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Organisation: London Borough of Waltham Forest

Salary: Scale 5 £32,535 - £34,488

Contract Type:Full-time/Permanent

Working hours per week: 36 (across 7 days including bank holidays and weekends on a rota)

Application Deadline: 07/08/2026

Proposed Interview Date(s): W/C 17/08/2026

Reference: 2220

About Us:

Bursting with culture, energy, and opportunity, the London Borough of Waltham Forest is a fantastic and exciting place to work.

We are a highly ambitious borough. Driven by culture and the innate creativity of our residents, we have developed new and innovative ways to build our communities. Our Council is relentlessly resident-focused, insight-led, digitally driven and commercially minded; a Council focused on meeting the needs of our existing and future residents.

London Borough of Waltham Forest is one of the Mayor of London’s Good Work Standard employers. This accreditation is a proof of our commitment to creating a healthy, fair and inclusive workplace. This includes fair pay and conditions, workplace well-being, skills and progression and diversity and recruitment.

The Council’s preference is for online application. However, if you have a disability and are unable to complete an online application, please email recruitment@walthamforest.gov.uk so we can arrange an alternative application method.

About the role:

You will provide support, assistance, to four young people who live at Leyton green Road. You will attend to their practical, physical, and emotional needs, act as an appropriate role model and to work closely with them to enable them to address their difficulties and achieve their optimum potential. You will have a lead role in ensuring the care and welfare of each child, give guidance and support to children and their families in the planning of their care by considering their wishes, feeling, and seeking their opinion in all matters that affect them. (The voice of the child). Offer support which seeks to meet and exceed The Care Act and the Children and Families Act (2014). To raise any concerns with the Registered Manager as appropriate. Our aim isto Safeguard children and young people, provide a good standard of living, promote the wellbeing of our young people, take all wishes, thoughts, feelings & preferences from them in to account.

Overall, we aim to provide a safe, loving environment that allows young people to develop and achieve; leading to as independent a life as possible in the future.

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Key Responsibilities:

Key tasks are carried out which may arise during the shift as part of good childcare practice, task such as:

• Each shift thoroughly planned prior to and after handover. Detailed and allocated tasks are set to each person on duty using our shift planner.
• Children and young people are supported with personal care considering their dignity and respect.
• Children and young people’s medication is administered in line with our medication policy.
• Young people are encouraged and supported to attend education and in any home learning projects.
• You will assist in the preparation and cooking of meals as well as shopping and other domestic tasks Meals are planned weekly considering children choices, preferences and dietary needs.
• You will ensure that Children and young people are encouraged and supported to take part in activities. including developing independence skills at an appropriate level.

Qualifications and Requirements:

To be considered for this position, you should meet the following requirements:

• English and Math Qualification
• Relevant NVQ 3 qualification
• Ideally you will hold a minimum Level 3 in Children’s Residential care or equivalent. If you don’t hold this qualification you will be required to work towards it within 2 years
• Knowledge and experience of working with children and young people with learning disabilities and complex needs.
• Knowledge of a range of legislation and policy frameworks in relation to children and young people,
• Experience of working with children and families with specific, multiple, and complex needs.
• Knowledge and understanding of families from a range of cultures and communities.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Experience of partnership working.
• Good planning and organisational skills,
• Proven initiative and judgement to identify and resolve problems.
• Good ICT skills - both standard Microsoft applications and specialist systems.
• Ability to work with minimum supervision, using problem solving skills and initiative to provide a customer focused support service.
• Excellent levels of literacy and numeracy.
• Ability to work flexibly, balancing competing priorities and meeting deadlines whilst understanding the needs, timescales, and deadlines of others.
• Ideally the successful candidate will hold a full clean driving license and be prepared to drive the home's minibus. ( Not essential)

Terms and conditions:

The below terms and conditions apply to this role:

• Satisfactory employment references and CIFAS identity checks;
• Satisfactory declaration of interest;
• This role is subject to safer recruitment practices as it involves work with children and/ or vulnerable adults;
• Satisfactory DBS check;
• Suitable driver’s license;
• As a public authority, we must ensure that members of staff in public-facing roles are able to speak fluent English. This means that they must have a command of spoken English, with confidence and accuracy, sufficient for the effective performance of their role. This requirement does not refer to any particular English language qualifications, regional or international accents, dialects, speech impediments or the tone of conversations. It does not require staff to speak only in English.

How to Apply:

Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications online by pressing the ‘Apply’ button below. This includes a supporting statement that outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Waltham Forest is a diverse borough where diversity is valued and is integral to both, service delivery and employment of its staff. The Council is proud of its rich mix of communities and as the largest employer in the area, it works hard to respond to the changing needs of its population. We use our statutory duties on race, gender and disability equality and best practice in respect of age, faith and sexual orientation to ensure equality of opportunity in the workplace. The Council is committed to meeting its 4 equality objectives: - Promoting equality of opportunity - Opposing all forms of discrimination, intolerance and disadvantage - Ensuring our workforce reflects the diverse communities of Waltham Forest at all levels. - Providing fair, appropriate, accessible and excellent Services to all. Respecting Diversity is a core Council value.

To support the above and reduce the risk of bias in its recruitment activities, the council is operating an anonymous shortlisting process, which hides personal information that can identify individuals until their application has been considered for shortlisting. The council also operates a scheme whereby, for jobs graded up to and including scale SO2, internal candidates are considered first. This includes those candidates who self-identify as having a disability for the purposes of the Disability Confident scheme. For more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy.

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below or feel free to discuss this during your interview.

For more information on the benefits of working for the Council, please visit https://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/jobs-and-training/find-jobs-and-other-opportunities/working-us.

Contact Information:

If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process, please contact David Ballard Registered Manager at david.ballard@walthamforest.gov.uk

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post, please contact our Recruitment Team via email at recruitment@walthamforest.gov.uk.

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