Family Support Assistant

Family Support Assistant

BRIDGES Family Support Assistant

20 hours per week

Grade D scp 6 £23,893 to scp 11 £25,979 (£12,917 to £14,042 actual pro rata salary)

Permanent

The Role

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The BRIDGES Family Support Team supports disabled children and their families, we have a permanent Family Support Assistant positions available for 20 hours per week.

As a Family Support Assistant, you will be a vital part of the team providing practical and personal support to disabled children. The support you will offer may be in their own homes or to enable them to get out and about. 

You will be committed to helping families meet the needs of the young people in their care and, you must be willing to undertake training.

Bridges Family Support Team is unique! It’s a fabulous team with outstanding outcomes for disabled children, young people, and their families.

You will be operating within the wider Short Break Care team meeting the assessed need of disabled children and their families across Bolton. This is a team with a strong ethos of person-centred planning responding to individual needs of each child. Hours of work vary from person to person according to need, and team members pride themselves on their flexibility.

About You

You will be a highly motived individual, comfortable working within a team or by yourself, caring for disabled children and young people.

You will be committed and passionate about providing high quality, person centred practical, emotional and social support to the children in your care.

You won’t be expected to know everything, but you must want to work alongside our children and families and be willing to learn from them, our team members and by undertaking formal training.

You will care about what you do and want to provide the highest quality care and experience you can. This means that you will be working flexibly according to the assessed needs of families. This includes some weekend work and both early morning and late evening shifts.

About Us

This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough. 

Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.

As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.  

For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see the Work with Us page on greater.jobs;  for advice and support with your application, contact recruitment@bolton.gov.uk

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