Children's Support Worker

Active Care Group; Falmouth (IN); On-site; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

Join Active Care Group as a Children's Support Worker and make a rewarding difference in the life of an 11-year-old boy with complex health needs. This part-time role focuses on caring during evenings and weekends, providing essential support in a loving family environment. You will receive full training and ongoing support while having the flexibility to manage your schedule.

Benefits

Full specialist training

Flexible zero hours contract

Accrued holiday pay

Nest Personal Pension account

Active Awards programme

Refer a Friend Scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in caring for children with complex health needs is advantageous.
• Ability to support children with learning disabilities, PEG, and epilepsy.

Responsibilities

• Support a child with complex health needs in their family home.
• Assist with daily tasks while providing companionship and therapeutic activities.

Skills

Passion for working with children

Kind and caring nature

Flexibility

Reliability

Good communication skills

Job description

Are you looking for a part time role, for evenings (4.15pm-8.15pm) and weekends?

Would you love a rewarding role, supporting a child with complex health needs in his 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 with our brand new young client in Redruth.

Meet The Client

I am a 11 year old boy. I had a stroke and birth and because of this I have Global Developmental Delay and right sided hemiplegia - this means my right side is weaker than my left. I have a Gastrostomy insitu and I have all my feeds and medication through his. Due to my stroke at birth we think the wiring is not quite right and have a tendency to hurt myself. I wear a splint to stop me from doing this but I need constant support. I am looking for someone to come and look after me so my mum and dad can do their day to day tasks, someone who likes to read stories and sing songs as I enjoy this.

When You'll Be Working

• We have evenings and weekends available
• Weekday Evenings (4.15pm-8.15pm)
• Weekends - Saturdays and Sundays available (1pm-8pm)
  
  

What You'll Be Doing

This role is to support our brand new young client with complex health needs in his family home, during the evenings / weekends. Our clients needs include learning disabilities, PEG, epilepsy and he is non-verbal.

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
• Good communication skills
  
  

What To Look Forward To

• up to £13.25 per hour (depending on experience)
• Full specialist training, shadow shifts, and ongoing support from the Clinical 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 Group
  
  

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.