Residential Children Worker

Are you a passionate and dedicated Residential Children Worker?

Do you strive to make a real difference to the lives of vulnerable children?

If this sounds like you, then we need you!

Residential Children Worker role at Edinburgh

Randstad is working to support a respite service supporting children and their families with complex learning and physical disabilities. This is a rewarding service to work in, taking young people out of their regular routine to relax and enjoy themselves in a safe and nurturing environment.

Part-time and full-time hours are available by booking your own shifts through our app and catching up with your own dedicated consultant. Work at the same service or try out lots of different ones!

What can Randstad offer you?

• Competitive rates
• Established national service
• Opportunity to pick up overtime in other services Randstad supports
• Excellent career progressions; the service is keen to promote from within
• Unlimited friend referral bonuses
• Immediate start
• Extensive training in industry-standard courses supported by online learning
• Help with SSSC registration
• Randstad employee discount app
• Support from within the team and a dedicated Randstad consultant

A successful residential children's worker will be responsible for:

• Providing 24-hour care to vulnerable young people
• Ensure children's health, hygiene, and safety needs are met.
• Manage challenging behaviour with appropriate strategies.
• Administering medication
• Maintaining a professional manner and working to National Care Standards
• Ensuring the safety and welfare of children, reporting abuse or neglect.
• Assisting with personal hygiene, meal preparation, and supervision.
• Supporting educational needs and activities.
• Teaching essential life skills for independent living.

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
• Experience in assisting with educational needs and activities for Children
• Have strong communication skills
• Register under the PVG scheme
• Full driving license (Preferred)
• Obtained, or working towards SVQ level 3 in Health and Social Care, or equivalent, is 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.

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!

Know someone who may be interested? Randstad offers a £300 friend referral scheme!

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.