Children's Residential Practitioner

**Job Introduction**:
**Fixed Term Contract until 31st March 2026**

**Full and Part Time Hours Available**

**About the Home**

Our home is a specialist short break centre based in Keighley that benefits children and young people, and their families. Children are happier and healthier and develop greater independence skills from their experience at our home. We offer a safe a secure place that looks at meeting the individual needs of all that use the service. The short breaks are fun and fulfilling. We aim to enhance the quality of life and contribute to a happy child and young adulthood.

We care for children and young people aged 5-18yrs old with learning, physical or sensory disabilities and complex health needs and offer residential specialist short breaks for children and young people who need a break from their families/carers. This can be an overnight stay, tea time stay or during the weekends and school holiday we offer day time stays.

**About the role**

Bring your experience working with children and young people with complex health needs and disabilities to our home and help us to create childhoods full of positive experiences and happy memories.

The children and young people in our care have complex health needs and disabilities, making it vital that we provide them with a secure and stable environment, as part of our experienced, committed and compassionate team.

We’re looking for committed individuals who are passionate about putting children and young people at the heart of everything they do.

This role involves shifts, weekends, sleep ins and bank holidays on a rota basis.

**What our children want**
- Warm and caring personality
- Playing with them
- Watching television and doing any hobbies that we like
- You won’t see the role as a job and will instead see it our home that we live in

**What our children say**
- “I love to go out to have a pamper day getting my nails and eyebrows done”
- “I enjoy dedicated time with those who care for me especially going for a walk and getting a Starbuck’s. We have a good chat about what’s going well for me or anything I may need support”
- I love going to the farm and horse riding, I had never ridden a horse before”
- “I loved the caravan as it was my first ever holiday and it was very nice. I especially loved the kids disco and playing in the arcades.”
- “I love getting my bedtime stories read to me at nighttime.”

**What we expect from you**
- Provide a loving, safe and positive environment for our children living with us.
- Be instrumental in creating a positive future for the children living with us from a social, educational and an individual approach.
- Assist with daily activities such as getting ready for the day, including school and assisting with homework where possible.
- Thinking creatively about activities that our children can get involved with and assisting with bringing this to life.
- Being aspirational in relation to plans for children.
- Support our children with their social and emotional needs.
- Experience working with young children with complex health needs and disabilities.
- Hold natural empathy and a caring attitude towards the children that lives with us and adopt a family mentality within the home.

**You will need**
- Ideally you will have a Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare or an equivalent:

- Level 3 in Children & Young Peoples Workforce
- Level 3 Caring for Children and Young People
- Level 3 Health and Social Care
- Experience of working in a challenging and changing environment being adaptable and resilient.
- Experience of working in a Children’s Home or health care setting where there are extensive transferable skills for working with children with complex health needs and disabilities, OR in the last year, be able to demonstrate experience of working with children and young people who have emotional/behavioural/complex health needs and physical/learning disabilities either in a paid or voluntary capacity in a children’s home, social care setting, a school, youth service, or any other service or provision designed to support children and young people.
- Experience in contributing to the maintenance of administrative records
- Experience of working within a team setting

**What you can expect from us**
- The opportunity to give children and young people a childhood that they deserve
- Enhancements for sleep ins, waking nights, bank holiday are paid in addition to salary
- Regular supervision to support development
- Generous employer contributions in a Local Government Pension Scheme
- Competitive salary and pay progression structure
- Real living wage as the minimum rate of pay
- Supportive carer and parental policies
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Access to Occupational Health and confidential counselling services
- Supportive staff networks
- Access to Blue Light Card discounts
- Professional development and support to work towards a qualification in Residential Childcare
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