Support Worker – Childrens Emergency Placement Residential Care – Up to £31,735
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31st December 2025 | |
QUALIFICATIOONS (IF REQUIRED) |
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up to £31,735 |
As a Support Worker, you will be working at our 4 Bed Childrens home which offers emergency care and support for children and young people aged up to 18 years, who have mild to severe learning disabilities, physical disabilities, and sensory impairments.
This home is set up specifically to respond to the needs of children where they face a disruption of a placement, be that a breakdown at home, within a foster placement or a residential setting placement. It is to provide an extended break for children, as part of a plan to prevent further placement breakdown.
You will be working Early shifts, late shifts, long days and the rota does include alternate weekends. You will assist the management team in maintaining a safe and enabling environment that provides positive experiences to children and young people.
Duties
Provide a safe, caring and consistent home life for each young person.
To empower and enable young people to achieve their individual goals and full potential and strive towards building confidence and independence.
- To be a positive role model at all times.
- To ensure the respect and dignity of young people is maintained at all times.
- To ensure the delivery of appropriate care and support is given with sensitivity.
- To promote equality and diversity.
- To support and cooperate with the effective and efficient operation of the service.
- Ensure all health and educational needs of the young people are met.
- To encourage and develop the life skills necessary to support independence.
- To plan and undertake relevant leisure activities with young people.
- Undertake keyworker/co-keyworker responsibilities and duties where necessary.
- To adhere to all relevant policies, procedures, legislative and reporting requirements.
- To actively participate in continuing professional development.

Qualifications
Successful candidates will need to have or be willing to work towards:
- Level 3 Diploma for Residential Childcare or Level 3 Diploma for the Children and Young People’s Workforce (Social Care Pathway)
Experience
- Ideally you will also have experience of working with children and young people with moderate to severe learning disabilities and/or physical disabilities, Autism, ADHD, sensory impairment, and associated behavioural challenges and/or complex care needs, however we will consider candidates from EBD residential settings also.
- A background within SEN / Therapeutic Care and or Psychology would also be an advantage.
Skills/Abilities
- Strong communication and IT skills
- Experience as a support worker within a residential setting
- Experience of supporting people with learning disabilities on a moderate to sever level
- The ability to work effectively during high pressured situations
Qualities
- Caring and approachable
- Patient and welcoming
- Creative, Helpful and Reliable
Other Requirements
Company Values
- Personal development opportunities
- Treating you as an individual
- Publicly recognising your achievements
- Supporting you any way we can
- Placing you on a comprehensive training program
- A competitive salary

Benefits
We will reward you with a starting rate of between £12.30 - £13.20 per hr (salary based on competency based qualifying criteria), and regular overtime opportunities (paid between £14.80 - £15.70) to further increase earnings. In addition, we offer the following benefits package:
- Funded DBS and renewals
- Private health cashback plan
- Online GP, scans, physio, counselling and more
- Death in service, 2x salary
- Contributory pension
- Blue light retail discount card
- Annual leave purchase scheme
- Broad training and development
- Emergency days scheme
- Performance management programme and annual review to support progression
- Refer a friend reward scheme
- Annual superstar awards
- Additional annual leave days after 2 and 5 years of service
- Utilities comparison service
- Counselling line through the Care Workers Charity

Who is Progress?
We are an established provider of specialist services for children and young adults from 0-25, who have disabilities and specialist needs, including profound and multiple learning difficulties, severe learning difficulties, physical disability, sensory impairment, complex health care needs, acquired brain injury, and Autism. This encompasses a fostering agency, residential homes, supported living, a range of short break solutions, home and community support, preparation for independence and much more. As a values-led, family-owned business, we are not prepared to compromise on the quality and safety of our services, which are delivered following our owner’s ethos; ‘if it is not good enough for your own family, it is not good enough for our customers’..
We pride ourselves on enabling a more ordinary life to be experienced through extra-ordinary service delivery, with the people we support being the heart of everything we do. Everyone deserves a childhood and to move on into independence – this takes innovation every day as one size does not fit all where people are concerned!
Why work for Progress?
We asked some of our staff this question and the words they used in response included… friendly, further your career, support, extensive training, like a family, accepted, good team relationships, accommodating, flexibility, work ethic with colleagues, caring, shared passion, values aligned to your own, passion, not just a job; a career, gained skills, personal progression, support for staff; not just the people we care for, be part of a journey and the growth of the organisation, family feel, personal growth, opportunities, acknowledgement and recognition of efforts, not just a number, make a difference, feel appreciated, properly appraised annually with resulting outcomes, thorough induction, personal approach, no hierarchy, delivering on promises, high staff retention, respected as equals.
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