Children's Support Worker - Nights

Active Care Group Recruitment; Poole; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

Join one of the UK's leading providers of complex care as a Children’s Support Worker. Support a young boy with complex health needs at home, requiring kindness and proactive care during Tuesday night shifts. Enjoy flexible hours, full training, and competitive pay.

Benefits

Full specialist training

Accrued holiday pay

Flexible zero hours contract

Active Learning Hub for training opportunities

Nest Personal Pension account

Refer a Friend Scheme

Support from clinical leadership teams

Qualifications

• Experience in caring environments preferred, but not mandatory.
• Willingness to provide support for children with complex health needs.
• Understanding of non-verbal communication techniques.

Responsibilities

• Support a young boy with complex health needs overnight.
• Assist with clinical equipment and ensure safety.
• Engage and build rapport with the child to understand his non-verbal cues.

Skills

Kind and caring nature

Flexibility & reliability

Good communication skills

Job description

Are you looking for a part time job, for Tuesday nights?

Would you love a rewarding role, supporting a child with complex health needs in their family home?

Come and join one of the UK's largest providers of complex care.

Within the Care in the Home division, we support children with complex health needs to live at home with their families.

We'd like you to join us as a Children’s Support Worker at our young clients home in Poole.

Meet the Client:

I am 11y years old. I have complex care needs and am non verbal. I need compassionate carers who will take time to get to know me , so that you can more easily read my non verbal communication . Additionally, be quick thinking and proactive to keep me safe at night. I particularly like music and can hum you lots of tunes. Mummy says I am an easy boy, getting to know me is key and if you take time to know me , I really am and your time supporting me will be very rewarding.

When you'll be working:

• Tuesday nights(9pm-7am)
• 1 regular night a week, but flexibility to cover Monday nights aswell when the Monday Night Support Worker is off

What you'll be doing:

This role is to support a young boy with complex health needs in his family home overnight. This will involve supporting him with his clinical equipment. Full training, shadow shifts and ongoing support will be provided.

What you'll have:

• Kind and caring nature
• Flexibility & reliability
• Good communication skills

What to look forward to:

• up to 13.50 per hour (depending on experience)
• Full specialist training, shadow shifts, and ongoing support from the Care Manager provided
• Accrued holiday pay
• Regular consistent work with rolling rotas
• Flexible zero hours contract
• Join the Active Learning Hub and benefit from a wide range of e learning and face to face training and development opportunities
• A Nest Personal Pension account
• We recognise outstanding Active Behaviours via the Active Awards programme
• Refer a Friend Scheme and earn yourself up to £1,500 by recommending someone you know
• ……and, of course, the support and guidance of our qualified clinical and business leadership teams so that you can really develop your career with Active Care Group

Active Care Group are an equal opportunities employer, however for genuine occupational requirements we require female support workers for this client.