Children’s Services Worker

Salary: £24,309.07 per annum (adjustment for pro rata hours, term time only)

Location: Swansea

Contract/Hours: Permanent, Part-time, Term-time (39 weeks per year)– 20 hours per week

Benefits:

• Paid leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave
• Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
• Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover
• Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts.

We are one of the largest children’s charities in the UK and have been making a difference to the lives of the UK’s vulnerable children for over 150 years.

Find out more about Action for Children here: Action for Children and on LinkedIn, Facebook or YouTube to get to know us better.

A bit about the role

As a Children’s Services Worker you’ll work within a team of four diligent play workers in the specialised areas, providing care to children within one on one or small group sessions at a ratio of 2:3 at any one time.

We concentrate mainly on Cognitive play, Sensory play, Communication & Social Play; supporting parents and families and whilst working as part of a multi-agency team.

Our sessions run from 9.30 -11.30 in the mornings and 12:45 – 14.45 in the afternoons.

We work through the medium of English and basic Welsh, Makaton and Picture referencing.

About the service

Stepping Stones is a vibrant Children’s Centre that provides play and development services for pre-school children with emerging additional needs or diagnosed disability. We aim to improve children’s outcomes in a fun and individualised way in the different areas of development, before we celebrate each child going on to a school setting when they are 3 years old.

How you”ll help to create brighter futures 

• By helping children thrive
• By providing a safe and fun and learning environment for young children
• By being a key worker for children and young people attending the session
• By accurately keeping sessional records and updating the progress of children ready to feed into school IDP’S and Progress reports to support their ongoing development

Let”s talk about you

As a Children’s Services Worker, you will need to have:

• NVQ/QCF Level 3 in Child Care and Development or BTEC Nursery Nurse or an Early Years Education Qualification
• Experience of working with children with additional needs or disabilities (desirable)
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal (essential skills for report writing duties)
• The ability to build good rapport with people in the team, the children and their families
• An understanding of the importance of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• An understanding of child development

Good to know

We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role

For more information about our Children’s Services Worker role, please review our full job description by clicking here.

If, for any reason, you need support with your application, please contact Scott Jones at [email protected] quoting reference 12234 and we”ll be happy to give you any support you require.

Diversity, equality, and inclusion

At Action for Children, we”re dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.

Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles.

Useful Documents:

• Action for Children employee benefits

• AfC Commitment Statement

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Cyflog: £24,309.07 y flwyddyn (addasiad ar gyfer oriau pro rata, amser tymor yn unig)

Lleoliad: Abertawe

Contract/Oriau: Parhaol, rhan-amser, yn ystod y tymor (39 wythnos y flwyddyn) – 20 oriau yr wythnos

Buddion:

• Gwyliau â thâl A gwyliau banc, gyda hyd at 5 diwrnod ychwanegol am wasanaeth parhaus ac opsiwn i brynu neu werthu dyddiau rhydd
• Ennill cymwysterau proffesiynol â chyfleoedd hyfforddiant/datblygiad rhagorol.
• Pecynnau mamolaeth, mabwysiadu a thadolaeth hyblyg.
• Pensiwn â hyd at 7% o gyfraniad y cyflogwr, sy’n cynnwys yswiriant bwyd
• Porth disgownt staff a chymhwysedd Cerdyn Golau Glas gyda disgowntiau gan 15,000 o werthwyr cenedlaethol

Rydym yn un o”r elusennau plant mwyaf yn y DU ac rydym wedi bod yn gwneud gwahaniaeth i fywydau plant bregus y DU ers dros 150 o flynyddoedd.

Dysgwch fwy am Weithredu dros Blant yma: Gweithredu dros Blant ac ar X, LinkedIn, Facebook neu YouTube i ddod i”n hadnabod yn well.

Gair am y rôl

Fel Gweithiwr Gwasanaethau Plant byddwch yn gweithio o fewn tîm o bedwar gweithiwr chwarae diwyd yn y meysydd arbenigol, gan ddarparu gofal i blant o fewn sesiynau un i un neu sesiynau grŵp bach ar gymhareb o 2:3 ar unrhyw un adeg.

