Childrens Services Worker

6 months ago

London, United Kingdom Action for Children Full time

**Role: Children's Services Worker**

**Salary**:£11.74 an hour (Inc. London waiting allowance)

**Location**:Camden & Islington London

**Benefits**:

- **Paid annual leave.**:

- **Gain professional qualifications with excellent training, and development opportunities.**:

- **Pension scheme**:

- **Employee wellbeing support**:

- **Employee discount portal with all your favourite brands**:

- **Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 discounts from national retailers.**

**Why Action for Children?**

Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It's the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives.

Action for Children does what's right, does what's needed and does what works for children in the UK. Every year, our team changes the lives of thousands of children.

**A bit about the role**

Action for Children Short break services in Islington and Camden support disabled young people in their own homes or in their local community.

We support children to make and meet friends, connect with their communities, and enjoy new opportunities and experiences, and encourage children to be ambitious about what they want to do and work with them to make their wishes a reality. The approach is about being inclusive, flexible and, above all, fun.

As a Children's Services Worker, you will be responsible for providing support to children, young people, and families by agreeing and directly delivering interventions, with appropriate direction, which enable positive and agreed outcomes to be achieved, in accordance with organisational policies, procedures and regulatory requirements.

We are seeking experienced and enthusiastic casual Children Services Workers to join our established and dedicated team at Islington Children's Centre. If this sounds of interest, please read on for more information

**How you'll help to create brighter futures**
- Providing direct family support in the early help service, through a blend of digital or face to face contact.
- Managing a case load, record effectively, deliver an intervention, refer and Support families onto other services as required.
- Contributing to and attending family meetings.
- Support children and their families in different environments
- Support children and their families to thrive by delivering different techniques and methods.
- Tracking children's learning and development and communicate with their parents and carers.

**Let's talk about you.**
- NVQ Level 2 in Childcare or Equivalent.
- Experience of working as part of a team or as an individual
- Experience with child development and planning for individual child's needs.
- Understand how to engage with young people and their parents/carers.
- Good understanding of safeguarding.
- Passion and motivation to support children and families to grow, effectively communicate and develop together.

**Diversity, equality and inclusion**

Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles.

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