Residential Support Worker

Salary: £26,000 per year

Action for Children

Assistant Residential Worker – Waking Nights

Salary: £26,000per year, pro rata (dependent on qualification and experience)

Contract/Hours: Permanent, part-time. 30 hours a week. Waking Nights Monday – Friday 10pm – 9am/ Weekends and School holidays 10pm – 10am 

Location: Bath, Somerset.

Perks: Annual leave of 29 days (pro-rata) PLUS public holidays, flexible maternity, adoption and paternity packages, annual staff awards, 7% employer contribution pension scheme, employee discount portal with all your favourite brands, check out more on our careers portal. 

(midnight) if we receive a high number of applications, we may have to close earlier than advertised.

We’re thrilled that you’re considering a career with Action for Children so here’s what you need to know…. 

About Us 

At Action for Children, we believe that every child should have a safe and happy childhood. Last year, we helped more than 600,000 children and families across the UK. We work to ensure their voices are heard, and campaign to bring lasting change to their lives. 

About the Role: 

Beaumonds is a short break service for children and young people aged between 8 and 18 with disabilities. We focus on providing our service users a fun and stimulating short break in a safe, friendly and homely environment.

Beaumonds home is located in a scenic area with great access into Bath. The building has undergone refurbishment in July 2021. This has significantly improved the internal facilities, including a new kitchen and wet room!

We have an extremely dedicated and professional staff team that work in a kind, thoughtful, sensitive and caring way, their aim is to keep the children safe whilst providing them activities and events they otherwise would not be able to experience. The staff team are committed to the children and put them first in all of their planning processes. Their aim is also to build positive relationships with families, young people and other multi agency professionals surrounding the young person so that a professionally informed support package surrounds the young person enabling their individual growth and development.

As an Assistant Residential Worker, you’ll be: 

Building and maintaining professional working relationships with children young people and their families by providing emotional, social and practical support to young people who can display challenging emotional and social difficulties.

Establishing relationships and links within the community to assist the child, young person and their family.

Supporting children and young people in their personal care, administration of medication and clinical procedures in line with organisational policies and procedures

Supporting young people in becoming independent and communicating their needs.

Ensuring young people have a positive experience.

Helping young people reach their full potential. 

What You’ll Bring:

Our job description for the Assistant Residential Worker outlines the requirements of the role but the ‘must-haves’ are: 

Requirement to undertake a fully funded qualification in Children, Young People and Families within two years of taking up post.

Willingness to participate in relevant on the job or off site training.

Providing support and care, and being sensitive to the needs of others.

Writing notes and recording information.

Ability to communicate effectively.

Ability to manage difficult situations within remit of job.

Ability to plan and organise work once directed.

Ability to use Microsoft office packages.

Working here is so much more than a job. Whether this is a career change for you or the next step in your journey, we’d love to hear from you. 

If you need any help with your application please contact Sam Richardson via email

We work together to reach our vision of safe and happy childhoods. A diverse workforce enriches the lives of the children and young people we work with and we welcome applications from everyone. We value and celebrate our differences and as an inclusive workplace we want everyone to be themselves. 

We are committed to safer recruitment practices to protect our service users; therefore, all applicants are expected to have an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding best-practice. 

We can’t wait to hear from you – stay safe and happy.