Residential Support Worker
Hourly Rate: 7.15 per hour whilst completing Diploma 3 in Health and Social Care, £8.00 per hour upon completion

The Acorn Group is a specialist company providing wrap around services for children in care. Due to expansion, Acorn is seeking to add to its successful management team.

The successful candidate will join one of the few expanding and specialist children's services. Within four years Acorn Group has already established itself with a wide range of authorities for the provision and excellence of care and support we give young people.
Our reputation is preceding us and you will be joining a team with a strong philosophy and ability to deliver for every young person.

Acorns approach to young people in care services involves significant involvement in external activities and programs of sports and community involvement.

This position is subject to enhanced DBS checks and references.

To apply please send your CV in the first instance to the Human Resources Department on hr@ahgroup.eu or on the address below:

Human Resources, Acorn Group Ltd, Northdown House, Northdown Park Road, Margate, Kent, CT9 3TP and if you would like an informal discussion concerning this position please contact us on: 01843-482510

Acorn is an equal opportunities employer.

Working for the Acorn Group
The Acorn Group provides an extensive range of specialist services throughout the South of England, including Residential Sports and Activities led Children's Homes, Semi-Independent Living and Education via our own DFE registered school.
We aim to promote the development of personal, social and academic skills alongside a sense of team spirit, where Children and Young People are enabled to positively channel frustration and negative experiences through sports and other energising activities.
Every member of our childcare team is equally important to us, whether they are a Residential Support Worker, School Support Assistant or our Operations Director.
Every staff member will experience a variety of situations on a daily basis, making roles with Acorn Homes both challenging and rewarding.
Support and Training is at the heart of the Acorn Homes Group, and as such, staff are encouraged to enhance their knowledge and skills and work towards nationally recognised qualifications and career development.

Our Philosophy of Care
The Acorn Group’s Philosophical approach is based in on the concept that we strongly believe that Children and Young People need positive engagement and re-enforcement through creative play, sporting activities and individual interests, abilities and talents.

We aim to provide children and Young People with new and exciting experiences that will develop and enhance their confidence and self-esteem to bring about positive changes in their lives.

Acorn Group’s sporting engagement approach uniquely prepares and equips the Children and Young People in our service to better deal with life’s challenges.

We have a multi-talented and diverse staff team who have the ability to role model and develop relationships with Young People in our care, whose early attachments with their primary care givers has often been inconsistent and not developed securely.

Our approach enables the Young People we care for to develop and maximise their full potential. Young People can then achieve a sense of belonging and equilibrium in their lives, feeling safe and secure as a start to equip them with the necessary tools and attributes to lead successful, independent and meaningful pathways

Residential Services
All homes are suitable for both genders for between eleven and eighteen years old.
Our homes provide a safe environment incorporating our philosophy of care. We provide comprehensive planned or emergency services for Young People in need of immediate, temporary or longer term support and intervention. Each Young Person will have an individual planner that caters for all their interests, whatever these may be, to engage and channel them in a positive way. We believe it is hugely important that the Young Person not only feels part of the family environment but also the community, through various clubs, schools, charities and other organisations they may participate with. Stability, structure and routine, with staff groups who genuinely care, is key to a Young Person achieving.

Quality Assurance
The aim of Acorn Homes Quality Assurance is to implement framework that can assist in improving outcomes for the children in our care.

The Framework is influenced by guidelines such as:
Adoption and Children Act 2002 (and associated National Minimum Standards and statutory guidance);
Care Standards Act 2000 (and associated National Minimum Standards);
Children Act 1989 Guidance and Regulations Volume 5: Children’s Homes(2011);
Children and Young Person’s Act 2008 (and associated Care Planning, Placement and Care Review Regulations);
Children Act 2004;
Working Together to Safeguard Children (Department for Children, Schools and Families, 2010).