Childrens Services Workers - Outreach Services
Permanent, Full-Time, Working 37 hours a week on a rota basis between 7am and 10pm
Salary Circa: £17,400 per annum
Cambridge
How we work?
Action for Children does what's right, does what's needed and does what works for children across the UK. Every year, our team changes the lives of 370,000 children, young people and their families - but for every child who needs help to get help, there's plenty more to do. That's where you come in. We are looking for Childrens Services Workers to join our outreach services team. This is an excellent opportunity if you are looking for that first opportunity in social care as we are willing to train and support suitable candidates.
Outreach Services Cambridgeshire provides support to children and young people either in their home or out in the community across Cambridgeshire, for young people between the ages of 0 to 25, with physical and learning disabilities.
The role?
Our support workers will work with families directly and arrange to take children and young people with disabilities out into the community and support them to access a variety of activities and opportunities, enabling them to increase their independents skills. There may be times where families may need some support within their home and you will work with them to understand how you can best support them.
How you'll make a difference?
- By providing a high quality service to children, young people and their families, based on an assessment of need and is outcomes driven
- By delivering interventions to children, young people or families on a 1:1 basis or in a group setting, with appropriate direction
- By maintaining effective working relationships and channels of communications with colleagues and with children, young people and families and where necessary encourage and promote involvement to achieve positive outcomes
- By being alert to child protection and safeguarding issues and inform appropriate line managers of concerns in line with safeguarding policies and procedures
- By attending and actively participating in relevant multi-agency meetings
- By being responsible for organising achievement of work objectives on a daily basis, including both pre and forward planning
- By retaining accurate and contemporaneous records, using various IT systems to capture case details, outputs and outcomes as necessary
What you'll need?
- Diploma or NVQ Level 3 or willingness to work towards this
- Excellent communication skills
- Be caring and compassionate
- Willing to learn
- Flexibility in working patterns and for the needs of the service
- Experience of working with children/young people/adults with disabilities - desirable but not essential
How we reward you?
- Competitive salary - based on defined job roles and grades.
- Paid holiday allowance- minimum 29 days (pro-rata) plus public/bank holidays
- We support you and welcoming new additions to your family - flexible maternity, adoption and paternity packages
- We have a contribution scheme that matches a maximum of 7% employee and 7% employer contributions which includes a death in service benefit.
Guidant is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
