Childrens Services Worker

Salary:11.73 an hour (Inc. London waiting allowance)

Perks:Paid annual leave, pension scheme, career progression, fantastic training opportunities, employee wellbeing support, employee discount portal with all your favourite brands

Contract/Hours:Casual (Flexible to suityourwork/life balance).

Varied Hours pick and choose when you work, around your study, family, retirement, or home life!

I love working as a casual Children's Services Worker I get to build my knowledge, my experience and work with a friendly and funny bunch of people, staff, and childrenalike! It works around my family life and I choose when I work what's not to like?

Closing Date:Midnight on 29th September, ifwe receive a high number of applications, we may have to close earlier than advertised.

Location:Camden & Islington London

AboutActionforChildren

Actionforchildrensupported604,885childrenandtheirfamilies last year. You can be part of the excellentworkwe dowithpathways intoworkingin early years,safeguarding, familieswithdisabledchildren, fostering and adoption,residentialcare, mentalhealth,youngcarers,youngpeople,and parentingsupport.

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. Our community-based services do just that. They 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!

You will make a difference by:

-Providing direct family support in the early help service, through a blend of digital or face to face contact.

-Supporting families within the early help model and managing a case load, where you will be required to record effectively, deliver an intervention, and refer onto other services as required.

-Contributing to and attending Team around the family meetings.

-Support children and their families in different environments and required to be confident in representing the Action for Children Service.

-Supporting children and their families to Thrive with delivering different techniques and methods.

-Tracking children's learning and development and required to communicate with their parents and carers.

You willneed:

-A NVQ Level 3 in Childcare or equivalent.

-Experience of working in a health, early years, or social care setting.

-Experience of working as part of a team or as an individual to deliver a frontline service.

-Confidence to deliver child led and informed interventions

-Experience with child development and planning for individual child's needs.

-Experience of working with children and families.

-Good understanding of safeguarding.

-Ability to communicate effectively with children and their parents/carers.

-Passion and motivation to support children and families to grow, effectively communicate and develop together.

Workinghere is so much more than a job. Whether this is a career change for you or the next step inyourjourney, we'd love to hear from you.

Weworktogetherto reachourvision of safe and happy childhoods. Given this and how having a diverse workforce enriches the lives of thechildrenandyoungpeopleweworkwithwe arecommittedtoDiversityandInclusionand welcomeapplicationsfrom everyone. We value and celebrate thediversityof thosethatworkwithusand as aninclusiveworkplace we want allourcurrent and future staff tofeelable to be themselves in the workplace.

We arecommittedto safer recruitment practices to protectourservice users; therefore, all applicants are expected to understand andcommitmenttosafeguardingbest-practice.

Good luck! We can't wait to hear from you.

Applicationprocess:There are 5 sections for you to complete, Personal Details, CV,SupportingStatement & Information, Equality &Diversity,Submission&Declaration please refer to the JD and PersonSpecificationwhen applying. We want to knowwhatunique qualities you can bring to helpusreachourvision forchildrenand families.

Talent pool:We're sure you've gotwhatit takes to joinourambitiousteam.Ifyou'reunsuccessfulthis time around, we'd like to holdyourdetails in case similar jobs comeupthatyou might be better suited for. Butfeelfree to letusknowifyou'd rather we didn't dothat.

Ifyou needsupport in applying or have any questions call Erika Brinkman, Recruitment Partner, on or email

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