Community Short Breaks Worker

at  Action for Children

COMMUNITY SHORT BREAKS WORKER

Salary: £12.00 per 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.
Benefits: Paid annual leave, professional qualifications, excellent training and development opportunities, pension scheme, employee wellbeing support, employee discount portal with your favourite brands.

LET’S TALK ABOUT YOU

We are looking for someone who shares our passion for creating brighter futures. You’ll contribute to our vision of ensuring safe and happy childhoods. To achieve that real change to vulnerable children, young people and families, there’ll be certain qualities that you will have:

• 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.

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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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.
Our service 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).
“I love working as a casual Community Short Breaks Worker – I get to build my knowledge, my experience and work with a friendly and funny bunch of people, staff and young people alike! It works around my family life and I choose when I work – what’s not to like?”