Witherslack Group
Senior Children's Residential Support Worker
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Senior Children's Residential Support Worker
**Children’s Home Shift Leader – £36,231 - £40,640
Exemplifying those huge small victories
Working in our Children’s Homes means being a vital part of a young person’s daily life — from celebrating their successes to providing strong support during challenges. Our Shift Leaders play a unique role in helping our young people regain precious moments of childhood while guiding them towards becoming confident, well-rounded adults.
Each day brings rewards, challenges, and meaningful connections. By fostering stability, ensuring smooth operations, and inspiring our team, you become part of an environment where even the smallest changes create lasting, positive impact.
What You’ll Do
You’ll thrive in a setting where your support, leadership, and authenticity transform lives. Our homes accommodate young people with social, emotional, mental health needs and work towards enriching every child’s experience through:
- Empowering small, everyday wins — celebrating progress, whether it’s a calm morning or a quiet moment of connection
- Providing a consistent, nurturing presence to help our young people feel safe and valued
- Managing everyday care and crises with compassion and resilience
- Collaborating with the wider team to ensure high standards in scholarship, pastoral support, and operational excellence
- Occasionally deputising for Team Leaders to sustain a well-supported, seamless service
At its core, this role combines deep personal connection with influential leadership, ensuring that every young person under our care feels seen, understood, and encouraged.
What We’re Looking For
This is about gut instincts as much as professional experience. We want professionals who care intrinsically and possess:
✓ A ‘can-do’ attitude —indenpendent, resourceful, and eager to help fellow team members and young people thrive. ✓ Empathy and an authentic commitment — you mute mearly ‘doing the job’ and genuinely connect with our young people’s distinct challenges. ✓ Resilience — challenges are part of the process, but you respond with patience, positivity, and emotional steadiness. ✓ A valid UK driving license (held for a minimum of 12 months) to enable safe, reliable access to our homes.
We pay potential, not experience. Here’s a head-start:
- No qualifications? Don’t worry! We’ll fund and fully support the completion of our Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare if you don’t already hold it.
- An opportunity to tremendously impact others with real, tangible outcomes.
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Starting Out at Witherslack Group
When you join us, we’ll kickstart your ** residential support journey** through the groundbreaking **Care Academy—a 4-week rigorous, hands-on, off-the-job program. Guided by our most experienced team leaders, you’ll gain the skills, confidence, and safety protocols needed to make a head-start in childcare.
Why This Role Thrives at Witherslack Group
At WG, our team works towards a purpose— working to ensure every young person accessed community and classroom with meaningful futures. After all, their small victories might become theirs to remember forever.
We set the highest standards in specialist education and social care. Most of our leaders started at the Residential Support Worker level and rose through the ranks— including our trusted Aspire Programme— designed to develop the future managers of the sector.
Our commitment is driven by evidence: we are the highest Ofsted-rated provider of semi-residential and residential support services in the UK.
What We Offer
Competitive Earn
- Base Salary: £36,231 to £40,640 (assuming good attendance and commitment)
- Sleep Ins: Up to 4 per month @ £80 (≈ £3,840/year bonus)
- Attendance Allowance: £1,400 per year if you exceed attendance expectations
Development & Progression
- Care Academy Training: A 4-week radical, immersive, paid training programme supported by WG mentors.
- Structured Progression: Many senior leaders started here as Residential Support Workers— we value training and long-term commitment.
- Aspire Programme: Our in-house leadership-cum-growth scheme to elevate career potential.
Work & Wellness
- 7 weeks’ paid holiday (over and above UK minima) to recharge after your hard work.
- A flexible benefits package where you determine pension contributions, holiday buy/sell, and enhanced life insurance to suit your lifestyle.
- Wellbeing support: wid)}{ access to trusted employee assistance programs, wellness coaching, perks and partner discounts
- Medical Cover: Reimburse opticians/dentists bills when they arise.
- Exclusive discounts on high-street brands through our partnerships.
- Beautiful settings: from modern homes to purpose-built care facilities, WG designs environments in which everyone feels valued.
- Referral Scheme: Earn £1,000 per qualified team member you recommend successfully.
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Our Approach to Workplace Belonging
Show up as yourself. We celebrate diversity, want differences—** because yours will deeply benefit the lives of the diverse children, psychologically, neurodivergently, and culturally we work with.
- Lived experience is welcome — if neurodiversity, ADHD or social emotional needs resonate more deeply in your story, embrace it. We build teams where everyone’s background and skills enrich the atmosphere.
- Neurodiversity is central to our core values.
- Our young people are loud in their varied ways— that singular authenticity transforms lives; we’ve led the way in making accessibility and inclusion non-negotiable.
Safeguarding Commitment
- All roles require enhanced DBS check at no cost to you.
- To promote the safety and progress of our young people, the role is contingent upon ensuring highest standards and full compliance.
Equal Opportunities
We’re a legally compliant, equal opportunities employer. Applications are encouraged from any background.
We commit to supporting equitable recruitment processes and accommodate adjustments for candidates throughout any adjustments needed to make civilization significant.
As an organisation making ‘small, huge’ changes, our team thrives on this genesis—not just for us, but for every traveller brought up into your care. Ready for a role where your passion becomes part of their story? Our group welcomes and values anyone invested in lifelong well-being, equality, diversity, and resilience.
A Career in Care with Witherslack Group
We’re more than best-in-class ratings—we’re people dedicated to empathic, holistic growth. Talent behould both care and connect rapid in a way that aligns with our principles.
Leave us inspired— because every aspect of your work here is about attempting brilliant, small changes for lives that will remember answers.
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Write the next chapter of their self-belief—become an indispensable leader in a world of ‘huge small victories.’
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