Waltham Forest, Greater London Short Breaks Worker (Part time)

Location

Waltham, MA | United States

Job description

About The Role

Employer - KIDS

Working Hours –flexiblehours duringevenings, weekends and school holidays

Location – Walthamstow E17, Leyton E10, Leytonstone E11 and Chingford E4.

Salary – £11.95 per hour, £13.39 including holiday pay

Short Breaks workers / Support workers needed in Walthamstow E17, Leyton E10, Leytonstone E11 and Chingford E4.

The good stuff / benefits:

• Flexible start and end times to provide an ideal balance between work life and private life
• Further opportunities
• Employee benefits portal, including discounts at 100s online high street stores
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) Help’s to deal with personal and professional problems that could be affecting your home life or work life, health and general wellbeing. The confidential employee benefit provides expert advice and compassionate guidance 24/7
• Training - KIDS Virtual College: Provides a huge range of up to date and professional courses for all staff members
• Referral scheme 

Are you a person who really wants to make a difference to people’s lives? If so the role of support worker / playworker might be for you.

We are currently looking for support workers to provide short breaks for disabled children and young people, supporting them to access a variety of activities, promoting independence, inclusion and learning, and engaging positive activities. Whilst working in a person centred way, providing practical and emotional support to the child or young person, to enable them to meet the goals and outcomes identified in their support plan.

Short breaks are on a 1:1 basis in the community and in a child or young person’s home. Our breaks are designed around the child or young person and their interests and hobbies, so during a break you may take a child swimming, to a local park, or perhaps to the shops.

Ad hoc hours available on an as and when basis (mainly evenings, weekends, and school holidays). This is a sessional position offering flexible working hours during evenings, weekends and school holidays.

To learn more about the role, please click here to watch a video.

The hourly rate is £11.95 per hour, £13.39 including holiday pay.

About You

Personal Qualities:

We are looking for caring, enthusiastic individuals to support disabled children and young people on a 1-1 basis in the London Borough of Waltham Forest.

• Experience of working with disabled children is desirable but not essential.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the needs of disabled children and young people and a commitment to safeguarding.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work on your own and use initiative.
• Available to work regular evenings and weekends.
• Further details can be found on the job description.

Our Mission & Strategy

We’re here for children and young people with special education needs and disabilities, young carers and families. We’re on a mission to create a world where all kinds of children and young people have all kinds of opportunities. We create life-changing opportunities by providing a wide range of support. Together, we’ll empower disabled children to stand up for their rights.

Childhood should be a joyful time. But some children and young people living with special educational needs and disabilities are defined by what they cannot do.  That’s wrong.

Every child should have an equal opportunity to play, learn, grow and thrive.

Because when the world says we can’t, kids say we can.

Our strategic plan will enable us to reach 120,000 disabled young people and their families, every year, by 2027. 

We welcome applications from disabled people or people with lived experience of disability. We demonstrate our willingness to make reasonable adjustments to enable disabled candidates/colleagues to access and participate in the recruitment process (for example we make our adverts accessible, and where required/requested, will make application forms available in alternative formats, i.e. large print).  Kids encourages applications from disabled people by offering any disabled person who meets the person specification an interview.

If required, support is provided to applicants to complete an application form. Our in-house Careers team will discuss what support we can provide.  

KIDS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of all those who come into contact with our services. Our colleagues are trained to recognise and respond to safeguarding concerns. We work closely with families and other agencies to take all reasonable steps to minimise the risk of harm to children, young people and adults. 

To fulfil our commitment to those we work with we observe safer recruitment and selection procedures and nurture a safeguarding culture which is open and transparent, where all concerns in relation to our people can be identified and spoken about openly and are dealt with promptly and appropriately. By identifying concerning, problematic or inappropriate behaviour early we aim to minimise the risk of abuse.

Please note KIDS Safer Recruitment procedures will include a DBS check and a Colleague Suitability Declaration where applicable. Within the DBS check there are two Barred Lists. The Children’s Barred List and the Adults’ Barred List. If you are added to a Barred List then it is against the law to work, apply for work or volunteer in Regulated Activity with children and/or adults. Therefore, we ask you not to progress with your application. 

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

We work to ensure that all of the Kids team:

• are committed to equality of opportunity, treatment and behaviour
• have equal access to employment, promotion and development
• have equal access to services
• have their needs considered as we develop services

This means that equality and human rights are:

• embedded in our business planning
• fully considered within our structures
• part of the personal development of all staff

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