Nights Residential Child Care Worker | North Lancashire

Lancashire County Council; Morecambe; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free training courses

Funded qualifications

Employee support

Job summary

Lancashire County Council is seeking Night Residential Child Care Workers to join our North Lancashire homes, covering Lancaster and surrounding areas.

In the night shift you will listen to children, support their feelings, ensure the home is secure, and liaise with social workers and health professionals to meet each child’s needs.

We offer a thorough induction, funded qualifications, and extensive training with access to staff benefits and discounts.

Qualifications

• Passion to support children and families.
• Team player with a collaborative mindset.
• Forward thinking to improve practice.
• Values aligned with child welfare principles.

Responsibilities

• Listen and engage children in 1:1 work around feelings and behaviours.
• Link with social workers, schools, police and health workers to meet needs.
• Keep the home secure and supportive during night hours.
• Provide a friendly presence and respond to issues as they arise.

Skills

Passion

Team player

Creativity

Values-aligned

Job description

| Salary £29,071 - £33,119 Per Annum | Full Time, 37 Hours Per Week | North Lancashire | International Sponsorship – this role is not open to international sponsorship

Nights Residential Child Care Worker

Residential Services

Location: North Lancashire - Covering homes based in Lancaster & surrounding areas

Please note as part of this role you may be expected to work at homes across our North Lancashire Region.

(Enhanced pay rates apply for night and weekend work, including a 25% uplift for hours worked between 11pm and 8am (subject to a start time before 6am). These enhancements do not apply to shift workers. Weekend work may attract up to 33% additional pay when part of the contractual working week.)

About Us

Our Children's Residential Service is expanding, and we have exciting opportunities within X due the opening of a new home in the area.

As a Residential Service, we hold strong views and beliefs that our children deserve the very best care and support. We pride ourselves on developing positive, meaningful, and lifelong relationships with our children. With an emphasis on working creatively, we promote lots of fun activities for our children inside and outside the homes and ensure that our children and young people are supported to develop in all areas of life.

Could you work in a children's home as part of our night care team?

Our children are not able to live safely with their parent(s) or family, usually due to adverse childhood experiences and trauma. Residential Support Workers listen and engage our children in 1:1 work around feelings, emotions, and behaviours, and link with other professionals, such as social workers, schools, police, and health workers to ensure our children's needs are met.

Night staff have a significant and important role in our children's homes and work through the night whilst staff are asleep. Night staff are responsible for ensuring the home is secure during the night and, should the children wake, that they have a friendly face to support them and deal with any issues.

What do our children want from you?

• I would like someone like me who has time to listen instead of being behind a locked door.
• I would like someone who listens to me but also takes action and who I can have a laugh with – they also need to be able to make nice food.
• I would like someone who spends time with me.

What can you expect from us?

We have an ambitious, confident, and motivated management team who are experienced, supportive, and keen to help you learn and grow. We have over 50 free courses for you to learn new things, and even have funded qualifications we can support you with obtaining, up to degree level, should this be something that interests you.

We have a detailed induction programme specifically designed to cover all elements of the role, so that you have all the tools and knowledge ready to get going. For all permanent staff, we will provide a monthly 1:1 reflective space with managers, a comprehensive Employee Support Offer, and lots of opportunity to network with other professionals that support children.

As an organisation, we offer a wide range of staff benefits including access to our "Blues and Twos Credit" Union, Membership of Blue Light Card, and various discounts at local retailers.

What are we looking for?

• Passion: Thinking creatively to ensure that our children are supported to achieve their aspirations (no matter how big or small) will need to be top of your list! We are looking for passionate practitioners (irrelevant of length of experience) who truly care and want to make a difference to children, young people, and families.
• Challenge: Some days will be tough, for our children, for you, and for your colleagues - we're after someone who is dedicated and committed, and who will always go that extra mile for our children (even on the bad days). Working as part of a close professional team is really important and you will need to be a team player to get through those tough times.
• Forward thinking: We are an expanding service with big ideas and aspirational views. We are looking for workers who can join our team and join us on this exciting journey, making contributions to help shape and inform the future of the service for our children.
• Values: We are looking for someone who has values aligned to those that are integral to our service and our organisation - supportive, innovative, respectful, and collaborative.

Closing Date: 31 October 2026 Interviews: Held on a weekly basis, every Wednesday

The post you are applying for is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013). If successful you will be required to apply to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) for a 'disclosure'. Further information can be found on the 'Our Recruitment Process' tab.

You will be required to provide a car for use in connection with the duties of this post and must be insured for business use. However, we may consider you if you cannot drive because of a disability.

We reserve the right to close down a vacancy early, before the closing date, if we receive sufficient applications.

Local Government Reorganisation

The Government has confirmed that local government across Lancashire will be reorganised, with the current 15 councils being replaced by four new unitary councils covering North, South, East and West Lancashire from April 2028.

If you are successful in your application, you will initially join Lancashire County Council. However, as part of the planned transition, your employment will transfer to one of the new unitary councils from April 2028, subject to the implementation of the reorganisation and relevant employment legislation.

Through out this period, our focus remains on delivering excellent services to our communities. By joining us now, you'll play an important role in shaping the future of local government and helping to build a strong new organisation that will serve residents for years to come.