Community Short Breaks Worker

Role: Community Short Breaks Worker 

Salary: £13.45 an hour

Location: Bury, Lancashire

Contract/Hours: Casual Flexible hours available, choose from evening and weekend hours around your work, studies, family, retirement, or home life.  Additional hours available in school holidays.

Term Time – Thursday (4pm – 8:15pm), Friday (3pm – 9:20pm) & Saturday & Sunday (10am – 5pm). School Holidays: throughout Monday – Friday 2:45pm till 9:30pm. No working Bank Holidays.

Benefits: 

• Paid Leave.
• Gain professional qualifications with excellent training, and development opportunities.
• Pension scheme
• Employee wellbeing support
• Employee discount portal with all your favourite brands
• Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 discounts from national retailers.

At Action for Children, we offer more than just a job. Join us and you’ll be part of a team dedicated to giving children safe and happy childhoods. See how your skills can make a real difference, helping solve the problems children and young people face every day.

A bit about the service:

Action for Children Social Opportunities supports a diverse group of disabled children/young people, delivering fun activities & encouraging friendships, fun & choice in how to spend their time, encouragement to be part of their local communities & supporting parent/carers to have break.

Our community-based venues are in Bury at Elton Centre, Sunnybank Centre (during Term Time) and Bury Athletics Club (during School Holidays).

A bit about the role 

In the role of Community Short Breaks Worker, you'll be delivering fun activities & encouraging friendships, fun & choice in how to spend their time, encouragement to be part of their local communities & supporting parent/carers to have break.

You will support children and young people to participate in activities and encourage and promote their practical life and social skills. As a Community Short Breaks Worker, you'll make a difference by:

How you'll help to create brighter futures

• Working with a diverse group of disabled children and young people and delivering exciting social activities such as baking, arts ‘n' crafts, sports, games and going out in the local community.
• Encouraging children and young people to make friends, enjoy their social time and be part of their local communities, as any other child and young person would.
• Monitoring and assessing individual progress and development through diary sheets and care plans.
• Ensuring that children and young people are nurtured in a safe environment.
• Personal care.

Let's talk about you.

• Experience of working with or spending time with disabled children/young people is an advantage but not a necessity.
• An enthusiasm and passion to make a difference.
• A belief that every child should have the same opportunities in life.
• Innovative ideas for activities and ways to improve.
• NVQ/QCF Level 2 or 3 in Health and Social Care (or equivalent) is desirable but not essential.
• Flexibility to work a variation of shift patterns.

Full training provided free to support you in your role.

Good to know.

Application Process

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

There are five sections to complete: Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration.

Contact: Sarah Manderfield by email at: [email protected] quoting reference number 13503.

Diversity, equality, and inclusion

At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace.

We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.

Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles.

Don't meet every single requirement?

If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.

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