Support Worker - Children & Young People

Job description

Location: Exeter/ Crediton

Hourly Rate: £13.50

Sleep in £70 per sleep

Contracted Hours: Full Time

About the role of Support Worker

The day to day -

Working within the children's home you will need to be able to adapt to a fun and fast paced environment, getting involved in a variety of activities and tasks ensuring a child centred approach. You might be playing football in the garden one minute, and going on a nature walk the next.

Care for others, a regular day involves doing what any other household would do: getting up for school, uniforms on, breakfast, house tidying, preparing meals, taking part in activities and finishing the day on a positive & we also get to do fun stuff too, spontaneous activities, regular clubs and house holidays

Support with future planning, independence, living and learning together and enable our children to grow and make their own decisions as appropriate.

Why choose Central & Southern Homes?

Central and Southern Homes provide care and support for a variety of young people. We have an array of services such from solo provision, groups home and supported living accommodation. At C&S we are passionate about providing children and young people a stable home where they can be happy and feel loved. We are focused on the children we support having high quality care with experiences which will form memories which they can cherish throughout their lives. We use a therapeutic approach supported by our clinical partner to ensure we manage behaviour in a way which allows the children to feel safe and secure by building positive, trusting relationships with the adults that care for them.

We offer competitive pay, ongoing internal & external professional support and mentoring, excellent training opportunities including externally accredited qualifications, such as QCF Level 4, First aid.

Fully funded training & qualifications

Full induction programme

Career progression opportunities within the organisation

Free meals

Company pension scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Free Parking

Enhanced DBS Disclosure & Barring Service) paid by us

Great work - life balance

224 annual leav...

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

Exeter

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

23-10-2026

Profession type

Counselling and Social Services

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