Child Resource Worker Zero Hours in Christchurch

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Role - Zero Hours Children's Resource Worker

Hours - Variable and inconsistent including evenings and weekends

Salary - £12.77 per hour / time and a half on a Saturday and double time on a Sunday. Plus 15% Holiday Pay.

Location - Applicant must be based within Portsmouth, Southampton or Winchester area to be able to cover carers and children support within Hampshire and Dorset.

TACT South Coast are looking for a children's resource worker to collaborate with them to support foster children and carers within Hampshire and Dorset.

The ideal Children's Resource Worker will already have some experience in engagement and participation with vulnerable children, young people, care experienced children or have similar experience in child-facing settings. Activities would include completing one-on-one work with children and young people, taking them to activities, and completing emotional literacy work. A high level of flexibility is required to cover weekends, evenings and bank holidays. Occasionally, you may be required to support with overnight residentials and night support within the foster home.

Car driver and owning a car is essential. There will be opportunities for training and development for this role, as new workers join us at our organisation-wide journey to become a fully trauma-informed organisation. The successful candidate will undertake essential duties that will impact positively on the long-term outcomes for the young people and children in our care. This role is an essential part of the wider team, working in close partnership with parents, carers, young people, local authorities and their social workers.

As a Zero Hours worker with TACT, you will be a part of our amazing team of professionals working with our organisational values at the heart of their everyday practice.

Key duties and abilities for our Children's Resource Worker will include:

• Supporting interventions and activities to ensure stable placement arrangements
• Ability to transport children and young people to events, appointments and meetings (mileage reimbursed)
• Occasional participation in virtual and face-to-face events and occasional residential meet-ups
• Ability to attend and assist with organising events and activities
• Understanding and maintaining knowledge of safeguarding and child protection policies and procedures
• Use of IT for email and communication
• Willingness to work flexibly, according to deadlines and needs of our families

An enhanced DBS clearance is required for this role, which TACT will undertake on your behalf.

Safeguarding is everyone's business and TACT believe that only the people with the right skills and values should work in social work. As part of TACT's commitment to safeguarding, we properly examine the skills, experience, qualifications and values of potential staff in relation to our work with vulnerable young children. We use rigorous and consistent recruitment approaches to help safeguard TACT's young people. All our staff are expected to work in line with TACT's safeguarding policies.