A Career that's life changing!

Role: Young Person's Worker

Location: Stoke on Trent

Pay: £8.91 per hour DOE

Hours: Permanent, Part time - 10 hours per week

How do Action for Children 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 301,000 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.

At Stoke Aiming High, we provide a wide variety of activities for Children and Young People with disabilities or additional needs up to their 20th birthday who aren't able to go to other community activities in their community without some support.

As a Young Person's Worker, it will be your responsibility to create and provide a safe and fun environment for service users to enjoy social experiences.

How will you make a difference?

By providing personal care and maintaining personal hygiene.
By administering medication.
By providing 1:1 support to service users in community activities.
By ensuring safeguarding practices are in place.
By building strong rapports with Children, Young People and Families.
By supporting parents/carers to have a short break from their caring responsibilities.

What do you need?

NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care or the willingness to work towards one.
Previous experience working with service users with various disabilities.
A Positive and Caring attitude is a
Excellent interpersonal skills.
Ability to work under pressure.
Flexibility to meet the needs of the business
Fun and energetic attitude towards the activity sessions.

What are the benefits?

As an appreciation towards our staff we offer:

An excellent company pension scheme.
Minimum of 29 days Annual Leave (Pro rata for part time staff)
Season ticket travel loans.
Professional development with access to 100's of courses available from the first day.
Discounts at major high street retailers.
Staff recognition.
(And that's just to list a few)

This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference to vulnerable children's lives and to build a fulfilling and meaningful career with a leading UK children's charity. So don't delay, apply today!

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