Complex Children’s Residential Support Worker
Location: Darwen
Organisation: Associated Wellbeing
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Rota-based (including long days and sleep-ins when needed)
Salary: £ 13.00 - 13.50 1.5 additional for NIGHTS and WEEKENDS
Annual Leave: 217 hours
DBS: Enhanced
A Job That Changes Lives – Including Yours - Make a Real Difference Where It Matters Most
Complex Safeguarding Children’s Home in Darwen providing care for children and young people whose needs are too complex for standard residential provision.
Children placed within this home may have experienced significant trauma, including child sexual exploitation (CSE), child criminal exploitation (CCE), serious youth violence, and profound emotional harm. Some children may also be subject to Deprivation of Liberty (DoL) arrangements to ensure their safety and welfare. Many will present with significant mental health needs, emotional dysregulation, and high-risk behaviours.
We are seeking skilled, resilient, and compassionate Complex Children’s Residential Support Workers who understand the responsibility of working with highly vulnerable children within intensive safeguarding and therapeutic environments, and who can provide care that is lawful, proportionate, and firmly child-centred.
The Role
You will provide consistent, trauma-informed care within a structured residential setting, ensuring children feel safe, protected, and emotionally supported. You will work in line with individual care plans, risk assessments, positive behaviour support plans, mental health support strategies, and DoL authorisations, maintaining clear professional boundaries at all times.
This role requires:
· Confidence supporting children affected by exploitation, serious youth violence, and complex mental health needs
· An understanding of Deprivation of Liberty and restrictive care frameworks
· A calm, reflective, and emotionally regulated approach to risk and safeguarding
Why Join Associated Wellbeing?
- Guaranteed salary based on 38 hours per week, plus overtime
- Paid, comprehensive induction and fully funded qualifications (Levels 3, 4 & 5)
- Ongoing specialist training, supervision, and reflective practice
- Supportive leadership and clear progression pathways
- Shift patterns provided in advance to support work/life balance
- The opportunity to work in a specialist setting delivering meaningful outcomes
- Blue Light Card
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £13.00-£19.50 per hour
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Store discount
Work Location: In person
