Children's Residential Support Worker

Children’s Residential Support Worker
Scale 5 (£29,540 £32,061 inclusive of two increments for evening and weekend working)
37 Hours, Full Time
Permanent
Broadfields, The Crescent, Dial Park, Carr Brow

If you are interested in this role, please register to attend our recruitment open day on Tuesday 24 March, 10am 2pm at Stockroom, Merseyway Shopping Centre, SK1 1PR. We will be interviewing on the day.

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Your Role

As a Residential Support Worker, you’ll be a steady, trusted presence in a young person’s life helping them develop confidence, skills and independence. No two days are the same, but each one makes a difference.

Your role will include:

• Daily Care: Supporting children with routines like getting ready for school, mealtimes, and winding down at night.
• Emotional Support: Listening, talking, and helping children manage big feelings with patience and empathy.
• Education & Activities: Encouraging hobbies, new experiences and learning that build confidence and joy.
• Health & Wellbeing: Promoting healthy routines, attending appointments, and supporting medication when needed.
• Positive Behaviour Support: Helping children feel understood and supported, using de-escalation when required.
• Teamwork: Working closely with your colleagues to plan care, reflect together, and create consistent, nurturing homes.
• Recording: Keeping accurate notes on wellbeing, progress and achievements.
• Sleep-In Shifts: Offering calm, reassuring overnight support so children feel safe at all times.

This is deeply rewarding work challenging at times, but full of moments that remind you why you do it. You’ll help children believe in themselves and start to trust the adults around them again.

About You

Make a Real Difference and Grow With Us

Are you someone who naturally cares, brings energy to a team, and wants to make a genuine difference every day?
We’re looking for Residential Support Workers to join our friendly, growing teams across Stockport’s Children’s Homes.

You’ll be part of a service that’s proud of its work, ambitious for its young people, and committed to helping staff develop, grow and thrive. This is a role where your kindness, consistency and sense of humour really matter, because they help children feel safe, valued, and ready to build brighter futures.

About Us

We’re proud of our homes and we’re investing in the people who make them special.

When you join Stockport’s Residential Service, you can expect:

• Strong personal and team development, including ongoing training, reflection and career progression.
• Supportive colleagues who care about each other as much as the children.
• Competitive pay with evening, weekend and sleep-in enhancements.
• Flexible working patterns that fit around life.
• A chance to be part of a service that’s growing, improving and proud of its work.

Who We’re Looking For

You don’t lots of previous experience but you can evidence warmth, patience and the right values.

We’ll provide full training and support to help you succeed and grow in the role.

We’re looking for people who are:

• Caring, energetic and calm under pressure.
• Great at building relationships and working as part of a team.
• Able to work a mix of shifts including evenings, weekends and sleep-ins.
• Hold a Full UK driving licence.

Our values, Stockport, Team, Ambition, Respect, guide everything we do.

We believe that when staff feel supported and inspired, children thrive.

At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.

We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.

Next Steps

Want to find out more before applying?

Contact Alice Bodley for an informal chat:
Alice.bodley@stockport.gov.uk

The successful applicant’s appointment will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Stockport Council holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not currently qualify.

Please note that we have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers and ex-military personnel. As part of the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme you will therefore be guaranteed to be shortlisted for Assessment if you meet both the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria.

Find out if you meet the criteria here: https://www.greater.jobs/our-guaranteed-assessment-scheme

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