Senior Residential Support Worker

3 Bed EBD Children's Home

Old Trafford, Manchester (M16)

£31,000 to £33,000 per annum + £65 per sleep (realistic take home annually £38,800 to £41,800)

This is a Senior Residential Support Worker role at a three-bed children's home in Old Trafford, Manchester, supporting young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties on a 1:1 basis, paying between £31,000 and £33,000 per annum with an additional £65 per sleep. If you've been waiting for a senior position where the leadership knows what it's doing and the young people are settled enough for you to do your best work, this is probably worth reading on.

What makes this one different

Most job adverts in children's residential care will tell you the same things: supportive team, person-centred practice, competitive salary, opportunities to develop. And maybe that's all true, but it doesn't tell you much about what it's actually like to walk through the door on a Monday morning, so here's what sets this home apart.

The provider behind this role has been deliberate about everything from the start, and that kind of intentionality is noticeable pretty quickly when you're in the room with them. Their Registered Manager, Operations Manager and Responsible Individual bring nearly fifty years of sector experience between them, that's not a management structure that's learning on the job or borrowing frameworks from other services and hoping for the best. These are people who understand children's residential care from the inside out, who know their Regulations, who have relationships with their Ofsted inspector and their Local Authority built on genuine trust rather than performance, and who have created a home where young people are settled, engaged and making real progress.

The home itself is a three-bed EBD setting supporting two young people right now, with a third placement expected soon. Both children are well settled and all young people in the home are currently on 1:1 support, so this is a focused, thoughtful environment where you'll actually know the young people you're working with and have the time and space to do the job properly, rather than constantly being pulled in four directions at once.

They received a Good from Ofsted at their first inspection within 16 weeks of registration, which is exactly the kind of early evidence that tells you this isn't a provider who registered a home and then figured out the detail later.

What you'll be doing

• Providing consistent, trauma-informed 1:1 support to young people aged 13 to 16 with emotional and behavioural difficulties, in line with their individual care plans and risk assessments

• Taking a senior lead on shift, supporting and guiding less experienced members of the team and modelling high standards of practice under the Children's Homes Regulations 2015

• Building genuine, therapeutic relationships with young people that create the conditions for progress and stability

• Contributing to care planning, review documentation and key worker responsibilities with accuracy and genuine insight

• Working closely with the Registered Manager and wider leadership team to maintain and build on the home's Good Ofsted rating

• Maintaining safer recruitment standards, safeguarding practice and a culture where young people feel genuinely heard and safe

• Participating in the sleep-in rota, for which you'll receive £65 per sleep in addition to your annual salary

What we're looking for

• Solid experience in children's residential care, ideally with young people presenting with EBD or similar complex needs

• Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare or equivalent, or a genuine commitment to completing it if you're currently working towards it

• A confident senior practitioner who can hold a shift, support a team and advocate effectively for young people

• Someone who understands that the relationship between a key worker and a young person in residential care is maybe the most important thing in the whole building, and who takes that responsibility seriously

• Full UK driving licence

• An enhanced DBS on the Update Service, or willingness to apply for one

Why this is worth your time

The salary range of £31,000 to £33,000 reflects the complexity of working therapeutically with young people who've experienced significant early trauma, and the £65 per sleep acknowledges that overnight support in an EBD home is not a passive responsibility. Beyond the money, there's a second home opening within the next twelve months, which means genuine progression for someone who wants to grow with an organisation that's going somewhere. The thing that stands out most is how much the leadership here has thought about staff wellbeing, not as a wellbeing policy on a shared drive somewhere, but as a practical philosophy that shapes how they run the home day to day.

If you're a Senior Residential Support Worker in Manchester or across Greater Trafford looking for a move into something more grounded, more thoughtfully led and more focused on quality than volume, I'd love to have a conversation with you.

Get in touch directly and we'll talk through whether this is the right fit.