Young People Support Worker

Job Title: Children’s Support Worker (Residential)
Location: Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom
Salary: £14.24–£28.48 per hour (inclusive of holiday pay)

Job Description:
Do you want to enable children and young people who have been taken into care to have the best possible start in life? As a Children’s Support Worker in Barry, you’ll support young people to build independence, wellbeing, and positive outcomes—making a real, measurable difference every day. This Children’s Support Worker role in Barry offers long days, sleep ins, and waking nights, with excellent rates and weekly pay.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support children and young people with day-to-day activities and interests as a Children’s Support Worker in Barry
• Promote independence and wellbeing, ensuring each young person’s needs are met
• Attend weekends away, holidays, and trips away with the children
• Support weekend and evening activities, ranging from everyday interests to exciting trips
• Protect children and young people from risks to health and welfare
• Provide emotional and practical support within the home
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of care plans and guidelines to support safety
• Support, overcome, and help minimise incidents when behaviour can be challenging

Requirements:

• A desire to create positive outcomes for vulnerable children and young people
• Empathetic, caring, and resilient approach
• At least 6 months’ experience working with children or in a similar social care setting
• Restraint trained (or willing to undergo the 3-day course)
• Valid UK driving licence (required)
• TMVA/Restraint Training Certificate (or willingness to complete training)
• Current Enhanced DBS on the update service, or willingness to obtain one
• Right to work in the UK

Benefits (for this Children’s Support Worker role in Barry):

• Weekly pay and excellent rates of pay
• Free food while on shift
• Variety of work across social care and healthcare settings
• Mobile booking app for shift availability
• Support from a specialist consultant
• Free online training and subsidised practical training (TMVA, PMVA, PBM)
• Agency worker of the month prize (£50) and Golden Ticket draw (£500 quarterly)
• 24-hour registration

Vetro Recruitment acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Vetro is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merit alone.