Support Assistant

Job description

Are you a residential support worker looking for new challenges?

Keen to make a difference in the lives of children with complex needs?

If the answer is yes, then we need you!

Location: Glenrothes

Pay rates: Upto £18/hr

We offer part-time and full-time shifts which can be booked through our app or by catching up with your own dedicated consultant.

Randstad is working to support a respite service supporting children and their families with complex learning and physical disabilities. This is a rewarding service to work in, taking young people out of their regular routine to relax and enjoy themselves in a safe and nurturing environment. This contract is temporary with the possibility of becoming permanent.

What can Randstad offer you?

- Competitive rates

- Established national service

- Opportunity to pick up overtime in other services Randstad supports

- Excellent career progressions; the service is keen to promote from within

- Unlimited friend referral bonuses

- Immediate start

- Extensive training in industry standard courses supported by online learning

- Help with SSSC registration

- Randstad employee discount app

- Support from within the team and a dedicated Randstad consultant

A successful child support worker will be responsible for:

- Working effectively as part of a team of child support workers

- Providing 24 hours care to a vulnerable young people

- Providing personal care to children

- Administering medication

- Promoting a positive parenting role model

- Ensuring professional boundaries are in place

- Maintaining professional manner and working to National Care Standards

To be successful in your application, you will:

- Have previous experience working in a residential setting with young people

- Have flexibility in the roles undertaken

- Have strong communication skills

- Register under the PVG scheme

- Full driving licence (Required)

- Obtained, or working towards SVQ level 3 in Health and Social Care, or equivalent desirable

If this sounds like the position for you, don't delay!

If you're passionate about improving lives and embody a strong work ethic, apply now!

If you know someone who you think would be a good fit. Please feel free to forward this email and you should be eligible for rewards upto £300.

Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.

Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

Glenrothes

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Salary indication

Between £15.00 and £18.00 Per Hour

Published at

11-05-2026

Profession type

Home Care Jobs

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English