Residential Support Worker - Childrens Services

Actpcherbourg; Exeter; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 19,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Leadership support

Employee assistance

Birthday off

Referral bonus

Wellness allowance

Extra leave

Donation match

Fully funded qualifications

Blue Light Card

Company vehicle

Overtime pay

Job summary

360 CRS is hiring a Residential Support Practitioner to help create a safe, nurturing home for children aged 7–17. You’ll provide grounding, build trustful relationships, and support emotional development within a trauma-informed team.

Rota includes evenings, weekends, and sleep-ins; enhancements apply for overtime and bank holidays, plus a £50 sleep-in bonus. Role requires experience with children and young people, flexibility across a 24-hour rota, and 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 & community involvement.
• Champion safeguarding and positive practice.
• Work as part of a supportive, reflective team.
• Be flexible with working days to meet home needs, including evenings, weekends, and sleep-ins.

Skills

Experience with children

Willingness to work a varied 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:

At 360 CRS, we look after the people who look after others.

• Frontline leadership support— you’ll never be left alone to figure it out
• Employee Assistance Programmefor emotional & wellbeing support
• Your Birthday Off— every year, no questions asked
• Generous Referral Bonuswhen you help brilliant people join the team
• Wellness Allowanceto support your physical & mental health
• Extra Annual Leaveincreasing with service
• Donation Match Schemeto back causes you care about
• Fully Funded Qualifications(including Level 3 Residential Childcare Diploma)
• Blue Light Card Accessfor discounts & perks
• Access to a Company Vehiclewhen needed for work
• Enhanced Payfor 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 influencefor 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 peoplegrow, 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.