Residential Support Worker - Childrens Services

360 CRS; Exeter; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 20,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Birthday Off

Referral Bonus

Wellness Allowance

Extra Annual Leave

Donation Match Scheme

Blue Light Card Access

Company Vehicle

Overtime Payment Enhancements

Job summary

360 CRS is seeking a Residential Support Practitioner to join our Children’s Services team. You’ll help make a house feel like a home—safe, nurturing, and full of possibility.

You’ll build meaningful relationships, support emotional development, routines, learning, and community involvement, while championing safeguarding. You’ll work a varied rota, including evenings, weekends, and sleep-ins, with a full UK driving licence.

Qualifications

• Experience working with children and young people.
• Willingness to work a varied rota (24-hour shifts).
• Full UK driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Be a positive, grounding influence for young people.
• Build meaningful relationships based on trust.
• Support emotional development, independence, routines, learning and community involvement.
• Champion safeguarding and positive practice.
• Work as part of a supportive, reflective team.

Skills

Experience with children/young people

Flexible rota

Full UK driving licence

Job description

Residential Support Practitioner - Children's Services

£13.50ph - £14.00ph (DOE) + £50 bonus per sleep-in, dependent on experience

Enhancement rates available for overtime and bank holidays.

About Us

We are a growing, forward-thinking children's residential care organisation with homes across the Southwest, London, and a brand-new multi-home provision in Durham. Our mission is powerful and clear: to help children aged 7-17 rebuild trust, confidence, and hope.

We work with young people who have experienced loss, instability, or trauma. We don't define them by their past - we support them to step into their potential. Using trauma-informed, PACE-based practice, we create warm, stable homes where children feel safe, valued, and encouraged to grow. This is meaningful work. This is change you can see happen.

Benefits & Perks

• Frontline leadership support - you'll never be left alone to figure it out
• Employee Assistance Programme for emotional & wellbeing support
• Your Birthday Off - every year, no questions asked
• Generous Referral Bonus when you help brilliant people join the team
• Wellness Allowance to support your physical & mental health
• Extra Annual Leave increasing with service
• Donation Match Scheme to back causes you care about

Fully Funded Qualifications (including Level 3 Residential Childcare Diploma)

• Blue Light Card Access for discounts & perks
• Access to a Company Vehicle when needed for work
• Enhanced Pay for Overtime & Festival Periods

The Role

You'll help make a house feel like a home - safe, nurturing, and full of possibility. Your days will include:

• Being a positive, grounding influence for young people
• Building meaningful relationships based on trust
• Supporting emotional development, independence, routines, learning & community involvement
• Championing safeguarding and positive practice
• Working as part of a supportive, reflective team

You will be flexible with your working days to meet the needs of the home, including evenings, weekends, and sleep-ins.

Who You Are

If you're ready to help young people grow, heal, and believe in themselves, we'll give you everything you need to succeed.

Essential Skills

• Experience working with children and young people.
• Willingness to work a varied rota (24-hour shifts).
• Full UK driving licence.

Desirable

• Experience working with children and young people with SEND or learning disabilities (LD).
• Children's residential care experience.

Our Safeguarding Promise

Safety is at the heart of everything we do. All roles require safer recruitment checks, enhanced DBS clearance, and ongoing safeguarding training.