Rydym yn canolbwyntio”n bennaf ar Chwarae Gwybyddol, Chwarae Synhwyraidd, Cyfathrebu a Chwarae Cymdeithasol; cefnogi rhieni a theuluoedd ac wrth weithio fel rhan o dîm aml-asiantaeth.

Mae ein sesiynau yn rhedeg o 9.30 -11.30 yn y bore a 12:45 – 14.45 yn y prynhawn.

Rydym yn gweithio trwy gyfrwng y Saesneg a Chymraeg sylfaenol, cyfeirnodi Makaton a Lluniau.

Ynglŷn â”r Gwasanaeth

Mae Stepping Stones yn Ganolfan Blant fywiog sy”n darparu gwasanaethau chwarae a datblygu i blant cyn oed ysgol sydd ag anghenion ychwanegol sy”n dod i”r amlwg neu anabledd sydd wedi cael diagnosis. Anelwn at wella canlyniadau plant mewn ffordd hwyliog ac unigolyddol yn y gwahanol feysydd datblygiad, cyn i ni ddathlu pob plentyn yn mynd ymlaen i leoliad ysgol pan fyddant yn 3 oed.

Sut y byddwch yn helpu i greu dyfodol mwy llewyrchus 

• Trwy helpu plant i ffynnu
• Trwy ddarparu amgylchedd dysgu diogel a hwyliog i blant ifanc
• Trwy fod yn weithiwr allweddol i blant a phobl ifanc sy”n mynychu”r sesiwn
• Trwy gadw cofnodion sesiwn yn gywir a diweddaru cynnydd plant yn barod i gyfrannu at CDUau ac adroddiadau Cynnydd yr ysgol i gefnogi eu datblygiad parhaus

Gadewch i ni siarad amdanoch chi

Fel Gweithiwr Gwasanaethau Plant, Yn ddelfrydol bydd gennych:

• NVQ/QCF Lefel 3 mewn Gofal a Datblygiad Plant neu Nyrs Feithrin BTEC
• Profiad o weithio gyda phlant ag anghenion ychwanegol neu anableddau (dymunol)
• Sgiliau cyfathrebu rhagorol yn ysgrifenedig ac ar lafar (sgiliau hanfodol ar gyfer dyletswyddau ysgrifennu adroddiadau)
• Y gallu i feithrin perthynas dda â phobl yn y tîm, y plant a”u teuluoedd
• Dealltwriaeth o bwysigrwydd gweithio fel rhan o dîm amlddisgyblaethol
• Deall datblygiad plant

Da i wybod

Sylwer na allwn gynnig nawdd ar gyfer y rôl hon.

Am ragor o wybodaeth am y rôl, adolygwch ein disgrifiad swydd llawn drwy glicio yma.

Os, am unrhyw reswm, bydd angen cefnogaeth arnoch gyda”ch cais, cysylltwch â Scott Jones yn[email protected]gan ddyfynnu cyfeirnod 11898 a byddwn yn hapus i roi unrhyw gefnogaeth sydd ei hangen arnoch chi.

Amrywiaeth, cydraddoldeb a chynhwysiant

Yn Gweithredu dros Blant, rydym yn ymroddedig i feithrin gweithle amrywiol, cynhwysol a dilys. Rydym yn annog ceisiadau’n frwd gan ymgeiswyr Du, Asiaidd ac o Ethnigrwydd Lleiafrifol, ac ymgeiswyr anabl, am nad ydynt wedi eu cynrychioli’n ddigonol yn Gweithredu dros Blant. Rydym am gymryd camau pwrpasol a bwriadol i sicrhau cyfleoedd cyfartal i bob grŵp mewn cymdeithas ac i Gweithredu dros Blant.

Mae staff gwrywaidd yn cael eu tangynrychioli o fewn ein rolau Gwasanaeth Plant. Hoffem annog mwy o ymgeiswyr gwrywaidd ar gyfer ein rolau Gwasanaeth Plant.

Dogfennau Defnyddiol:

• Llyfryn buddion gweithwyr Gweithredu dros
• Datganiad Ymrwymiad GdB