Children’s Waking Night Support Worker

Alder Associates Ltd; Whitstable; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A caring organization is seeking a part-time Children’s Waking Night Support Worker to assist an 8-year-old with complex needs in her home. The role includes providing personal care, ensuring a safe environment, and promoting the child's wellbeing. Candidates should have experience with children, particularly those with cerebral palsy, along with excellent communication skills. The position offers £17-19 per hour and requires working two nights per week, with potential for additional hours. A full clean UK driving licence is essential.

Qualifications

• Fun, enthusiastic and happy personality required.
• Full clean UK driving licence is essential.
• Experience working with children with cerebral palsy is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide support for the child's personal care needs.
• Engage with the child and offer companionship.
• Maintain a safe environment for the child.

Skills

Experience with children

Communication skills

Basic IT skills

Job description

Children’s Waking Night Support Worker

A fantastic opportunity has arisen to work directly with a happy, fun-loving 8‑year‑old girl with complex needs in her family home. The family are looking for a waking night female children’s support worker to promote and support the holistic wellbeing of this bubbly little girl. The successful candidate will be someone who is kind, caring, reliable and supportive.

Our client has cerebral palsy, she is a full‑time wheelchair user, and she is dependent on adults to meet all of her needs. She enjoys her food and is reliant on adults to prepare this and feed her. She requires regular medication and needs full support meeting her personal care needs. She is a happy, sociable and enthusiastic girl who loves chatting, laughing, music, books, accessing the outdoors and bouncing on trampolines. She lives with her parents and siblings in their home which is a non‑smoking environment. Her parents work collaboratively with the care team, are on board with all care and are warm and welcoming.

We are offering excellent rates of pay and are keen to find people to join the team for the long term as continuity of care and building trust is very important for this child and her family. This is a very rewarding role in which you will be making a positive impact in the child and the family’s life.

Hours

Waking Nights: 2 nights per week, 8pm — 8am. (flexibility to work weekends)

Rates of Pay

• Monday – Friday days and nights: £17 per hour
• Weekends: £19 per hour
• Bank holidays: 1.5 times the usual weekday hourly rate
• There may be opportunities for additional hours and overtime.

Person Specification

• Fun, enthusiastic and happy
• Full clean UK driving licence
• Experience of working with children; ideally children with cerebral palsy and/or epilepsy.
• Experience of working in a private family home would be beneficial but an appreciation of the sensitivity, respect and privacy of working within a home environment is essential.
• Willingness to attend all relevant training sessions and meetings as required.
• Willingness to engage and have regular contact with the case manager.
• Open to accompanying the family on holiday both in the UK and abroad.
• Happy to fulfil some client‑related household tasks.
• Ability to offer flexibility with working times and hours to help support with periods of sickness or annual leave within the team.
• Excellent communication skills including a high standard of written and spoken English and proficiency in record keeping.
• Comfortable with basic IT skills.
• Ability to keep calm in a stressful environment and respond well to instructions when given.
• You should enjoy working alongside others as part of a small team, yet also be able to self‑direct tasks and activities with our client.
• An ability to follow care plans and risk assessments as well as routine plans.
• Provide assistance with all of the child’s care and observational requirements including personal care, continence care, dressing/undressing and other care needs.
• Fully support all aspects of the child’s ongoing rehabilitation as set out by the child’s treating therapists and professionals.
• Maintain a safe environment for the child; in the home and in all community‑based activities where applicable.
• Report immediately to the employer, and the case manager any concerns regarding the child’s medical, physical or psychological health, and record this appropriately.
• All matters relating to our child’s situation and family are to be treated as confidential and are not to be disclosed to a third party under any circumstance.
• Adhere to CQC compliance in relation to delivery of care and support.
• Strict no‑smoking policy.

Employment to these roles will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references. If you have the qualifications, experience and commitment we are looking for, please apply with your CV and covering letter in the first instance. You will be contacted and invited for interview after successful shortlisting.

*This is an Equal Opportunities Employer, however due to the nature of the position, this post is exempt under the Equality Act 2010 Part 1 Schedule 9. In this instance there is a Genuine Occupational Requirement to recruit a female.

Job Type: Part‑time

Application question(s)

• How many years of complex care experience do you have?
• Do you drive?
• Do you have a valid DBS?

Work Location: In person