Child Support Worker

Are you looking for your next challenge as a child support worker?

Love being outdoors and wish you could make this part of your work?

If the answer is yes, then we need you!

Child Support worker roles available with an independent school in Perthshire. This is an excellent opportunity to join a fantastic school expanding its services this spring.. A successful child support worker will support children and young people ages 8-21 with a range of complex needs, challenging behaviour and autism.

What can Randstad offer you?

- Competitive rates

- Great service with community gardens on site

- Close knit team with flexible rotas

- Excellent career progressions; the service is keen to promote from within

- Unlimited friend referral bonuses

- Immediate start

- Extensive training in industry standard courses supported by online learning

- Help with SSSC registration

- Employee discount app

- Support from within the team and a dedicated Randstad consultant

A successful child support worker will be responsible for:

- Working effectively as part of a team of child support workers

- Supporting children with a variety of complex learning disabilities, challenging behaviour and autism

- Providing 24 hours care to a vulnerable young people

- Working as a team to support up to 36 young people

- Taking service users out into the community and to school each day

- Ensuring professional boundaries are in place

- Maintaining professional manner and working to National Care Standards

- Working to a flexible schedule, including night shifts, weekends and bank holidays and Christmas period

To be successful in your application, you will:

- Have previous experience working in a residential setting with young people

- Have flexibility in the roles undertaken

- Have strong communication skills

- Register under the PVG scheme

- Full driving licence

- Obtained, or working towards SVQ level 3 in Health and Social Care, or equivalent desirable

If this sounds like the position for you, don't delay!

Apply now and one of our team may call you for an informal chat to take your application to the next stage. Alternatively, if you would like some more information give Rebecca Prentice a call on [phone removed] for a confidential chat

Not the role for you?

We are always looking for talented residential support workers across Scotland check out our website!

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.

experience

Children services

skills

be able to manage challenging situations,be person centred,caring,critical thinking,emotional intelligence,empathy,handling medication