Children’s Residential Care
📍 Milton Keynes
💷 £16.75 per hour
📅 Full-time | Permanent
🌙 Waking Nights
We are recruiting a compassionate and reliable Waking Night Support Worker to provide safe, consistent overnight care for children and young people with emotional, behavioural and complex needs.
As a Waking Night Support Worker, you will:
* Provide safe, nurturing overnight care.
* Complete welfare checks and respond to incidents.
* Follow individual care plans and safeguarding procedures.
* Build positive relationships with children and young people.
* Support positive behaviour using trauma-informed approaches.
* Support emotional, behavioural and complex needs.
* Complete records, reports and handovers.
* Administer medication where trained and authorised.
* Work closely with the wider residential childcare team.
* Maintain a safe, clean and homely environment.
About You
* Caring, reliable and emotionally resilient.
* Calm and confident under pressure.
* Good written and verbal communication skills.
* Able to work independently on waking night shifts.
* Passionate about supporting children and young people.
* Understanding of safeguarding and child protection.
* Full UK driving licence.
Desirable: Experience in children’s residential care, supporting challenging behaviour, trauma-informed care/PBS, and Level 3 Residential Childcare or willingness to work towards it.
Interested?
Apply with your CV in Word format.
Right to Work: You must already have the right to work in the UK without sponsorship.
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Successful applicants will be subject to relevant safer recruitment and pre-employment checks
Salary description
£16.75 - £16.75 per hour