Residential Child Care Officer - Bridgelands

Birmingham Children's Trust; Tile Cross; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading children's support organization in Tile Cross is seeking passionate Child Care Officers to support children with learning disabilities and complex health conditions. Ideal candidates will have experience working with children, be motivated, and willing to work flexible hours including shifts and weekends. The organization offers a generous leave package, pension scheme, and access to extensive employee benefits. Join a supportive team and make a positive impact in the lives of children needing care and attention.

Benefits

30 days annual leave

Generous Pension Scheme

Employee benefits scheme

Qualifications

• Passionate about making a difference in the lives of children with learning disabilities.
• Enthusiastic and motivated individual with a caring nature.
• Available to work shifts, weekends, and bank holidays.

Responsibilities

• Support children in a residential setting.
• Engage in training and development opportunities.
• Help improve and grow services provided to children.

Skills

Experience working with children

Ability to work in a 24hr service

Commitment to safeguarding

Job description

Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of children with learning disabilities, autism, complex health conditions, and challenging behaviour?

We are seeking dedicated and experienced Child Care Officers to join our supportive and nurturing team. We also recognise the benefits of transferable skills particularly from Education or Social Work so please let us know what you are passionate about and what you could bring to our team.

We are actively investing in our residential portfolio to provide more placements for our children. Our existing homes are all rated Good . BCT have recently been awarded 'supportive employer of the year 2025'. A unique opportunity to join a great employer and dedicated workforce.

We have rated GOOD by Ofsted. This is a fantastic achievement for Birmingham Children's Trust, with many positive highlights focusing on areas including the quality of staff leadership, partnership working, safeguarding and corporate parenting.

About the role

Bridgelands is a small Children's Home supporting three children.We are looking for enthusiastic and highly motivated individuals who have experience of working with children. You will receive full support, ongoing training, and development opportunities.

This is an exciting time to join us, and we need the right talent to help us to continue to improve and grow our services.The Residential provision is a 24hr service, applicants for these roles will be expected to work shifts, some weekends, and bank holidays.

We have been rated as ‘Good’ by Ofsted, following a 2023 inspection. This is a fantastic achievement for Birmingham Children's Trust, with many positive highlights focusing on areas including the quality of staff leadership, partnership working, safeguarding and corporate parenting.

This is a hybrid role based in Birmingham so you must have the correct right-to-work documents to work in the UK. Sadly, we do not support those who require sponsorship.

Our offer to you

We offer a vast range of brilliant incentives to our BCT employees. Come join us to receive (not limited to) :

• A generous annual leave package of 30 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 5 years of service and 35 days after 10 years of service.
• Generous Pension Scheme.
• Full access to our amazing internal employee benefits scheme including, Occupational Health services, Rewards Schemes, Benefits discounts (including the Blue Light Card), Health & Fitness and Personal Wellbeing support and much more!
• Dedicated Practice Hub supporting continued training and career progression.

If you’re a passionate, experienced childcare professional ready to help shape young lives while driving high standards of care, we’d love to hear from you! Onboarding Process : Please note as part of our onboarding process, the successful candidate will be required undergo a series of background checks with Experian Including Experian DBS, Right to Work, and Digital ID verification.These areessentialpre-employment requirements.Sadly, we do not support those who require sponsorship.