Children's Support Worker - Nights

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

Job summary

A dedicated care provider is seeking a Night Support Worker in Liverpool to care for children with additional health needs. Responsibilities include supporting a 2-year-old with complex needs and a 15-year-old with autism overnight. Applicants must have excellent communication skills and a passion for child care. The role offers comprehensive training, ongoing support, and various benefits including holiday pay and a pension scheme. Female support workers are preferred for these roles due to genuine occupational requirements.

Benefits

Excellent induction training

Paid DBS check

Accrued holiday pay

Nest Personal Pension

Refer a Friend Scheme

Qualifications

• Genuine interest in providing the best person-centred care possible.
• Ability to maintain professional boundaries with clients and families.

Responsibilities

• Support children with additional health needs in their family homes overnight.
• Stay awake to monitor the client and enable the family to sleep.

Skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Passion for working with children

Willingness to learn

Job description

Job Title

Night Support Worker to care for our two children’s care packages in Liverpool.

What you’ll be doing

This role involves working across two children’s packages of care in Liverpool, supporting children with additional health needs in their family homes overnight. You will stay awake overnight to support and monitor the client, enabling the family to go to sleep.

One client is a 2‑year‑old boy who has complex clinical needs and requires clinical equipment, living in the Crosby area (L23). His night shift is 12 hours long (7 pm–7 am).

The other client is a 15‑year‑old boy who has autism and challenging behaviour, living in the Knotty Ash area (L14). His night shift is 10 hours long (9 pm–7 am).

Shifts

• Waking nights (7 pm–7 am and 9 pm–7 am)
• 3 nights a week available

What we can offer you

• Excellent induction training
• Ongoing support from our Children's Care Managers
• Monthly advance rotas
• Paid DBS check
• Accrued holiday pay
• A Nest Personal Pension account
• Recognition of outstanding Active Behaviours via the Active Awards programme
• Refer a Friend Scheme – earn up to £1,000 by recommending someone you know
• Support and guidance from our qualified clinical and business leadership teams so you can develop your career with Active Care in the Home

What we need from you

• A passion for working with children
• Genuine interest in providing the best person‑centred 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

For genuine occupational requirements we can only recruit female support workers for these clients.

Actively encouraging applications from women is an equal opportunities statement; however for genuine occupational requirements female support workers are required for these clients.

Active Care in the Home is an equal opportunities employer. 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, and we are a Disability committed employer.