Children's Support Worker - Nights

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

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking compassionate individuals to join their team as Children's Support Workers. This rewarding role involves working night shifts to support children with complex health needs in their family homes. You'll provide essential care and companionship, ensuring their safety and comfort while staying awake during your shifts. With comprehensive training and a supportive team, this position offers a fulfilling opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of young clients. If you have a kind nature and a passion for helping children, this could be the perfect role for you!

Benefits

Full specialist training

Accrued holiday pay

Flexible zero hours contract

Nest Personal Pension account

Active Awards programme

Refer a Friend Scheme

Qualifications

• No formal education required, but passion for child care is essential.
• Full training and ongoing support provided.

Responsibilities

• Support children with complex health needs during waking night shifts.
• Stay awake for the full duration of the shift to provide care.

Skills

Passion for working with children

Kind and caring nature

Flexibility

Reliability

Good communication skills

Job description

Are you looking for a role for waking nights, 2-3 nights a week?

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 and young people with complex health needs to live at home with their families.

We'd like you to join us as a Children's Support Worker to support our young clients in their family homes in Lordswood (Southampton) and Winchester.

When you'll be working:

• Waking nights
• 1 night a week in Lordswood (Southampton) - 10pm-8am
• Plus 1-2 nights a week in Winchester - 8pm-8am
• We require candidates who are flexible on what nights of the week they can work

What you'll be doing:

This role is to support a 13 year old boy with complex health needs in his family home in Lordswood (Southampton), and a 5 year old girl with epilepsy and learning disabilities in her home in Winchester, doing waking night shifts. This will involve staying awake for the full duration of the shift to support them.

Full training, shadow shifts and ongoing support will be provided.

What you'll have:

• Passion for working with children
• Kind and caring nature
• Flexibility & reliability
• Good communication skills

What to look forward to:

• £12.25 up to £12.50 per hour (depending on experience)
• Full specialist training, shadow shifts, and ongoing support from the Clinical 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.

We also want to ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable facilities to participate in job applications or interviews to perform essential job functions. To support this, we are a Disability confident employer.