Community Children’s Support Worker (Must be a driver): Sponsorship Available

Peach Care Services Ltd is recruiting talented Community Children’s Support Workers who share our vision and values.

This role is based in the community, including activity and play centres, public parks, and children’s homes. It involves driving your own or a company vehicle to transport children for planned activities or to and from school in Milton Keynes and surrounding areas. You will also be expected to work full or part-time including alternate weekends.

We do not offer ‘Zero Hour’ contracts.

About this role:

A Community Children’s Support Worker differs significantly from a residential worker. While a residential worker is based in a care home, a community worker supports children who usually still live with their families.

Your primary goal in this role is to prevent family breakdown or hospital admission by providing the extra support needed to keep a child happy and safe at home.

The Core Focus: “Outreach” & “Respite”

You serve as a bridge between the child, their family, and the outside world. The role is less about “parenting” (since the parents are present) and more about empowerment and relief.

• Respite for Families: You might take the child out for upto 4 hours on an agreed day. This gives the child a fun social life while giving exhausted parents a vital break to rest or spend time with their other children.
• Community Access: You help children who might be at risk of social isolation (due to disability or anxiety) access clubs, cinemas, parks, or public transport.
• Independence Training: You coach them in real-world skills—how to ride the bus, how to shop or to cross the road safely.

Key Responsibilities:

• Community Access & Social Inclusion: Taking children out to participate in activities like swimming, bowling, cinema trips, or youth clubs to reduce social isolation.
• Respite Provision: Spending time with the child (either in their home or out) to give their primary carers (parents) a break.
• Independence Building: Coaching children on life skills, such as travel training (using the bus/train), handling money, or staying safe in public.
• Behavioural Support: Managing challenging behaviour in public settings using de-escalation methods.
• Reporting: completing “contact logs after every session to record the child’s mood, activities, and any safeguarding concerns.

Benefits:

• Company car
• Company events
• Company pension
• Employee mentoring programme
• Free or subsidised travel
• Free parking
• On-site parking
• Relocation assistance
• Sick pay
• UK visa sponsorship

Education:

• A-Level or equivalent (required)

Experience:

• Children’s Support: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

• Full UK driving licence (NOT PROVISIONAL) (required)