Working for Us

STAFFING

Registered Manager - Nava S. Navaratnarajah BSc (Hons)

Nava S. Navaratnarajah (Registered Manager). Qualifications and experience include BSc (Hons), NVQ IV in Health and Social Care Management and Post Graduate Diploma in Management of Human Services. He has over 25 years experience in care management and established Ashcroft House in 1995.  He has been the Registered Manager of Ashcroft House since 2005. He has undertaken specialist training including substance misuse, relapse prevention, communication, motivation and child safeguarding.

KEY WORKERS

Minimum qualification - educated to degree level in a relevant sector and have at least two years experience in the field of substance misuse.

Paula House BA (Hons) in Youth & Community Education

 Over three years experience in the substance misuse field and over seven years experience in youth and community sector.  Undetaken training in alcohol awareness, child protection, infection control and the protection of vulnerable adults. Volunteer experience in youth and community organisations.

 Gemma Nelson BA (Hons) in Criminal Justice & Policing

Seven years experience in the criminal justice sector with five years serving as a prison officer in HM Prison Service, gaining extensive experience in the substance misuse field and specialising in working with vulnerable individuals such as those at risk of self harm/suicide. Voluntary work undertaken in youth justice boards.

Nursery Nurse - CACHE Diploma (Level 3), BTEC National Diploma in Childcare, NVQ Level 3 or equivalent qualifications.

Team of Support Workers who provide 24 hour cover.  These staff have a range of skills and qualifications, including health and social care, community justice, counselling, housing, mental health, education and traiing, food hygiene, first aid, substance misuse, parenting, childcare, learning,development and nurturing, learning difficulties and safeguarding.  Support Workers are responsible for supervising activities outside programme time, providing support and upholding the rules of the house.

At team meetings, all staff give feedback on the progress of individual mothers and their children, discuss any areas of concern and plan for the following week.  Weekly management meetings with the Registered Manager review the overall work of Ashcroft House.

JOB VACANCIES - Restricted to female candidates only*

 We have no other vacancies at the present time, but please keep checking if you are interested in joining our team in the future.

All our job descriptions and forms are in Adobe Acrobat format. You should have Acrobat Reader installed on your PC to be able to open these.You can download and install Adobe Acrobat Reader free by clicking this link.

JOB DESCRIPTIONS 

• Key Worker  
• Support Worker (evening/ night)  
• Support Worker (weekend day)  
• Nursery Nurse  

APPLICATION FORMS 

• Job application form  
• Health check form    

HOW TO APPLY?

If you have relevant skills and experience and would like to join the Rehabilitation team at Ashcroft House then please complete BOTH Job Application and Health Check forms and send with  your upto date CV by e-mail (as attachment) or fax to:

Registered Manager,
Ashcroft House, 147 – 149 Newport Road,
Roath, Cardiff CF2 1AG
Telephone: 029-2041 5400
jobs@ashcrofthouse.org.uk

ELECTRONIC FORM SUBMISSION

If you have Adobe Acrobat 8.0 or higher installed on your PC, you may be able to make an electronic submission of the job application and health check forms. If prompted, please select to open Acrobat Reader, complete the forms and SUBMIT individual application and health check forms by clicking the SUBMIT BUTTON or altenatively save and print. CV will still need to be sent to compliment the forms as an e-mail attachment.

SENDING BY POST

Completed forms and CV may be sent by Royal Mail. Please ensure correct postage is pre-paid as the postal rates depend on the size of the envelope and not necessarily its weight. Forms with inadequate stamps or requiring penalty payments will not be considered. Alternatively, the forms and CV may be hand delivered to our letter box. Personal callers are not seen unless a prior appointment is confirmed. Short listed candidates will be invited to visit the centre by appointment and talk with the Registered Manager and the staff.

VETTING & BARRING SCHEME

 All staff employments are subject to satisfactory Enhanced Criminal Records Bureau checks and, from July 2010, registration with the Independent Safeguarding Authority.  CRB checks and ISA registration must be completed and satisfactory refernces obtained before employment can commence. 

MANDATORY TRAINING

All staff are expected to hold or to register for appropriate NVQ/QCF Awards in Social Care/Child Care or any other relevant training and staff development courses as required. 

* Statutory Exemption: All posts are restricted to female applicants only under Section 7(2) (e) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 unless expressly stated otherwise.