Children's Support Worker - Weekends

Active Care Group; Wealden; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A care service provider seeks a passionate Children's Support Worker to assist a young boy with autism and challenging behaviour during weekends in Hailsham. The role involves community support alongside another worker, offering flexible hours up to £13.50 per hour. Full training and ongoing support are provided, along with various benefits including holiday pay and a pension scheme. This is an opportunity to develop your career in a supportive environment with the promise of consistent work and recognition of outstanding contributions.

Benefits

Flexible zero hours contract

Accrued holiday pay

Nesting Personal Pension account

Access to training and development opportunities

Refer a Friend Scheme

Qualifications

• Experience supporting children with autism and challenging behaviour.
• Ability to work flexible hours including weekends.

Responsibilities

• Support a young client with autism and challenging behaviour in a 2:1 setting.
• Participate in community activities with the client.

Skills

Passion for working with children

Experience with challenging behaviour

Job description

Are you looking for a part time role for weekends?

Do you have previous experience with challenging behaviour?

Would you love a rewarding role, supporting a child with autism and challenging behaviour in the community?

Come and join Active Care in the Home.

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

When you'll be working:

• Term time: Saturdays and Sundays (5 hrs each day) - 10 hrs a week
• Non term time: increasing to 16 hours, and to include weekdays
• 10 hours term time, 16 hours non term time
• Part Time

What you'll be doing:

This role is to support our brand new young client, a 11 year old boy, out in the community. Our client has autism, ADHD, learning disabilities, epilepsy and displays challenging behaviour. You will be working alongside another support worker at all times as all the shifts are 2:1.

Full training, shadow shifts and ongoing support will be provided.

What you'll have:

• Passion for working with children
• Previous experience with challenging behaviour

What to look forward to:

• up to £13.50 per hour (depending on experience)
• Full specialist training, shadow shifts, and ongoing support from the Care Manager provided
• Accrued holiday pay
• Regular consistent work with rolling rotas
• Flexible zero hours contract
• 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 in the Home

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.