Residential Childcare Worker - Casual


Company:	North Somerset Council
Salary:	£32,061 - £34,434
Hours:	Part-time
Location:	Weston-super-Mare, BS23 1UJ
Working pattern:	On-site
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	31 Jul 2026
Closing date:	14 Aug 2026

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Summary

Provide Family centred practice: Provide high-quality residential care for children during short stays, ensuring a warm, safe, and nurturing environment.

Empower Families: Deliver intensive, 12-week outreach interventions to parents and carers, using a strength-based approach to build family resilience.

Provide and Practice Trauma-Informed Care: Use your understanding of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) to build deep, restorative relationships with young people.

Collaborate: Work as part of a multi-agency team alongside schools, health professionals, and social workers to ensure a unified plan for every child.

Key Responsibilities:

Residential Care Duties

Direct Care: Provide 24-hour care to children and young people within the residential home, meeting their physical, emotional, and social needs, this work is based on a 3 week shift rota.

Home Environment: Share in practical domestic activities to maintain a warm, safe, and nurturing environment, including the preparation of nutritious meals.

Placement Planning: Contribute to the development and review of Residential Placement plans, behaviour support and risk management plans and step down plans whilst working within a dynamic multi-agency team.

Provide outreach & family support

Intensive Intervention: Work directly with parents and carers in their own homes to provide advice to families with complex needs at risk of breakdown.

Caseload Management: Manage a personal caseload of families, ensuring the "child’s voice" is captured in all assessments and planning.

Crisis Prevention: Actively work to prevent the breakdown of care arrangements for children and being part of the duty rota that covers early morning, evenings and weekend crisis support.

Provide Trauma-Informed practice and care.

ACEs Awareness: Apply a deep understanding of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) to all interactions, recognizing how past trauma manifests in current behaviours.

Strength-Based Support: Use a strength-based model to empower families, focusing on building resilience and protective factors.

Relational Safety: Establish and maintain high-quality, consistent relationships with children who may have experienced significant trauma.

Each residential childcare worker will have a lead area of responsibility relevant to the role.

Contact Information

For further information about the role, please contact Carrie Worth, Registered Manager, at carrie.worth@n-somerset.gov.uk

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