CrossReach
Relief Children's Worker
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About CrossReach
At CrossReach, we believe every child deserves the opportunity to thrive. We are currently seeking caring, enthusiastic, and resilient Children’s Workers to join our dedicated team supporting children and young people with disabilities.
Working in one of our specialist services, you’ll play a vital role in providing a safe, nurturing, and stimulating environment for children with a range of additional support needs, including physical, learning, and complex disabilities.
About the Role
In this rewarding role, you will provide person-centred care tailored to each child’s individual needs. This includes supporting with personal care, communication, emotional wellbeing, and daily activities that promote independence and self-esteem. You’ll be working closely with families, therapists, and other professionals to ensure the best outcomes for each child. Creativity, warmth, and a sense of fun are essential, as you’ll be helping to build confidence and create meaningful experiences in each child’s life.
Qualifications and Experience
We’re looking for someone with a genuine passion for working with children with disabilities. While experience in a similar role is desirable, it’s not essential—what matters most is your empathy, patience, and willingness to learn. You should be comfortable working both independently and as part of a team, with flexibility to work evenings and weekends as needed. An SVQ Level 3 in Social Services (Children and Young People) is ideal, but if you don’t have it yet, we’ll support you to achieve it.
Benefits
We also offer you a range of benefits that you would expect from an organisation that supports others.
- Access to a wide range of exclusive retail and leisure discounts through our rewards scheme and the Blue Light Discount card.
- A generous contributory pension plan and death in service benefit.
- Enhanced family friendly policies.
- Access to our health cash plan, giving you cash back for a wide range of health treatments.
- A care concierge service to assist you with life's challenges, providing invaluable support when you need it most.
But we also know that your training and development is important to you, and as well as a contribution to your professional membership fees, we are keen to support you in making the right steps to learn, grow and develop in ways that are right for you.
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About Us
CrossReach has been at the forefront of high quality social care for over 150 years, providing loving care to people of all ages and supporting them to live life to the full whatever their circumstances. During that time, we have worked hard to understand the needs of the people who turn to us for help and with them have been at the forefront of pioneering services which have literally changed thousands of lives for the better.
Today we are one of the largest social care providers in Scotland, with experience across a broad range of services. We are still growing, learning, and improving, thanks to the incredible people we have the privilege to support, and all those who support us. We are part of the Church of Scotland and aim to provide social care services and specialist resources in Christ’s name to further the caring work of the Church to people in challenging circumstances.
As we do our work in Christ’s name you must be respectful of our Christian Ethos and be able to work within it.
Requirements
This post requires you to be a member of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme and undertake the necessary vetting checks. You will also be required to be registered with SSSC and it is your professional responsibility to ensure that you meet the standards and criteria for registration.
We have a legal obligation to ensure that we do not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK. This permission is without exception granted by UK Visas and Immigrations. We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category.
We are committed to ensuring that we attract, retain, and develop the very best people to build a diverse and talented team and we recognise that every individual’s unique background, experience and ability contributes to our success. We aim to create an inclusive and inspiring environment where individuals feel valued and respected and where people can belong, thrive and be their very best, whoever they are.
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This guide outlines the physical, environmental, and location based aspects of the role to help you understand how the work is carried out and whether it’s right for you. It may also help you identify any adjustments or support that would enable you to do your best work. We welcome conversations about what you personally need to work within our services, and we’re committed to making reasonable adjustments to support you where possible.
Application Process
If you have any queries regarding this role or our recruitment process, please contact the Recruitment team on recruitment.team@crossreach.org.uk
Please note: We reserve the right to close this advert prior to the closing date. Therefore, please make sure you complete and submit your application at an early stage.
Additional Information For Candidates
- Application Process: Please apply for this post by completing the application process on Jobtrain. You can find out more about our recruitment process CrossReach Recruitment Process
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- Deadline: Posts close at midnight on the indicated date.
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