Residential Child Care Worker | East Lancashire

Lancashire County Council; Burnley; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Blues and Twos Credit Union

Blue Light Card

Discounts at local retailers

Job summary

Lancashire County Council is recruiting Residential Child Care Workers to support and care for children aged 11–17 in homes across East Lancashire, including Clitheroe, Burnley and Padiham.

Role involves living at the home, assisting with daily tasks, and providing 1:1 support to children who cannot live with their families. Rotas include days, evenings, weekends and sleep-in shifts.

Qualifications

• Residential Child Care Workers provide care and support to young people.

Responsibilities

• As a Residential Child Care Worker, you would work from a children's home where children and young people aged between 11 years and 17 years live.
• You would eat and sleep at the home with the children and undertake basic household tasks – cleaning, cooking, shopping.
• You would listen and engage children in 1:1 work and liaise with social workers, schools, police and health workers to meet needs.
• Working on a rota basis with days, evenings, weekends and sleep-in shifts.

Job description

Description | Salary £28,142 - £32,061 Per annum | Permanent, Full Time 37 hours per week | East Lancashire |

Description | Salary £28,142 - £32,061 Per annum | Permanent, Full Time 37 hours per week | East Lancashire | Visa Sponsorship – this role is not able to provide visa sponsorship | Residential Child Care Worker | Location: East Lancashire – Clitheroe, Burnley & Padiham | Salary: Starting Salary £28,142, plus enhancements*

• Enhancements payable for weekend work, shift work and sleep-in duty payment

Who are we … Our Children's Residential Service are expanding with the introduction new Children's Homes, and changes to existing homes across the County. This means that we have a number of exciting opportunities for passionate, dedicated individuals, to join us as Residential Child Care Workers, at homes based in Padiham, Burnley & Clitheroe.

As a Residential Service we hold very strong views and beliefs that our children deserve the very best care and support that we can offer. We pride ourselves in 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 person are supported to develop in all areas of life.

About The Role...

As a Residential Child Care Worker, you would work from a children's home where children and young people aged between 11 years and 17 years live. Residential Child Care Workers eat and sleep at the home with the children and young people and undertake basic household tasks – cleaning, cooking, shopping.

Our children cannot live safely with their parent(s) or family, for a variety of reasons such as adverse childhood experience or trauma. Residential Child Care 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.

Please note, this role will involve working on a Rota Basis, working a mix of Days, Evenings, Weekends and sleep-in shifts.

What you can 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 we are 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: 30 September 2026

Interview Dates: Weekly Basis, every Wednesday in County Hall Preston

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.

If you are applying for a part time position, please note the salary quoted is full time equivalent, the salary received will be paid on a pro–rata basis.

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