Barnardo's Caern Disability Services consist of two unique Projects who deliver a variety of quality services for
young people with learning disabilities and/or autism and complex care needs.
We are looking for a dynamic and committed Residential Team Manager to join our Pentland Way Residential
Service.
The Service provides support for up to children and young people (aged 5-18) at any one time, by offering residential
care. All staff play an active role in supporting the children, young people and their families/carers to
achieve positive outcomes, as identified in the Young People's Individual Support Plans. The Service is
Registered with the Care Inspectorate as a Residential Service and all staff must be SSSC registered.
The staff team across Pentland Way Service must be fully accepting of our children and be prepared to offer them a
professional relationship based on love and acceptance, informed by our understanding of their individual needs,
wishes and experiences. We are passionate about the children and young people that we care for, showing
understanding, empathy, and consistency in our approach.
You will also work closely with the Team Managers of our other sister Project, namely Caern Short Break Service.
About You:
We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, and experienced individual who can work on their own initiative and is
proactive. Direct experience of managing a team and knowledge and skills around supporting children and young
people with a learning disability and /or Autism is essential. Safeguarding must be at the heart of your
practice.
Pentland Way is a Registered Service with the Care Inspectorate and as Team Manager, you will be the Registered
Manager of the Service. You will be responsible for overseeing the day to day running of the house, providing
robust management and leadership to the staff team, delivering timely monthly supervision, supporting and
monitoring the quality of work, and ensuring that staff are working to high levels of performance within the
best interests of the children in our care. You will understand budgets, chair and attend external meetings and
will be accountable to the Children's Services Manager who has overall management responsibility of all two
Caern Services.
You will work 37 hours per week and participate in the on-call rota across the three services, for which there is an
allowance paid. Although this is initially for a 12-month fixed period, there is potential for this to become a
permanent post.
Please ensure that you outline on your application how you meet the required criteria listed in the attached
Additional Information Sheet.
If you would like to find out more about this role please contact aileen.gallagher@barnardos.org.uk
Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed
closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.
Pay & Reward Framework
We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment
to Barnardo's values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for
more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.
For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and
progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our
People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their
colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both
their career and their pay.
Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the
minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues
annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on
Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.
Benefits
Workplace Offer: What it means for you
The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as
we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and
empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage
those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our
Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.
- Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage
their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
- Annual Leave
entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years
Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7
years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro
rata
- The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
- A host of
family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family
additional leave options
- Service related sick pay from day 1
- Access to a Group Personal Pension
with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax
and NI savings on your own contribution
- Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff
contributing to our Group Personal Pension
- Cycle2work scheme
- Interest free season ticket
loans
- Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms,
leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
- 20% discount at Barnardo's
stores
- Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy
etc
- Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
- Access to
Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
*T&C's apply based on contract
About Barnardo's
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive
through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and
for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader,
are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place
and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We
particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are
currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout
the recruitment process.