Residential Childcare Worker

Randstad Care ,
Dundee, City of Dundee
Contract Type: Contract
Salary: £13.5 per hour

Overview

Are you a seasoned residential child support worker? Interested in working with residential children's homes and schools? If the answer is yes, then read on Child Support worker roles available in Dundee supporting the local authority across various services and other charitable organizations. Choose your own schedule, work as often as you like based on your availability Make a real difference to the lives of young people, supporting them to have a safe and fulfilled childhood What can Randstad offer you? - Competitive rates - Keep your skills sharp working across multiple services - Flexible working schedule - Opportunity for consistent placement - Unlimited friend referral bonuses - Immediate start - Extensive training in industry standard courses supported by online learning - Help with SSSC registration - Employee discount app - Support from within the team and a dedicated Randstad consultant A successful child support worker will be responsible for: - Working effectively as part of a team of child support workers - Providing 24 hours care to a vulnerable young people - supporting service users with early trauma and emotional behavioural difficulties - Taking service users out into the community and to school each day - Ensuring professional boundaries are in place - Maintaining professional manner and working to National Care Standards - Working to a flexible schedule, including night shifts, weekends and bank holidays and Christmas period To be successful in your application, you will: - Have previous experience working in a residential setting with young people - Have flexibility in the roles undertaken - Have strong communication skills - Register under the PVG scheme - Full driving licence - Obtained, or working towards SVQ level 3 in Health and Social Care, or equivalent desirable If this sounds like the position for you, don't delay Apply now and one of our team may call you for an informal chat to take your application to the next stage. Alternatively, if you would like some more information give Rebecca Prentice a call on for a confidential chat or email Not the role for you? We are always looking for talented residential support workers across Scotland, email Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone. Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.