Role: Children's Services Worker
Salary: £13.73 an hour (inc. Inner London allowance)
Contract/Hours: Casual (You will be required to work a Minimum of 2 Saturdays a month and 3 days a week during the school holidays).
With a casual post as a Childrens Services Worker, there is flexibility to choose when you work, around your study, family, retirement, or home life!
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.
Vulnerable children in the UK need your help.
Wherever you work in the Action for Children family, you'll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable children in the UK.
Last year, we helped more than 688,000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to national campaigning, we are focused on making sure every child has a safe and happy childhood, and the foundations they need to thrive.
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.
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. We 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.
Good to know.
Application Process
Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
There are five sections to complete: Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration.
Talent Pool
We know talent when we see it. But sometimes we find the right person but not for the right job. We'd love to keep your details for when the right job comes up. Let us know if you'd rather we didn't.
Contact: Sarah Manderfield or email us at [email protected] quoting reference 11393
Diversity, equality and inclusion
At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace.
We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.
Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles.
Don't meet every single requirement?
If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.
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Job Description
See below for further information about working with us:
Action for Children Employee Benefits
AfC Commitment Statement
Action for Children - Driven by Love
Make a Difference - A Career in Residential Services
