Children's Residential Support Worker (Complex Needs)

Together Trust Centre; Cheadle Hulme; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 27 days + 8 BH

Pension scheme 4%

Sick pay

Blue Light Card eligibility

Death in service 6x

Living wage employer

Refer a friend

Training & apprenticeships

Wellbeing programs

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

The Together Trust in Central Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, is seeking 3 full-time Children’s Residential Social Care Workers. You will support children and young people with their physical, emotional, and social needs, promoting growth and independence within a person-centred plan.

You’ll work across a residential team on a 7-day rota, with weekend duties and the option to develop through extensive training and apprenticeship opportunities.

Qualifications

• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
• Good understanding of English and IT, with ability to complete paperwork and care plans.
• Willingness to engage with residents with complex needs.

Responsibilities

• Provide support for children and young people with physical, emotional, and social needs.
• Promote personal growth and independence through person-centred plans.
• Work individually and in a team to prepare and assist residents to meet aims.
• Support communication using aids and maintain records for care plans.
• Deliver compassionate care during crises and assist long-term wellbeing.
• Complete daily IT documentation and medication administration administration as required.

Skills

Communication skills

Teamwork

English proficiency

IT skills

Tools

Clearcare

Job description

The Together Trust is one of the North West’s leading charities, 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.

We have 3 full-time vacancies for Children’s Residential Social Care Worker who can complete the full range of tasks required.

Location and Hours

Location: Central Cheadle Hulme, Stockport

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, on a 7-day rota with 2 non-working days each week.

Salary and Pay

Salary: £26,230 annual salary (£13.45ph) Weekends paid at time and a quarter (£16.82ph) Sleep in rate - £100.80 per sleep.

Benefits

• Annual leave - 27 days’ holiday plus 8 bank holidays, rising to 30 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years.
• Generous pension scheme - a minimum company pension contribution of 4%.
• Occupational sick pay and family-friendly policies, including enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
• Reward and Discount platform - offering discounts on high street shopping, travel and insurance.
• Generous death in service benefit - up to 6 times basic salary.
• Eligibility to apply for a 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 - vouchers and extra holiday.
• Promotion of wellbeing across the organisation, including Mental Health First Aiders offering wellbeing support from trained colleagues and a free weekly yoga session, in person or online.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme for you and adults in your household.
• Inclusive networks for colleagues to join if they’d like (Disability & Neurodiversity Action Group, Race Equality Network, Proud Together (LGBTQ+ group), Together for Men, Women Together).
• Providing a caring, supportive environment for all our employees, with a strong emphasis on a good work/life balance.

The Together Trust was ranked in the Financial Times Best Employers list 2026.

About the Position

• You will work as part of a residential childcare team providing support for the children and young people with their physical, emotional, and social needs with an emphasis on promoting their personal growth and independence.
• You will work on your own initiative and as part of a team, to preparing and assisting the children and young people to fulfil the aims of their person-centred plan.
• You will support the children and young people with communication and work closely in a team that has a passion to improve their lives whilst in our care.
• You will work flexibly to undertake the full range of duties in a well-planned way that respects and values the children and young people as individuals.
• You will provide compassionate, nurturing care for the children and young people who are in crisis and have complex needs, supporting them to move on from a difficult past to a brighter future.
• The young people use a range of communication aids including verbal, pictures, now and next cards, schedules, choice boards, sign language. There is an amount of admin of medication. Additional training is provided for all support requirements.

About you

• Good communication and interpersonal skills. You’ll be expected to liaise with other staff, parents/carers, and professionals.
• Am ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team, taking the lead when required, maintaining & encouraging open and honest communication.
• You must have a good understanding of English and IT skills and be happy to complete all the paperwork and care plans to a good quality. Which includes daily recording on IT systems (Clearcare) and other records such as incident reports.
• An enthusiastic, reliable and outgoing person with a level of maturity, skills and interests which can be utilised to engage the young people.

This service is regulated by Ofsted therefore all employees must be over the age of 22 years at the time of joining the service. 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.

We currently do not provide sponsorship, but we welcome applications from those who have the right to work in the UK. We may remove this advert should we find the successful candidate prior to the closing date therefore early applications are encouraged.

In order for the Trust to comply with the apprenticeship funding rules, it is a requirement of the role that the successful applicant must be able to evidence that (1) they have the right to work in the UK without additional approval for more than 20 hours each week throughout the year and (2) they have an eligible residency status for the purposes of the apprenticeship funding rules. In most cases this will mean that the individual needs to show that they have been ''ordinarily resident'' in particular countries (including the UK) at least 3 years before the start of the apprenticeship.

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 to support you.