Children's Support Worker - School Hours

Active Care Group Recruitment; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider as a Children's Support Worker in Shrewsbury. You'll provide 1:1 support to a 16-year-old girl with complex health needs during school hours. The role requires a caring and reliable individual who is passionate about working with children. Full training and support will be provided, along with regular work and a competitive hourly rate.

Benefits

Accrued holiday pay

Access to e-learning and training opportunities

Nest Personal Pension account

Active Awards programme

Refer a Friend Scheme

Qualifications

• Full training and ongoing support provided.
• Experience in care or support roles preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support our 16-year-old client at her special needs school.
• Assist with mobility, insulin management, and communication.

Skills

Passion for working with children

Kind and caring nature

Flexibility

Reliability

Good communication skills

Job description

Are you looking for a term time only role, for school hours (Monday-Friday, 8.50am-3.20pm)?

Would you love a rewarding role, supporting a 16 year old girl with complex health needs as her 1:1 support at her special needs school?

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.

We'd like you to join us as a Children's Support Worker with our brand new young client in Shrewsbury.

When you'll be working:

• Monday-Friday, 8.50am-3.20pm
• This is a term time only role
  

What you'll be doing:

This role is to support our brand new 16 year old female client at her special needs school.

Our client is a wheelchair user, requires insulin, has a gastrostomy and has limited communication.

We are looking to recruit a one to one carer to support her at her school, from September 25 onwards.

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 £13 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
  

• 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 committed employer.