Cluster Residential Child Care Worker

If you enjoy working with children and have the resilience to deal with challenging behaviours while still being able to offer a caring and supportive therapeutic approach, then we would love to hear from you!

Pebbles Care has an exciting opportunity for you to collaborate with our established team and become an integral part of our children\’s lives. Your role may vary each working day across a small cluster of homes, with various shift patterns to support holiday or training cover. Our unique cluster roles allow you to enhance your development and enrich your experience by offering varied work and the opportunity to work across diverse teams.

Responsibilities

• Daily home life duties, such as driving our children to and from school, appointments, and visits (a full UK manual driving license is essential).
• Teach valuable life skills, including meal preparation and household chores, while creating lasting memories through engaging activities, outings, and holidays.
• Provide support tailored to the young person’s needs, either one-to-one or two-to-one, working collaboratively with your team on shift across multiple locations in a cluster of homes within a short journey of each other.
• Training will begin on day one with a comprehensive induction and shadow shifts to learn about the Pebbles Way and the therapeutic care model, supported by your manager and our in-house Learning and Development team.

What We Offer You

• A starting salary of £34,719.00 to £36,248.00 per annum, pro rata, depending on experience.
• Cluster full-time rota: one day on (24 hours, including sleepover) and two days off (48 hours). This may be subject to change; salary stated is based on this pattern.
• Average weekly working hours, including sleepovers, are 56.4; rota depends on home requirements.
• 5.6 weeks annual leave per annum (pro rata for part-time contracts).
• Funding for Level 3 SVQ / NVQ qualification in Residential Child Care through our Learning and Development team.
• Career review after induction, training, and minimum qualifications.
• Auto-enrolment into our salary sacrifice pension scheme (Scottish Widows).
• Medicash cash-back health care plan for dental and optical treatments, discounted gym memberships, 24/7 GP access, free counselling, and more.
• Blue Light Card for store discounts.
• Meals provided during shifts, aligned with the home’s menu for that day.

What Sets Pebbles Apart

• We strive to provide personalised therapeutic care and education.
• Defined developmental pathway with a leadership development plan for progression.
• Pebbles has fifty-six beautiful homes and three established schools in North England and Scotland.
• Specialisation in residential child care and education for young people aged 8 to 18.
• Ambitious growth initiatives planned for 2026.
• Nearly 23 years of experience guiding young people toward brighter futures.

Essential Qualities

• Flexible approach to your work pattern.
• Commitment to safeguarding children and young people.
• Strong desire to obtain qualifications and pursue personal development.
• Confident and resilient nature.
• Valid, full UK driver’s license (all homes have manual vehicles).
• Kind and supportive nature.
• Patience and ability to cultivate non-judgmental relationships.
• Engaged and attentive listener.
• Creative ability to have fun and learn new skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficient IT skills and experience with Microsoft packages.

Desirable Qualities

• Up to 12 months of experience working with children or young adults (more than 12 months may qualify for higher salaries).
• Working towards, or a desire to obtain, SCQF Level 7 or Level 3 Diploma relevant to the Children and Young People’s Residential workforce (funding may be available).
• Familiar with Codes of Practice set out by regulatory bodies.
• Existing PVG / DBS certificate.

Are You Ready to Join Our Family?

Please complete our online application form. If you would like to discuss the role further with our team, please email recruitment@pebblescare.com and a member of our team will contact you.

Please note that due to the fast-paced nature of our recruitment process, shortlisting will be ongoing, and we may choose to end the recruitment campaign if a suitable candidate is identified before the end date.