Details:
- Salary: £18,000 - 25,000 - Annum
- Job Type: Permanent
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Annum
- Location: Dunkeld Perth & Kinross
- Date: 1 week ago
Description:
Do you have a passion for changing young lives?
Looking to progress your career within an established organisation?
If the answer is yes, then we need your skills!
Child Support worker roles available in Dunkeld within a residential service supporting young people with emotional behavioural difficulties and autism. With a salary of £18,000-£25,000(DOE) plus sleepover allowances, based on a 40 hour working week. The service supports young people ages 8-18 years old with emotional and social difficulties to continue their education.
What can Randstad offer you?
- Competitive rates
- Great service with therapy animals on site
- Close knit team with flexible rotas
- Excellent career progressions; the service is keen to promote from within
- Opportunity for overtime in other services
- 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
- Providing 24 hours care to a vulnerable young people
- supporting 4 service users in rural cottage
- 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 number removed) for a confidential chat or email
Not the role for you?
We are always looking for talented residential support workers across Scotland, email
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.
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