Senior Residential Practitioners

Salary

£35,412 - £38,220 plus excellent benefits.

Contractual hours

37

Basis

Full time

Region

Rotherham

Job category/type

Social Care

Date posted

10/11/2025

Job reference

REQ21617

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Benefits

Directorate: Children and Young People's Services

Permanent, full time, 37 hours per week.

Salary will be determined dependent on experience and qualifications. Progression through the salary bands will be subject to individual development and assessment within the role.

Closing date – 7th December 2025.

Shortlisting date – 10th December 2025.

Interview date – W/C 15th December 2025.

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

Are you an experienced, solution oriented, systemic working, child focused practitioner, keen to work alongside partners and particularly our children and young people to deliver a new model of residential intervention in Rotherham? This post could be for you…

Following a full service review our Children and Young People's Service are now recruiting for Senior Children's Residential Practitioners.

These new posts will play a key role in the development and delivery of a range of in-house residential provision for Rotherham's children and young people.

Rotherham Council has made a strategic decision to make a significant investment in children's residential services. This will ensure more of our looked after children are placed in Rotherham, close to their local communities, family, and schools.

We are using current best practice and evidence-based models to develop a range of new children`s homes including 2 and 4 bed children's homes, emergency accommodation and solo provision for some of our most complex children and young people.

We are particularly looking for Senior Children's Residential Practitioners who are keen to be part of setting up and managing new homes and staff teams and have previous experience of working in specialist solo provision, mental health residential settings, crisis accommodation and with children and young people with sensory, ASD, mental health needs and who have suffered significant trauma.

Senior Children's Residential Practitioners in Rotherham will:

• Promote, safeguard, and protect the welfare of looked after children across the borough
• Apply agreed evidence based therapeutic and behavioural management approaches and practice models
• Provide opportunities for children and young people to influence the decisions that affect them and the service they receive
• Work systemically and as part of team to ensure a joined-up service centred on the child
• Manage and adapt rota arrangements to ensure that children and young people have safe levels of support.
• Support the management of staff groups providing supervision, training, and inductions for new staff
• Engage in the running of the home including activities, meals, personal care, recording, report writing and administration of medication in line with the council's policy.
• Participate in and audit the completion of relevant records and reports
• Provide and promote a safe, stimulating and nurturing physical environment.

Key benefits of working at Rotherham Council's Children and Young People's service are:

• Strong support and clear direction from Managers
• Extensive training programme, to develop and professionalise our residential practitioners. This includes the Rotherham Family Approach incorporating Signs of Safety and Restorative Practice as well as full training from our "in house" Therapeutic Crisis Intervention Team.
• Residential services that have access to and work closely with our high quality in house therapeutic service
• Innovative Edge of Care Services and a strong Early Help offer which is reducing demand and supporting professionals to think systemically and develop creative options to support children and young people
• The prioritisation of Looked After Children for CAMHS assessment and intervention
• The opportunity to make a real difference to the children, young people, and families
• Investment in you as a practitioner involving support, supervision, training and opportunity for professional development and progression.
• Local Authority pension scheme and a generous annual leave entitlement plus sleep-in allowances and enhanced rates for unsocial hours and weekends/bank holidays.

About you

We are seeking inspirational, resilient and child focused Senior Residential Practitioners who are committed to:

• Developing their skills and practices in order to provide an outstanding residential service to children and young people
• Promoting and being part of a learning and coaching culture
• Supporting and caring for some of our most complex children and young people, at times in solo provision
• Working evening, weekend, and sleep in shifts as part of the residential team.

Our vision is for the children and families of Rotherham to routinely experience and describe the services they receive from us, as outstanding and we intend to do that by putting the child first in everything we do.

By being part of our residential teams, you will play a crucial role in developing skills and practice and our collective commitment to an ethos of excellence, integrity, trust, and transparency. Joining us as well grow provides you an opportunity to be involved and influence the service design and development of practice in line with best practice and evidence-based approaches.

About Yorkshire

Rotherham and the wider South Yorkshire region is a great place to live and a stone's throw from some of the UK's finest towns and cities and is home to some of the most beautiful countryside in Britain. Easy to reach from Sheffield or Leeds, there are plenty of places to see, things to do and property is excellent value for money - all within a 2-hour train journey from London.

If you have any questions regarding these opportunities and or would like a conversation about these new roles, please email our service managers or

These posts involve working with children and therefore if successful you will be required to apply for a disclosure of criminal records check at an enhanced level. Further information about the Disclosure Scheme can be found at

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview. For further information, please visit our website.

Until 31st March 2026 employees paid at Band D and above are subject to a temporary pay reduction of 1.15% spread out by means of a monthly deduction from each pay period over the full financial year. In recognition of implementing this temporary measure, those who experience a pay reduction will be awarded three additional days leave (pro rata for part-time).

Confirmation of this appointment is also subject to a medical assessment.