- Pay Rate:
£11.81 per hour PAYE
- Hours per Week:
37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 4 months
- NOTTINGHAM
Temporary Contact Support Worker - Contact Support Service
Reference no: Nottinghamshire 0007 F622 / 1
Pay rate: £11.81 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 4 months
City: NOTTINGHAM
Office based with requirement to work from different venues across the County
Enhanced DBS required for this role
Full UK Driving Licence and vehicle
A Contact Support Worker is required to facilitate formal contact between children, young people aged 0-17 and their families including arranging, supervising and recording contact sessions. To record information accurately and identify and report any safeguarding concerns. The post-holder may occasionally be required to attend court to contribute evidence as part of care proceedings. There is a requirement to work from different venues across the County and therefore a full driving license and a suitable vehicle is required. Core working hours are 8.30am to 7.00pm with occasional working at weekends.
Key responsibilities:
- Respond to requests to arrange or make changes to contact sessions quickly and efficiently.
- Organise transport/contact arrangements and undertake any routine communication/liaison tasks with service users, families and other professionals.
- Collect and escort children to and from a range of venues that will include foster carers, school, children’s centres, private nurseries, crèche and any other location, where necessary.
- Supervise contact arrangements between parents/carers and children/young people.
- Ensure that appropriate boundaries are established and maintained during contact, between the child, young person and family members, identifying where there has been any breach of the Contact Agreement.
- Record contact notes promptly, accurately and in accordance with relevant policies, procedure and guidance. To immediately inform the Line Manager of significant events arising before, during or after contact including the reporting of any safeguarding concerns.
- Attend and actively contribute to professional meetings, relating to children and young people.
- Participate in the cleaning of play equipment and maintenance of the environment.
- Provide appropriate guidance, advice and support to parents/carers, as required.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Qualifications:
- GCSE passes at grade C or above in English and Maths.
- QCF – Level 3 (previously NVQ Level 3) Social Care or Child Care or an equivalent qualification - may provide evidence of ‘working towards’ the qualification.
Experience:
- Minimum of one year’s experience of working with children and/or young people and ideally within a public sector organisation.
Knowledge:
- A thorough understanding of safeguarding and child protection issues and an ability to provide opinions and/or recognise any concerns which require the attention of the Social Worker/Team Manager.
- An understanding of how to record information accurately and produce reports, as required.
- An understanding of team work and how to work as part of a team and contribute to team meetings.
- A good understanding of child development and attachment theories.
- An awareness of what constitutes good parenting and an ability to demonstrate a good role model to parents/young people in this respect.
- An understanding of a range of behaviour management strategies.
Skills & Abilities:
- Excellent organisational skills.
- An ability to deal effectively with a range of tasks happening at the same time and prioritise appropriately.
- Excellent communication skills and an ability to communicate appropriately with a range of professionals and families.
- Ability to work efficiently and effectively and actively look for ways of improving services and outcomes for customers.
- Able to work well with colleagues but also able to work on own initiative.
- A willingness to engage in any training relevant to the post.
- A commitment to fair and non-discriminatory service delivery, regardless of age, religion, race, culture, gender, disability or sexuality.
- A warm and caring personality and ability to relate effectively and sensitively to children, young people, parents and carers.
- Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
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Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
Full Driving licence, access to a vehicle or access to means of mobility support.
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