Senior Residential Support Worker
Earls Barton, Northamptonshire
£14.50 to £15.70 per hour (£30,160 to £32,656 per annum), plus sleep-ins of approximately £7,200 per annum
1 on, 2 off shift pattern, 8am start

This is a Senior Residential Support Worker role in Earls Barton, based within a small, low occupancy children's residential home supporting young people aged 8 to 18 with emotional and behavioural difficulties, and it's built around sustained relationships rather than simply managing numbers through the day.

What makes this organisation worth your attention

• The provider operates 14 homes, which gives you the reassurance of joining an organisation with genuine scale and a proven operating model, while each individual home is still kept small and low occupancy so that care remains properly individualised

• An in-house Associate Psychologist with over a decade of experience working with children and young people is embedded directly in the homes, providing staff training, clinical consultation, supervision, and direct therapeutic work with young people, a level of psychological support that shapes how the whole team thinks and works rather than sitting apart from daily practice

• The approach is built on what the organisation describes as the fundamentals of good parenting, meaning warmth, encouragement, patience, and consistency, with a genuine commitment to ensuring every young person in their care has access to the same opportunities as any other child, regardless of what has brought them into the care system

• Homes are situated in genuinely desirable locations with strong transport links and good access to local amenities, which supports both the young people's community connections and your own day to day commute

What the role involves

• Leading shifts and managing the deployment and welfare of the team on duty

• Providing direct care to young people aged 8 to 18 with EBD, working within individual care plans, risk assessments, and the home's therapeutic framework

• Contributing to and reviewing care plans, LAC documentation, and statutory review reports

• Supporting and mentoring less experienced staff, including involvement in induction and supervision

• Attending multi-agency meetings and maintaining working relationships with social workers, therapists, education providers, and CAMHS

• Maintaining the home environment to a high standard, including domestic tasks such as cooking and cleaning

• Completing accurate case records, incident reports, communication logs, and other required documentation

• Covering the registered or deputy manager in their absence

What they're looking for

• Level 3 in Residential Childcare, or equivalent

• Experience working with young people presenting with challenging or complex behaviours

• Experience of shift leading and supervising care staff

• Working knowledge of the Children's Homes Regulations 2015 and the accompanying Quality Standards

• The ability to write clearly and to a professional standard, including reports, reviews, and case records

• Emotional resilience, sound judgement, and the ability to maintain appropriate boundaries with young people who have experienced significant adversity

• A genuine commitment to anti-discriminatory, person centred practice

• Discretion, patience, and a proper sense of humour, since both matter more in this work than most job descriptions ever admit

To apply

If you have the experience and want to find out more, send your CV or get in touch for an informal conversation about the role before you apply.