Child Resource Worker Zero Hours
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Children's Support Workers
Location - Homebased with travel required across West Midlands, Walsall, Birmingham, West Bromwich, Dudley, Cannock and Rugley.
Hours - Zero hours, including weekdays, evenings, weekends and during school holidays.
Salary - £12.77 per hour plus 15% holiday pay
We are the UK’s largest specialist charity provider of fostering. Our core work involves providing high quality and well supported fostering families for children and young people in the care of local authorities.
As a ‘not for profit’ organisation, TACT puts the needs of our children and carers first and look to appoint individuals who are as passionate about fostering as we are. TACT invests all surplus income into staff, carers, and child development. This means that we have been able to establish expert in-house support services such as our TACT Health and Education Services and create TACT Connect, our ground-breaking scheme for care experienced young people and adults. New staff and workers will join us as we embark on a journey to become a wholly trauma-informed organisation with the aim of increasing our effectiveness and improving outcomes for the children and young people in our care.
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. You can review our values here.
The ideal candidate will already have substantial experience in working with children and young people. A good understanding of child development and managing challenging behaviours will be essential. Within this role the individual would be expected to participate in planning yearly events for children and young people and coordinate final year awards for children, day trips and undertake individual 1 to 1 direct work with children, be creative in engaging with children and young people and willing to travel around the West Midlands County and beyond to support carers to maintain foster home stability. Wiliness to stay away from home on occasions to support foster and birth children to attend residential and other activities.
The TACT Children's Support Worker role requires flexibility regarding hours and days of work - this is not a full time time role. The hours are occasional, inconsistent and irregular depending on the needs of the foster children and foster families. This includes evenings, weekends, bank holidays and during school holidays.
TACT's Children's Support Workers provide essential service as part of the team, working in close partnership with parents, carers, children, young people, local authorities and their social workers. Child Support Workers are a big part of the organised activities of our families and the role provides post holders with varied and rewarding duties. The nature of the role means our Child Support Workers have the maximum opportunity for flexible working - allowing you to undertake meaningful work scheduled around your own personal circumstances.
Please see the Job Description and Information Pack for more details.
An enhanced DBS clearance is required for this role, which TACT will undertake on your behalf.
Closing: Midnight Sunday 8th September 2024
Interviews: Wednesday 18th September 2024 (via Microsoft teams)
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.
TACT does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
TACT reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment