Residential Children's support worker - GBP 14 - GBP21 per hour

Randstad Care; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Randstad Care is seeking experienced support workers to join their Specialist Support Worker Team in Shrewsbury. Candidates should have a passion for helping vulnerable children and young people, with skills in communication, de-escalation, and maintaining professional boundaries. The role offers competitive hourly pay rates and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Good pay rates

Rolling rota

Support from local specialist team

Ongoing training opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience working with vulnerable children and young people.
• Ability to work in challenging situations and maintain professional boundaries.
• Confidence in decision-making and incident reporting.

Responsibilities

• Support children and young people in a residential setting.
• Use de-escalation techniques to ensure safety.
• Maintain accurate daily records and incident reports.

Skills

Communication

Judgement

De-escalation Techniques

Creativity

Job description

Are you an experienced support worker or senior support worker?

Are you passionate about supporting the most vulnerable children and young people in our community?

Come and join the Randstad Specialist Support Worker Team!

Location: Shrewsbury

Pay rates: Day-GBP14 to GBP19.70 Nights-GBP15-GBP21

By joining one of our specialist teams, you will enjoy a number of benefits:

• Good pay rates
• a rolling rota
• support from your Randstad local specialist team
• an opportunity to use your specialist experience and skills and develop other
• access to ongoing training

You will be required to:

• supporting children and young people in a residential setting
• confidence to work with colleagues at times of heightened behaviours to de-escalate situations
• experience of using de-escalation techniques to keep children and young people safe
• experience making decisions and taking action in challenging situations
• an understanding of detailed and accurate daily record keeping, incident reporting
• be creative when engaging and establishing trust with children and young people
• demonstrate sound communication and judgement
• clarity over protecting personal and professional boundaries at all times

If you are interested and want to know more about the roles and have the right skills and experience, then please apply today. Once you have applied, you will receive a call and an email from one of our dedicated consultants.

Call and ask for Sailalitha.

Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.

Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.