About the Role
Base Salary: £26,403 – £26,824 per annum plus weekend working and overtime enhanced pay, excellent pension and annual leave entitlement.
Working Pattern: Full time – 37 hours per week.
Contract: Permanent.
Location: Worthing.
Shift pattern: 9:30 pm – 7:30 am, working alternate weekends with a rolling rota.
As a Night Childcare Worker, you will ensure that all children’s and young people’s physical and emotional night care needs are met. This includes managing challenging behaviour, providing emotional support when needed, supporting children in their curfew and ensuring a safe return if out in the community. The support given enables our children and young people to maintain and improve their skills and daily lives in line with individual care plans. You will also be responsible for report writing, nightly checks and household chores when required.
Our ideal candidate will be caring, empathic and resilient. Working closely with many other professionals you will help to provide high quality care in a homely and caring environment.
Experience and Skills
- Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare or equivalent. If you do not have this, the service will support you to complete the qualification; you must achieve it within two years of appointment as it is a statutory requirement.
- Sound communication and interpersonal skills to a range of children and families.
- Ability to promote and encourage a multi‑agency approach to support the child.
- Ability to use initiative to resolve problems within given parameters.
- Ability to work under pressure and prioritise work.
- Ability to work as part of a team around a child.
- Good standard of literacy, e.g. ability to write reports around individuals and significant incidents.
- Knowledge of how to support children who have experienced trauma, harm or abuse (desirable).
Rewards and Benefits
As an employer we recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive and dynamic working environment where employees can achieve their full potential, maintain a healthy work‑life balance and are rewarded for the work they do.
- An excellent local government pension scheme
- Generous holiday entitlement
- Access to a wide selection of retail discounts and savings such as groceries, shopping, travel and more through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform
- A range of commuting and business travel discount and initiatives
- Maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
- Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Financial wellbeing support including access to educational tools and webinars, loans or debt consolidation options and savings scheme
- Training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
Additional Information
This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check, five years referencing and an occupational health check. A full employment history will be requested and covered for this role.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Equity, inclusion and accessibility is very important to West Sussex County Council. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, as this helps us build a diverse and talented workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We ensure our approach to recruitment is flexible and supportive to enable all applicants to be at their best and to ensure they have the best possible chance of success.
Guaranteed Interview Scheme
We operate a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants that have a disability, are a veteran or are a care leaver. More information can be found on our application help page.
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