Children's Support Worker

Job Title: Youth Complex Support Worker

Location: Penzance / St Ives, Cornwall

Pay: £14.00 to £20.00 per hour (Weekly Pay plus Holiday Pay)

Job Type: Flexible Temporary and Block Bookings

• Highly Competitive Pay: Excellent starting scales from £14.00 to £20.00 per hour depending on experience.
• Referral Scheme: Receive a £300 Love2Shop reward voucher for every colleague you introduce.
• Expert Guidance: Dedicated expert support from a localised consultant who values your career growth.
• Work Life Balance: Freedom to build a flexible rota completely around your personal commitments.
• Placements: Direct lines into incoming long term packages and temporary block bookings.

Are you an experienced care professional looking to use your skills where they are needed most? We believe that behind every challenging behaviour is a young person communicating severe distress and past trauma. We need workers who look past the surface and bring calm into chaotic situations.

We are urgently recruiting a specialised team of crisis workers to support vulnerable youth across Penzance, St Ives, and the far west peninsula. You will be delivering specialised person centred intervention to children with complex neurodevelopmental profiles, autism, and high risk behaviours.

This opening is ideally suited to anyone who has a background as a Youth Mentor, Support Worker, SEN Teaching Assistant, Therapeutic Support Worker, Family Support Worker, or Sports Coach.

• Nurture Well Being: Encourage healthy daily structures, independent lifeskills, and safe community outings.
• De escalate Crisis: Step into highly volatile situations and use verbal techniques to successfully de escalate tension without friction.
• Collaborate Daily: Work alongside social workers, therapists, and internal managers to implement robust care plans.

• Experience: Minimum 6 months of paid support work experience inside the UK social care or education sector.
• Approach: A compassionate, low ego, and deeply resilient approach to managing physical aggression or absconding risks.
• Transport: Full UK driving licence with access to a vehicle is required due to the geographic layout of the packages.

If you know an experienced youth worker or residential carer looking for premium weekly pay, pass our details on to them. For every candidate you refer who completes their initial shift milestones, you will pocket a £300 Love2Shop voucher to spend at hundreds of major high street retailers.

Our compliance team is ready to fast track your application. Send us your CV today or contact our local branch to find out more about our upcoming block bookings. Click apply now and ensure you don't miss out on these exclusive Cornwall care packages.

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.

experience

Children services

skills

be able to manage challenging situations,be person centred,can work as an individual or part of a team,caring,competent at dealing with all stakeholders,critical thinking