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Wakefield, United Kingdom
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Posted:
13.02.2025
Expiry Date:
30.03.2025
Job Description:
Children's Support Worker
£14 - £18 per hour
Wakefield
Temp
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity as a support worker, helping children within a residential home setting, who may display learning difficulties or challenging behaviour? If you have a passion for providing the highest quality of care, looking for a fulfilling role or to pick up extra hours, this may be the role for you.
Benefits for you as a Support Worker with Randstad:
* Support from within the team and a dedicated Randstad consultant
* Accrued Holiday pay
* Development opportunities, providing ongoing training
* Flexible working hours
* Immediate start
* Weekly pay
* Employee refer-a-friend scheme - Earn an amazing £300 just by referring your friends!
We have a wide range of Support Worker shifts available.
Duties of this Support Worker job:
* You will work effectively as part of a team of experienced support workers
* You will be responsible for providing care to vulnerable children, supporting service users with early trauma and emotional behavioural difficulties
* You will take service users out into the community
* You will ensure professional boundaries are in place
* You will work to a flexible schedule, including night shifts, weekends, and bank holidays
* You will contribute to the effective implementation of individual programmes by supporting learning, independence, and experiences.
* You will manage the well-being and behaviours, ensuring significant behavioural or physical occurrences are addressed and managed accordingly
* You will assist with the completion of care plans, risk assessments, reviews, and incident & accidents reporting
* You will support clients with morning and evening routines
* You will support clients with challenging behaviour and adopt de-escalation techniques
* You will support clients with in-house and external activities
* You will promote strong communication with both clients and the staff team to ensure handovers are accurate and factual
* You will maintain professional relationships with clients, family, and external healthcare professionals
* You will adhere to company policies and procedures
Requirements of this Support Worker job:
* You will have a minimum of 6 months paid children's care experience in the UK in the last 3 years
* You will have the right to work in the UK
* You will possess a good standard of English, both spoken and written, with the ability to communicate effectively
* You will need an enhanced DBS, which you can apply for upon registration
* You will need to provide suitable references to cover the last 3 years of employment
If you're interested in this Care Assistant job, click APPLY NOW and expect to hear from me.
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 has 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.
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