Social Care Services Group

Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (or TCI) training is one of the most essential parts of our employees progression at Social Care Services Group.

It empowers our staff to feel confident when responding to young people in crisis in a therapeutic and nurturing manner. Through positive behaviour management and crisis communication the staff are better able to work with the children to achieve positive outcomes.

Our accredited trainers recently delivered 6 days of training and received positive feedback from our team members.

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We're excited to announce the opening of our new Eccles Children's home.

The home provides 2 beds for neurodiverse children and is already full.

It is a great addition to Social Care Services Group as our second home for children with neurodiversity.

Well done to everyone involved in achieving the Ofsted Registration.

Becks is another of our Quality Assurance Managers and Responsible Individuals.

Having joined Social Care Services Group in 1999 as a student, she has worked her way up to her current role with past job titles at our company including
🏠 Residential Care Worker
🏠 Assistant Manager
🏠 Registered Manager
of over 4 our our homes across the North West.

We have a passion for supporting our staff with their progression through the company and continually provide opportunities for further training, career development and personal growth throughout their career here.

We asked Becks what her favourite part of her job is:

“I really love opening the new homes and welcoming young people into our care. But even more rewarding is seeing them move on, whether that be into foster placements, back into their family homes or progressing to our leaving care homes.

I also really love supporting our staff and seeing their confidence grow over time.”

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For nearly 35 years, Social Care Services Group has provided high quality, safe homes for young people 🏠

In recent years we have steered our focus to work closely with, and support North West authorities in meeting their local sufficiency agendas and keep children close to their families, friends and community wherever possible. We aim to minimise the amount of disruption they’ll experience while in our care while offering a safe, caring living environment.

We currently have 11 homes open across greater Manchester and the North West with exciting development plans for the coming year.

Want to work for a company that encourages progression, offers valuable training and certification opportunities in a role that truly makes a difference every day?

Apply via our website here: https://www.scsltd.org/careers

As supporters of the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter we have made a commitment to improve practice in all good characteristics, building on our long established policies and procedures.

At Social Care Services Group this currently looks like:

🧠 Training and development opportunities including supporting our employees to achieve their level 3/4 diplomas in Residential Child Care.

🔒 Secure long term employment with transparency around employee hours and contracts

🏅 Providing exciting opportunities for internal promotions

❤️ Health Assured employee assistance programme

🤝 Fair recruitment practices

🏡 Real living wage starting pay

We’re excited to continue working towards even better employment practices as the company continues to grow, retaining existing employees and attracting new talent in the coming years.

Want to join our team?

We have a variety of vacancies currently open, apply here: https://uk.indeed.com/cmp/Social-Care-Services-Group-1/jobs

2024 is forecasted to be a really exciting year for Social Care Services Group as we plan to open a number of new homes including our second home to support young people with learning difficulties and special educational needs.

With these plans ahead, we’re looking to recruit for a number of roles across the North West including:

🏡 Residential Care Worker

🏡 Senior Residential Care Worker

🏡 Assistant Manager

🏡 Registered Manager

You can find more details on the roles on our new website:

Careers | Social Care Services The work we do with young people is incredibly rewarding, at times challenging and requires a resilient, passionate personality to succeed. 

We caught up with Bella, our Quality Assurance Manager and Responsible Individual for 5 of our children’s homes across the North West.

Bella has worked for Social Care Services Group for over 21 years, starting with the company in 2003 as a residential care worker, progressing up to her current role over the years.

She ran us through what a typical day can look like for her:

“Day to day, I can be doing a number of different things; visiting the homes, spending time with the staff and kids, providing training, doing manager supervisions and supporting with recruitment.

The most important part of my role is how closely I work with the homes to ensure they are ran safely so that the young people in our care feel happy and secure where they are living.

I love to see the growth in the children and watching them take on important milestones such as their GCSEs and proms is such a privilege. I think it’s so important to celebrate their successes, no matter how big or small.

But as well as the kids, it’s important to see our staff flourish too. I love to see our employees stepping out of their comfort zones and developing themselves within their roles.”

Additionally, we asked Bella what she was most excited for at SCS in the coming months:

“We’ve got a new learning disability home opening later in the year. It’s really exciting as it’s our second specialist home and something we’ve been wanting to do for a really long time. It’s thanks to having the right staff in place that we’re finally able to achieve it.”

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Introducing Jim, our Recruitment and Training Manager.

He’s been with Social Care Services Group for over 20 years, overseeing the progression and development of some of our longest serving employees alongside our newest recruits.

With another run of training coming up, Jim has shared some insights into the course:

“In June I’ll be training our newest employees under the Therapeutic Crisis Intervention system (or TCI for short) which is essential for the wellbeing of both our staff and young people in care.

Over 3 weeks, the training gives our employees the tools they need to support young people with emotional competence, recognising triggers and early interventions for dealing with vulnerable children.

Using innovative role plays, we run through a number of scenarios that our employees may come across within their roles and ensure they’re confidently able to support children and help them to learn new coping strategies.”

That’s the training aspect of his role covered, we also asked Jim about recruitment, and what it is he looks for in a prospective candidate:

“Half of my job as recruiter is recognising potential in applicants.

We’re looking for enthusiasm, a sense of humour and someone who is prepared for the amazing and often difficult challenge of working with children in care”

Think you could be a good fit?

Fill out the application form over on our website:

Residential Care Worker | Social Care Services Looking for a rewarding and challenging career? Social Care Services Group offer residential care worker roles in a number of young adult homes across the North West. Send your application in today.

Last month our leaving care residential care worker, Debbie completed her 31 miles in 31 days walk challenge in aid of Cancer Research UK.

Not only did she complete it, she smashed it, doing a total of 93 miles.

But she wasn’t alone; one of our young people from our Leaving Care home in Clayton went even further, doing 114 miles to raise money for life saving research into the prevention and cure of breast cancer.

An amazing achievement for both of them, well done 🏆

We’ve supported hundreds of young people in our homes across the North West over the last 35 years.

Throughout, our priority has remained offering safe, comfortable homes where children can work towards positive outcomes for their futures.

We're pleased to celebrate National Children’s Day and all the young people in our care, both past and present.

Been a busy few weeks and lots to celebrate:
Congratulations to Jack for completing and passing his Ofsted Registered Manager Interview - well deserved!
Congratulations for Sam and her team at Coral House for an excellent Ofsted Inspection this week - feedback from Ofsted is excellent!
Finally well done to our newest staff recruits for passing their TCI (Therapeutic Crisis Intervention) 5 day training course. All 17 attendees were superb in September.
Lots more to celebrate and let's not forget the children in their homes for trying so hard at school and within the community they live within. Some small steps for now and some giant leaps forward in life!

The Company has two new homes under development and soon to be registered with Ofsted. This will create safe and nurturing homes for children and also fantastic opportunities to make a real difference to chidren's lives by becoming one of our Residential Child Care Workers.
If you are interested in more information then contact our Recruitment team and be part of something challenging and often amazing!
Benefits include: secure and good rates of pay, career development opportunities, bonus schemes, pension schemes and a feeling of job satisfaction.
Shift work includes: paid sleep-ins, waking nights and working some weekends.
Locations include: Chorlton, Stockport, Salford, Bolton, Leigh and Wigan.
Contact: [email protected]