Children Support Worker for Transitional Services

Do you want to enable children and young people who have been taken into care to have the best possible start in life? Are you enthusiastic, resilient, and driven to enrich and make a difference in the lives of young people?

Vetro Social Care is recruiting Children's Support Workers for Transitional Services. You will be working 2:1 or 1:1 with children in their homes.

Overview:

Title: Children's Support Worker

Pay: £14.25 - £28.48 inclusive of holiday pay

Location - Pontypool

Time : 8pm - 8am Waking nights and 8am - 8pm Day shifts

Benefits:

• Excellent Rates of pay, weekly pay, and no payroll charges
• Free food while on shift
• Variety of work in different social care and healthcare settings
• Vetro Mobile Booking App for communicating shift availability
• Support from a specialist consultant
• Free online training and subsidised practical training (TMVA,PMVA,PBM)
• Agency worker of the month prize £50
• Entry into our Golden Ticket draw to win £500 every quarter
• 24-hour registration - register from the comfort of your own home
• Holiday pay- paid weekly or accumulated in a holiday pot
• Vetro contributed pension

What you’ll be doing as a Childrens Worker:

• To support the children and young people in all day to day activities and interests
• To promote the young persons independence and wellbeing
• To protect the children and young people from any risks to their health and welfare
• To provide emotional and practical support to the young people within your home.
• To ensure the safety of young people by maintaining an up-to-date knowledge of care plans and guidelines
• To support, overcome and learn to minimise incidents when behaviour can be challenging.

What you’ll need to have to be a successful Childrens Support Worker

• A desire to create positive outcomes for vulnerable children and young people
• Empathetic, caring and resilient nature
• At least 6 months experience of working with children or within a similar Social Care setting
• Hold a current Enhanced DBS on the update service or are willing to obtain one
• The right to work in the UK

Do you want to make a real, measurable difference in the lives of young people? If this sounds like your dream role, we would love to hear from you.

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

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