Senior Residential Support Worker

Children’s Residential Home
Salary: £33,164.80 to £36,120 (including sleep-ins)

You’ll be joining a provider with a strong footprint in children’s residential care, known for structured support, clear leadership and services that are properly resourced. Homes are set up to give staff the space to focus on relationships, not just processes, and there’s a real emphasis on development at every stage of your career.

If you like being hands-on, guiding others and still staying close to the young people, you’ll feel at home here.

The role

You’ll play a key part in the daily life of the home, supporting young people with routines, education, activities and the moments in between that matter just as much.

Alongside direct work, you’ll lead shifts, help shape practice across the team and contribute to care planning, risk management and reviews. You’ll be someone colleagues turn to for guidance, whether that’s supporting a new starter or helping the team think through a situation properly.

There’s structure around you. Supervision is regular, training is planned and leadership stays visible, which makes a huge difference when you’re working in a fast-moving environment.

What you’ll bring

• Level 3 (or above) in Residential Childcare

• Experience supporting children or young people in a residential setting

• Confidence leading shifts and supporting colleagues

• Solid understanding of safeguarding and children’s home regulations

• Full UK driving licence and confidence driving in all conditions

• Clear DBS

Pay, progression and development

There’s a defined progression pathway, with pay reviews twice yearly. Movement through the bands is based on demonstrated practice and development goals agreed in supervision, so expectations are transparent from the start.

Training is a genuine focus here. Face-to-face learning, funded qualifications and leadership development are all part of the offer, not something you have to chase.

Benefits

• Enhanced annual leave, including additional hours for your birthday

• Structured bonuses linked to performance and service outcomes

• Pension scheme

• Employee wellbeing support

• Refer-a-friend incentive

• Enhanced overtime rate

• Paid sleep-ins

Why people tend to stay

Because the homes are organised properly.
Because leaders are present and decisions are thoughtful.
Because there’s room to grow without stepping away from direct work.

It’s the kind of place where you can build a long-term career, not just pick up experience and move on. And if you care about doing the job well, you’ll find others around you who feel the same.