Children's Worker - Part Time

Overview

As a Children’s Worker, you will support children and young people with a range of complex needs, helping to create safe, positive and inclusive experiences. Working as part of a supportive team, you will provide consistent, high-quality care and help ensure weekends are structured, engaging and reassuring for the children we support.

This is a weekend-only role, with shifts worked on Saturdays and Sundays.

• Support children and young people with complex physical and psychological needs
• Provide high standards of personal care, ensuring dignity, comfort and safety
• Plan and deliver activities that reflect individual interests, needs and aspirations
• Support physical health needs, including medication and agreed health interventions
• Act as a Keyworker for identified children and contribute to care planning and reviews
• Follow behaviour support strategies and respond flexibly to children’s needs
• Work closely with families, carers and other professionals
• Maintain clear, accurate records and contribute to service development

You will have a genuine interest in working with children and young people with disabilities and feel confident supporting a range of needs, including behaviour that may be challenging. You may already hold an SVQ Level 3 in Social Services Children and Young People and HNC level, or be willing to work towards these qualifications. You will be caring, reflective and reliable, with the ability to communicate effectively and work positively as part of a team.

This role requires membership of the PVG Scheme.

• Weekend-only working, ideal alongside other commitments
• A rewarding opportunity supporting children and young people to thrive
• A supportive team environment with regular supervision
• Training and development, including support to gain relevant qualifications

If you are looking for a weekend-only Children’s Worker role where you can make a real difference, we would love to hear from you. Get in touch today to take the next step.

We offer a range of benefits that you would expect from an organisation that supports others. This includes access to exclusive retail and leisure discounts through our rewards scheme and the Blue Light Discount card, a contributory pension plan, death in service benefit, enhanced family friendly policies, a health cash plan, and a care concierge service.

We also support training and development, including contribution to professional membership fees, to help you learn, grow and develop in ways that are right for you.

Cross Reach has been at the forefront of high quality social care for over 150 years, providing loving care to people of all ages and supporting them to live life to the full whatever their circumstances. Today we are one of the largest social care providers in Scotland, with experience across a broad range of services. We are part of the Church of Scotland and aim to provide social care services in Christ’s name to further the caring work of the Church to people in challenging circumstances.

As we work in Christ’s name, this role requires you to have a Christian faith and to work within and uphold our Christian Ethos. This is an Occupational Requirement under Part 1 of Schedule 9 to the Equality Act 2010. The post requires membership of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme and registration with the SSSC; you must meet the standards and criteria for registration.

We check entitlement to work in the UK for all prospective employees. We are committed to attracting, retaining, and developing a diverse and talented team in an inclusive environment.

For any queries regarding this role or our recruitment process, please contact the Recruitment team. We reserve the right to close this advert prior to the closing date; please submit your application early.

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