Care Support Worker | Children|s Home

Job description
Care Support Worker – Sponsorship not available
Children’s Home
Much Hadham, Hertfordshire
£25,066 - £26,632 (based on full time hours, part time applications are also welcome)

If you are thinking about a new career for the New Year and would like to join one of Hertfordshire’s biggest employers, get in touch with us!

We can offer:
• Full or part time working pattern (earlies, 7am – 2:30pm and lates, 2:15pm – +:45pm)
• 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays
• 20% uplift on your salary for working overtime on a Saturday Sunday
• Automatic enrolment onto the Level 3 in Residential Childcare qualification (fully funded by St Elizabeth’s)
• Discounts via “Blue Light Card”
• Fully paid for DBS
• Free on-site parking
• Discounted gym membership
• Confidential Employee Assistance Programme
• Onsite training and assessment team delivering a variety of learning and development opportunities.
• Access to contributory pension scheme
• Staff transport service with pick-up and drop-off points in Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford, Sawbridgeworth and Stansted Abbotts

What you’ll be doing:
• Supporting children and young people between the ages of 5 – 1+ years with their care and education.
• Enabling our learners to participate in activities and have fun outside of school hours including bowling, swimming, cinema trips, sports, baking and sensory groups both on and offsite.
• Recording, supporting and celebrating personal achievements and milestones, keeping all documentation up to date
• Developing skills according to person centred plans supporting with personal care and medication where needed

Next steps
All applications should be made on our website. All offers are conditional and subject to receipt of satisfactory pre-employment checks and references including an enhanced DBS check. Please note we are not on a public transport route. Salary is dependent on the role, qualifications and experience.

Applications will be reviewed and interviews scheduled on a rolling basis; therefore, we recommend that you apply sooner rather than later. We reserve the right to close this advert if we receive sufficient applications ahead of the deadline.

If you require reasonable adjustments at application or interview stage, please do let us know as soon as possible.

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion
At St Elizabeth’s we embrace diversity and aspire to create a diverse and inclusive working culture. We are proud to be recognised as an Investor in People and to hold Disability Confident status. We are an equal opportunities employer welcoming all applications from across the community.

Safeguarding
St Elizabeth’s Centre is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, vulnerable adults and young people. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure through the Disclosure and Barring Service. Some of our positions involve regulated activity relevant to vulnerable children, adults and young people. It is a criminal offence for people who are barred from working in regulated activity to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with that particular group. Our vacancies are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1+74.

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