Part-time PA to 5-year-old boy with SEN, NR4 area, £11.68 p/h - Norwich - NR4

Job Reference (5effe33c)

• 3 hours most weekends (NOTE - The law states unless you are a registered childminder, you can only care for a child aged under 8 for a maximum of 2 hours outside of their home.)
• If possible, one-pick up from school at 3:15, taking him to the playground near our house and potentially doing bath time (once F is familiar and comfortable with you) while I prepare dinner 
• School holidays - time negotiable
• I am also looking for someone as an alternative to (or support for) my elderly parents to care for my son when I have to go away overnight on business.
• Possible babysitting until 7.30-10.15pm every now and then.

• As detailed above: some hours over the weekend, playing inside, or in our garden, or outside our house in the park: pick up from school or After School Club, take t playground and monitor/play with him; bathtime once a week (shadowing me to start with, so he feels comfortable); bedtime on occasion (but frequently enough so child is used to it for when I go away); potential babysitting.
• Clean child/change clothes if toilet accidents occur (which they do!)
• Potentially getting child lunch during the weekend care

• DBS check
• Checkable recent references
• First aid training
• Extensive hands-on childcare experience with under 5s
• SEN experience - well used to, and capable of, dealing with boundary-pushing and mischief from young children but also neuro-divergence and potentially unsettled/challenging behaviour.
• Calm, friendly, trustworthy, reliable, fun, great rapport with young children, compassionate.
• Patience in abundance
• Willing to do personal care - F can be incontinent
• Energetic and fit enough to play sports with him, and be to able to run after him if required! He has a tendency to run off
• A desire to create a rapport with child in your care, with a view to part-time care on a potentially long-term basis.

• Previous work with care-experienced children
• Bedtime nannying experience
• Childcare qualifications
• Knowledge of impact of early life trauma on development and behaviour
• Own car and potentially prepared to drive child if relationships all go well (within the 2 hours max allowed out of the home)

• You will be reimbursed for any agreed expenses as part of this role.
• The rate of pay for this position is £11.68 per hour through Short Breaks provided by Norfolk County Council. Up to 104 hours annually (average 2 hours per week) paid this way. Self-Employed at £14.73 an hour.
• Flexible working - as stated above, I am relatively flexible about how this works. Days and times to be discussed at interview stage. Please detail what you can provide based on my description of our needs. 
• A satisfactory enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, the cost of which will be covered by the employer
• Satisfactory passing of mandatory training care courses.
• Satisfactory references from two referees, one of which must be your current or last employer.
• Completion of a satisfactory probation period of 6 months.