Children’s Relief Support Worker
Salary: £12.74 - £12.95 per hour, depending on qualifications
(regular sleep in duties required, paid at an additional £64.95 per night)
Hours: Bank/Relief hours (including evenings and weekend)
Location: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
About the Role
Looking for flexible work that fits around your lifestyle? As a Relief Support Worker, you can choose shifts that suit your availability while making a real difference in the lives of children and young people in care.
Some young people have experienced significant trauma and need additional, individualised support to help them feel safe, secure and understood. Break’s solo children’s homes provide a nurturing environment where young people receive the dedicated care, attention and therapeutic support they need to thrive.
With patience, empathy and consistency, you’ll be a positive role model, helping young people rebuild their confidence, develop trusting relationships with adults and begin to overcome the challenges they’ve faced. Working alongside a supportive team and Break’s therapeutic services, you’ll help create an environment where every young person feels valued, listened to and encouraged to be themselves.
You’ll support young people to try new experiences, discover their interests, develop their own identity and build the confidence and independence they need to look forward to a brighter future.
You’ll need to complete a Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare within the first 24 months of employment. Break will fully fund your qualification and provide support through its training team.
A full UK driving licence is preferred for this role.
Why Break?
At Break we invest in the future of our staff just as we do for the young people in our services. We strive to provide the highest quality of care, so whether you’re just starting your career in children’s social care or are already qualified, you’ll be supported, recognised and rewarded for your essential part in our vital work.
Benefits
- Free, career-enhancing qualifications
- A referral scheme if you recommend a contact who goes on to be employed by Break in care services. (subject to conditions)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Company funded medical cash plan
- Access to the Blue Light benefits platform enabling you to access discounts across a range of shops, venues and services (your membership fee will be reimbursed)
- Access to multiple Wellbeing initiatives
- The opportunity to influence Break’s strategy and direction through our Staff Consultation Forum
- And more
Additional Information
People are our biggest asset in our organisation. We recognise that the key to providing the highest quality of care is to ensure we have a diverse workforce using their life experiences to give the children and young people a well-rounded right start in life. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.
The first interview will be a Safe Care/ Warner style interview. If successful after the first interview, candidates will then be expected to attend a formal interview.
An enhanced DBS check is required for the role. This will be funded by Break.
To comply with OFSTED requirements, you will be asked to provide details of your full employment history.
We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the application or recruitment process. If there are adjustments you would like to request, please contact contactrecruitment@break-charity.org. We also offer reasonable adjustments in the workplace.
To comply with the Immigration Asylum & Nationality Act 2006 and additional amendments, and UKVI requirements, all prospective employees will be asked to supply evidence of eligibility to work in the UK. We will ask to see and take a copy of an appropriate official document as set out in the UKVI guidelines. Do not send anything now, further information will be sent to you should you be invited to interview.
Equal Opportunities
We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
About Disability Confident Disability Confident is a government scheme. It encourages employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with long term health conditions.
This job is also known as: Support Worker, Youth Worker, Care Worker, Children Support Worker, Children
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