Children's Support Worker - Nights

TN United Kingdom; Southampton; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking compassionate Children's Support Workers for waking night shifts in Southampton and Winchester. This rewarding role involves supporting children with complex health needs in their family homes. You will provide essential care during night shifts, ensuring their safety and comfort. Full training and ongoing support will be provided, along with opportunities for professional development. If you have a passion for working with children and are flexible in your availability, this position offers a fulfilling career path in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Full specialist training

Ongoing support from Clinical Care Manager

Regular consistent work with rolling rotas

Wide range of training and development opportunities

Active Awards programme

Refer a Friend Scheme up to £1,500

Qualifications

• Candidates must possess a passion for working with children and a caring nature.
• Flexibility and reliability are essential for this role.

Responsibilities

• Support a 13-year-old boy and a 5-year-old girl with complex health needs.
• Provide waking night shifts in family homes, ensuring their safety and comfort.

Skills

Passion for working with children

Kind and caring nature

Flexibility

Reliability

Job description

Children's Support Worker - Nights, Southampton

Client:

Active Care Group

Location:

Southampton, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

17cdec2bcc1b

Job Views:

2

Posted:

13.04.2025

Expiry Date:

28.05.2025

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

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
• 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
• 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
• Support and guidance of our qualified clinical and business leadership teams to 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.

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