Children's Support Worker

Active Care Group; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Active Care Group, one of the UK's largest care providers, invites you to join as a Support Worker in Liverpool. In this rewarding role, you'll support children with autism and challenging behavior in their family homes while benefiting from ongoing professional development and support.

Benefits

Ongoing support from Children's Care Managers

Paid DBS Check

Nest Personal Pension account

Active Awards Programme

Refer a Friend Scheme

Monthly advance rotas

Qualifications

• Previous experience with autism and challenging behavior required.
• Genuine interest in providing person-centered care.
• Willingness to learn and develop professionally.

Responsibilities

• Provide care for children with additional health needs.
• Support children in their family homes during day and night shifts.
• Work across different packages of care.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Flexibility

Job description

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Do you have previous experience with autism and challenging behaviour?

Would you love a rewarding role, supporting children in their family homes?

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

Within the Care in the Home division, we support children within their family homes.

We'd like you to join us as a Support Worker to care for our growing CYP (children & young people) client base in Liverpool.

What you'll be doing:

We are expanding our children's care packages in the Liverpool area. Therefore, we are looking to grow our team.

This role is to work across children's packages of care in Liverpool. You must be flexible to work both day and night shifts, supporting children with additional health needs (mainly challenging behaviour) in their family homes.

We require candidates who have previous experience with autism and challenging behaviour.

Shifts:

• Must be flexible to work both day and waking night shifts
• Must be flexible for short shifts and long shifts (mornings/afternoons/evenings/long days/waking nights)
  
• Must be flexible to work across packages

What we can offer you:

• Ongoing support from our Children's Care Managers
• Monthly advance rotas
• Paid DBS Check
• A Nest PersonalPensionaccount
• We recognise outstanding Active Behaviours via the Active Awards programme
• Refer a Friend Scheme and earn yourself up to £1000 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

What we need from you:

• A passion for working with children
• Previous experience with autism and challenging behavior
• Have a genuine interest in providing the best person centered care possible
• Willingness to learn and develop
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Maintain professional boundaries with the client and their family members, adhering to direction from the care manager as appropriate

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.