Children's Support Worker

1 month ago


Lancaster, United Kingdom Prospero health and social care liverpool Full time

**Children’s Support Worker Role**

**Job Purpose**

For this role you will be working in the **Lancaster **area as a children’s support worker. You will be required to support children with a diverse range of needs, including mental health needs, autism, ADHD, learning disabilities, physical disabilities, acquired brain injuries. As a support worker you will find yourself working in a variety of settings, including people’s own homes, in health and social care settings such as supported living services or care homes, and out in the community.

**Job Responsibilities include but are not limited to**:

- Looking after and taking care of vulnerable difficult children, with different types of mental health issues.
- Assisting with the completion of care plans, risk assessments, reviews, incident & accidents reporting.
- Providing physical and emotional support which may include helping with household tasks and personal care.
- Contribute to the effective implementation of individual programmes by supporting learning, independence and experiences.
- Manage the wellbeing and behavior’s ensuring significant behavioural or physical occurrences are addressed and managed accordingly
- Dealing with a range of mental health issues and supporting the children to provide support + help at all times.
- Building relationships with the children and provide care + support for the Children.
- Support routines, from waking up + being in the house routine to activities outside.
- Maintain professional relationships with clients, family and external healthcare professionals and adhere to company policies and procedures

**Working Hours**:

- 8am-8pm
- 8pm-8am
- 8am-11pm and attached sleep in

**What you require**:

- Great problem-solving skills and the ability to adapt and act accordingly to situations.
- A high level of patience and emotional resilience.
- A non-judgemental attitude regardless of a person’s needs.
- The ability to remain calm under pressure and when dealing with challenging situations.
- Experience of working with children in the past in a similar setting.
- The ability to keep up with changing standards and codes of conduct in the social care sector.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience as a child support worker, working with venerable and children with a variety of mental health issues
- DBS check and all required checks as well as clean criminal record.
- Preferable to be able to drive as locations can be spread out.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent, Temporary contract, Zero hours contract

**Salary**: £12.00-£15.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Referral programme

Schedule:

- 12 hour shift
- Day shift
- Night shift
- Overtime
- Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Lancaster: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: CSW.LANA.JC



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