Children's Residential Support Worker - LD in Marple

Have you ever wanted to make a difference to the lives of vulnerable Children and Young People? Our children’s home in Romiley, Stockport provides residential care for Children and Young People with Emotional Behavioural difficulties, Autism, Learning difficulties and complex needs. The Together Trust is one of the North West’s leading charities and one of the UK’s best employers, offering individual care, support, and education to hundreds of children, young people, and adults each year. We are a not-for-profit charitable trust, so every penny goes back into benefiting the people that we support.

Location: Romiley, Stockport. Hours: 37.5 Hours. Salary £26,230 annual salary, £107.60 for sleep-in shifts, Enhanced pay of time and a quarter at weekends.

Are you passionate about supporting children and young people to achieve their full potential? Do you have the resilience, compassion, and dedication needed to help young people thrive in a residential care setting? We are looking for committed and caring Children's Residential Support Workers to join our residential teams.

About the Role

As a Children's Residential Support Worker, you will play a vital role in providing high-quality care and support to young people living within our residential services. You will work closely with colleagues, families, and partner agencies to help young people develop independence, build confidence, and achieve positive outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Provide a caring, safe, secure, and accepting environment for young people.
• Support young people’s physical, emotional, social, educational, and health needs.
• Assist in the assessment of needs and the development of individual care plans.
• Undertake direct work with young people to help them achieve their goals and reach their potential.
• Act as a Key Worker for allocated young people under supervision.
• Support educational attendance, engagement, and achievement.
• Promote positive relationships with families and significant others.
• Monitor, assess, and record risks while maintaining appropriate professional boundaries.
• Contribute to care planning meetings, statutory reviews, and multidisciplinary working.
• Maintain accurate records and produce high-quality reports.
• Support young people during activities, appointments, holidays, and community-based experiences using Trust vehicles where required.

Qualifications

• Good standard of written and spoken English.
• QCF/NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care (Children & Young People) or equivalent, or willingness to achieve within required timescales.
• Experience working with children and young people in a residential, care, education, youth work, or similar setting.
• Understanding of the rights and needs of looked-after children and young people.
• Ability to support risk assessments and manage challenging behaviour in a caring and consistent manner.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to write clear and accurate reports.
• Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
• Commitment to ongoing learning and professional development.
• Flexibility to work shifts, including evenings, weekends, bank holidays, and residential holidays.

Benefits

• Annual Leave: 27 day holiday plus 8 days bank holidays rising to 30 after 5 years, 33 days after 10 years.
• Generous pension scheme and death in service benefit up to 7% company pension contributions and up to 6 x basic salary death in service benefit.
• Occupational sick pay and family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
• Reward and Discount platform offering discounts at high street shops, travel, insurances etc.
• Eligibility to apply for Blue Light card.
• Proud to be a real living wage employer.
• Refer a friend scheme, be rewarded for recommending a friend to work with us.
• Comprehensive training and development opportunities, including apprenticeship qualifications.
• Long service awards including cash gifts and extra holiday.
• Promotion of Wellbeing across the organisation including Mental Health First Aiders offering wellbeing support from trained colleagues and free weekly yoga sessions in person or online.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme for you and adults at your home.

Applications are very welcome from all regardless of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race, sex, sexual orientation, trans status or socio‑economic background. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments for disabled people. We positively encourage applications from those with lived experience. If there is any part of your lived experience you want to keep confidential in some way, please talk to the Recruitment or HR shared service teams and we will do what we can do to support you.

The Together Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people we support and expects all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Safeguarding checks will be undertaken for the successful candidate in line with our safer recruitment policy, including an Enhanced DBS check (at no cost to yourself). This role will involve regulated activity. Time and a quarter at weekends and hours worked during the week between 11pm and 6am.

This role will expire 3rd July.