Working with children and young adults is an extremely rewarding role. Our children and young adults support workers will work with children from age 13+, providing support to meet their needs. Full induction and training is provided.
Our support workers in this role support children and young people with complex needs, ensuring children’s needs are met.
To support children and young adults with complex needs based in Carlisle and create a family nurturing environment for children and young people. You’ll be part of a support team ensuring children’s day to day needs are met, ensuring things run smoothly and children feel safe, supported, and well cared for. This will involve ensuring all personal care needs are met, medication support, emotional and behavioural support, health care needs met, supporting educational needs and social needs.
The registered manager – Sharon Baxter
You will be required to care for children with a variety of needs such as learning disabilities, physical disabilities, visual impairment, hearing impairment, global development delay, challenging behaviour, ADHD, Autism, behavioural, emotional, and social difficulties, and others. The aim of this role is to ensure children and young people are kept safe and cared for in a nurturing environment that supports their personal, emotional, and social development and ensures all their health care needs are always met.
As a Support worker you must be sensitive and responsive to the race, culture, religion, age, disability, gender, and sexuality of the child who is receiving care and their representatives.
You will provide care according to the child’s specific diagnosis and needs. Your duties may include:
You will also be required to perform tasks such as:
An enhanced disclosure with the Criminal Records Bureau.
Driving Licence (preferred)
Interested in this role?
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