year old.

The role is a full time position for a floating support officer than will be handling a casehold and will have to attend meetings with local authorities.

It is key that the floating support officer has leavers care experience and an engaging and hard working ethos.

If you are able to provide references and also have a CRB and relevant social services and leaving care experience please contact Has on ' [contact details removed] ASAP.


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