RESIDENTIAL

SUPPORT WORKER

Residential Support Worker

  • Children's Residential Home

  • 2 Bed EBD / SEMH

  • Wellingborough, Northamptonshire (NN8)

  • £14.58 per hour | Approx. 40 hours per week

  • Sleep-ins paid at £55 per night (typically one per week)

  • Mixed rota including days, evenings, weekends and sleep-ins

The homes are intentionally small, based in Northamptonshire, and located so that young people can access education, health services, leisure and community life while keeping hold of the relationships that matter to them. That size is a deliberate choice because it keeps the work personal, meaning you get to know the young people properly, routines feel like a real home, and decisions about care stay close to the people actually doing it.

What makes this service worth your attention:

  • Managers remain present and involved in the homes, not just visible on paper

  • Supervision is meaningful rather than a monthly formality

  • Training is funded, actively encouraged and taken seriously across the service

  • The culture is reflective and genuinely child-centred, which you notice from early on

  • Most people who join stay for the long term, and the low turnover speaks for itself

What You'll Be Doing

As a Residential Support Worker, you'll be one of the consistent adults shaping everyday life in the home, and that consistency is one of the most important things a young person in residential care can experience. Your day-to-day will include:

  • Supporting young people through their routines, school attendance and everyday life

  • Building relationships that help young people feel safe, valued and genuinely respected

  • Encouraging independence, confidence and personal progress at each young person's own pace

  • Supporting appointments, education provision and family contact

  • Getting involved in activities, hobbies and time spent out in the community

  • Using trauma-informed approaches to guide behaviour and emotional development

  • Recording important moments and progress clearly within daily logs and care records

  • Working alongside social workers, education providers and therapeutic professionals to keep young people connected to the wider support around them

What You'll Bring

Some of the strongest practitioners in residential childcare came through schools, youth clubs or community projects before finding their way into children's homes, so experience doesn't have to mean a long residential CV. What counts most is the ability to build genuine relationships, stay curious about the people you're supporting and reflect honestly on your own practice. You'll need:

  • Experience working with children or young people in residential childcare, education, youth work or community settings

  • A Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare, or a genuine willingness to work towards it - funding is provided

  • Good communication skills and the ability to reflect on your own practice with openness

  • A collaborative approach to working as part of a team

  • A full UK manual driving licence

Pay and Benefits

  • £14.58 per hour

  • Sleep-ins paid at £55 per night, with typically only one sleep-in per week

  • 28 days annual leave including bank holidays

  • Funded qualifications including Level 3 and Level 4 in Residential Childcare

  • Ongoing professional training and development throughout your career here

  • Structured supervision with experienced managers who are present in the homes

  • A clear and well-used progression route into Senior Residential Support Worker roles

  • Company pension scheme

  • Wellbeing support

Progression here is genuine and internal, and a number of the service's senior practitioners started as Residential Support Workers and developed their careers without needing to look elsewhere, because the opportunity was already there.

Why People Choose to Stay

Staff share ideas openly, support each other through difficult shifts and invest real thought into their practice, and that collective approach is what creates the kind of consistency that young people in residential care need most. When the relationships built here start to shift things for the young people living in these homes, which over time they do, you're reminded of why you came into this work in the first place, and that feeling is worth more than most things a job advert can promise you.

How to Apply

Apply through Indeed or send your CV to arrange an initial conversation, and successful applicants will be contacted shortly after shortlisting. All appointments follow safer recruitment procedures including Enhanced DBS checks, references and right-to-work verification.

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