Residential Support Worker - Waking Nights
Location: Swindon/Wanborough
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £14.00 per hour
Shifts: 10.00 pm – 07.00 am or 10.00 pm – 09.00 am
Job Overview
We are seeking a dedicated Children's Residential Support Worker to join our team. This role involves providing compassionate care and support to children and young people within a residential setting. The successful candidate will work closely with children, families, and multidisciplinary teams to promote wellbeing, development, and safety. This position offers an opportunity to make a meaningful difference in young people's lives while developing professional skills in childcare and support services.
What you’ll do:
- Support children and young people with daily routines, personal development, and independence skills
- Build positive, appropriate relationships and provide emotional and practical support throughout the day and maintain professional boundaries in their work
- Encourage engagement in education, activities, and community involvement
- Maintain accurate records and contribute to care planning
- Work collaboratively with colleagues to ensure consistency and continuity of care
- Work within organisational policies, procedures and guidance
·Contribute to maintaining a clean, safe and welcoming home environment, in line with organisational standards and infection-control procedures
What we’re looking for:
- Someone caring, patient, and reliable with a positive attitude that takes action and raises concerns if needed.
- Strong communication and teamwork skills, who are committed to demonstrating the organisation's values and behaviours in their work
- The ability to stay calm and responsive in challenging situations
- Experience working with children or in residential care, or support work within an education setting, is desirable but not essential, as full training will be provided
- A genuine passion for helping young people thrive and achieve their potential
- Proficiency in IT systems for record keeping and reporting purposes
· The role requires regular travel between homes and may involve transporting young people. Applicants must be able to meet this requirement; reasonable adjustments will be considered where appropriate.
What we offer:
- Full induction and ongoing training (including nationally recognised qualifications)
- A supportive team environment with 24/7 on-call support
- Training and development to support career progression
- Competitive pay and regular supervision
- Workplace pension
- 28 days’ holiday, including bank holidays, pro rata
- Employee Assistance Programme
Our organisation is committed to safe and fair recruitment, safeguarding and protecting those we care for and serve. We make sure all our staff are vetted, selected, trained, and supervised fairly and to a high standard so that they can provide safe, effective, and compassionate care.
Any offer will be conditional on satisfactory safer recruitment checks appropriate to the role, including identity and right-to-work checks, satisfactory references and an Enhanced DBS check, including a check of the Children’s Barred List, where the role is legally eligible.
If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in any stage of our recruitment process, please let us know when you apply or contact us at any time. We will work with you to make the process as accessible and inclusive as possible.
If you’re someone who takes pride in supporting others and wants to make a real difference in young people’s lives each day, we’d love to hear from you.
Unfortunately, we are unable to offer sponsorship because we do not currently hold a sponsorship license. All applicants must be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK.
Pay: £14.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
Education:
- GCSE or equivalent (preferred)
Experience:
- Working with children: 1 year (preferred)
- Computer literacy: 1 year (preferred)
Work Location: In person
