Assistant Support Worker

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 [email protected] 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 is to 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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