Assistant Residential Worker

Role: Assistant Residential Worker

Salary: 21,000 pro rata

Perks: Annual leave of 29 days, plus public holidays,flexiblematernity, adoption and paternity packages, annual staff awards, up to 7% employer contribution pension scheme, employee discount portal with all your favourite brands, check out more on our career's portal.

Contract/Hours: Fixed term contract 9 months, part time 20 hours per week (full time hours are also available) flexibility with working days, shift on a rota basis,

Location: Falkirk, Scotland

About Us

At Action for Children, we believe that every child should have a safe and happy childhood.Last year, we helped more than 600,000 children and families across the UK. We work to ensure their voices are heard and we campaign to bring lasting change to their lives.

The role

Tayavalla is a short breaks service based in Camelon, Falkirk offering residential short breaks to children and young people with complex health care needs, learning and physical disabilities. We encourage inclusion, ensuring that the children and young people are part of the wider community, through outings and activities we aim to provide a fun and stimulating environment for all our young people.

You will make a difference by:

• Supportingchildren to achieve positive outcomes for their
• Supportingwith medical needs or support during the night if needed for the young
• Providing a safe environment for them to enjoy time with their
• Giving families the break they need to continue supporting their children.
• Assisting the children in all aspects of their care and supporting their health and wellbeing.

You will need:

• Ideally, a HNC and SVQ 3 in a social care discipline, or a qualification in social care, nursing, education, which would meet the SSSC registration requirements.
• Applications from candidates with only a HNC qualification will be considered as the opportunity to undertake SVQ studies will exist.
• Experience of working with disabled young people.
• The ability to use MS Office to record case notes.
• Excellent communication
• Safeguarding
• A positive approach, providing a fun environment for all the children in our care.

The way we work

We work to make sure every child and young person has the love, support and opportunity they need to reach their potential. If you share the same vision, we want you to join our team. Have a look at our behaviours and values to understand more about the way we work here .

Working here is so much more than a job. It's an investment of time to truly make a difference to the lives of vulnerable children, young people, and families across the UK.

We work together to reach our vision of safe and happy childhoods. Given this and our ongoing commitment to Diversity and Inclusion, we encourage applications from everyone.

We value and celebrate the diversity of those that work with us and as an inclusive workplace we want all our current and future staff to feel able to be themselves in the workplace.

If you're interested in finding out more, click apply and visit our careers portal for more information.

If, for any reason, you need support with your application, please contact Jessica Jarvis email who will be happy to give you any support you require.

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