Children's Residential Support Worker (LD)

THE TOGETHER TRUST; Walkden; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 27 days + bank holidays

Generous pension scheme

Training and development opportunities

Wellbeing programmes

Job summary

The Together Trust in Walkden, Salford, is seeking a dedicated Children’s Residential Social Care Worker to join our team. You will support vulnerable children and young people with daily living, recreation, personal care, and community access, in a nurturing residential setting.

Hours are 37.5 per week on a 7-day rota with 2 days off. Safeguarding checks including Enhanced DBS will be conducted, and the role requires compassion, reliability, and a commitment to safeguarding and wellbeing.

Qualifications

• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team, taking the lead when required, maintaining 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.

Responsibilities

• Support the children and young people with their physical, emotional, and social needs with an emphasis on promoting their personal growth and independence.
• Prepare and assist the children and young people to fulfil the aims of their person-centred plan.
• Support children and young people with communication and work closely in a team with a passion to improve their lives whilst in our care.
• 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.
• Provide compassionate, nurturing care for children and young people in crisis with complex needs to help them move toward a brighter future.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

English proficiency

IT skills

ClearCare

Tools

ClearCare

Job description

Job Introduction

Have you ever wanted to make a difference to the lives of vulnerable Children and Young People? Our children’s home in Walkden, Salford provides residential care for Children and Young People with learning disabilities and/or autism associated conditions.

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.

You will be working in a caring home environment, nurturing, and supporting the young people we work with helping them to overcome the issues they are facing. You will work with the team and the Registered Manager to give the support that these Children and Young People deserve to help make life better for them.

The Together Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people that we support and expects all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Purpose of the role is for staff to support the individual with daily living, recreation, independence, personal care, communication and community access.

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).

We are looking for a Children’s Residential Social Care Worker who can complete the full range of tasks required.

Location Walkden, Salford

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

Salary £26,230annual salary, £13.45ph

Weekend pay of time and a quarter (£16.82ph)

Sleep in rate £107.60 per sleep shift (sleep in shifts being 11pm – 7am)

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

We also offer….

• Annual Leave27-day holiday plus 8 days bank holidays rising to 30 after 5 years, 33 days after 10 years
• Generous pension schemeand death in service benefit, up to 7% company pension contributions and up to 6 x basis salary death in service
• Occupational sick payand family friendly policies includingenhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
• Reward and Discount platformoffering 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, rewards for recommending a friend to work with us
• Comprehensive training and development opportunities, including apprenticeship qualifications
• Long service awardsincluding cash gifts and extra holiday.
• Promotion of Wellbeingacross the organisation including Mental Health First Aiders offering wellbeing support from trained colleague and free weekly yoga session in person or online
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programmefor you and adults at your home

We also provide a caring, supportive environment for all our employees, with a strong emphasis on a good work / life balance, and this something you can’t put a value on!

About the position….

• As a Children’s Residential Social Care Worker, 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.
• Working on your own initiative and as part of a team, you will be 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.
• We 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….

Do you have the skills we are looking for.

• 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.

Is this you? Are you ready to make a positive change?

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 currently do not provide sponsorship, but we welcome applications from those who have the right to work in the UK.

In order for the Trust to comply with the apprenticeship funding rules, it is a requirement of the role that the successful applicantmust 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.