Children'S Support Worker - Weekends

Active Care Group; Maidenhead; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 25,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Nest pension

Active Learning Hub

Refer a friend bonus

Job summary

Active Care Group is hiring a Female Support Worker to assist an eight-year-old girl with complex needs in Maidenhead. The role focuses on play, therapy and care within the family home, working weekends with potential weekday coverage.

Role requires empathy, a can-do attitude, and experience in childcare or health care. A genuine occupational requirement applies, with support from a dedicated care team and training provided.

Qualifications

• Experience caring for children with complex needs preferred.
• Ability to engage and play with a child who uses eye-gaze, PODD, and switches.

Responsibilities

• Support a single child in her family home with play, therapy and care.
• Assist with daily routines during weekend shifts (Sat & Sun 7am-7pm).
• Contribute to a consistent care team with planned rotas.

Skills

Childcare experience

Can-Do attitude

Job description

Are you looking for a role for weekends (Sat & Sun, 7am-7pm)?

Do you have childcare experience?

Would you love a rewarding role, supporting our young client with complex needs in her family home?

Join Active Assistance and support our young client in Maidenhead.

This is more than just a job — it’s a chance to build a trusted connection with one child and make a genuine difference in their life.

About the role:

This role is to support an 8 year old little girl with complex health needs in her family home, where she lives with her mum and dad and two dogs.

She has complex needs including cerebral palsy, epilepsy, gastrostomy tube and she is non-verbal. We are looking for enthusiastic people with a real “Can-Do” attitude to join our support team to assist with play, therapy & care.

Our 8-year-old client is non-ambulant but walks with a walker, is non-verbal, but understands everything! She has a high level of receptive and expressive language using different methods of communication, including eye-gaze, PODD book, partner assisted scanning and switches. She is an adrenaline junkie, has a great sense of humour, loves to cause mischief & laugh out loud! This role is primarily about play & adventure – letting your imagination loose & adapting activities to suit client needs.

Shifts:

• Weekends
• Saturdays and Sundays, 7am-7pm
• with flexiblity to cover weekday shifts when needed

In this role, you’ll support one individual with complex needs as part of a consistent care team, with regular weekly shifts and rotas planned in advance. While the role is offered on a flexible zero-hours contract, the work is ongoing and typically provides a stable working pattern with the same client.

What to look forward to:

• Earn up to £16.50 per hour (depending on experience) - You’ll also receive an additional 14.07% holiday pay on every hour worked
• Advanced monthly rotas
• Full specialist training, shadow shifts, and ongoing support from your Care Manager
• Access to the Active Learning Hub – e-learning & in-person development
• Nest pension
• Be recognised through our Active Awards programme
• Refer a friend and earn up to £1,500
• A chance to build a meaningful career with the backing of a leading clinical and business team

Please note we are recruiting a Female Support Worker due to a genuine occupational requirement of the person we support therefore this role is exempt from the Equality Act 2010 Part Schedule 9.

At Active Assistance we want everyone to feel welcome and supported. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences. If you need any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment or interview process, just let us know and we’d be very happy to discuss this with you.