Senior Residential Worker

The Training Brokers Ltd; Wales; On-site; GBP 25,000 - GBP 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading care organization in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Children’s Residential Worker to provide support for a young person with complex needs in a therapeutic environment. The role involves ensuring compliance with regulations, implementing care plans, and facilitating transitions to long-term placements. Requirements include a QCF level 3 qualification in Health & Social Care, leadership skills, and proficiency in Welsh. This position promises a rewarding opportunity to make a significant impact in a child's life.

Benefits

Employee benefits

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Must be qualified to QCF level 3 in Health & Social Care.
• Experience in child and young person therapeutic support is essential.
• Must have excellent communication skills, including Welsh.

Responsibilities

• Provide care and leadership to a child/young person with complex needs.
• Ensure compliance with Regulatory Requirements.
• Implement care plans and coordinate with professionals.
• Facilitate transitions to long-term placements.
• Respond flexibly to service changes.

Skills

Welsh language proficiency

Leadership

Therapeutic care

Compliance management

Risk management

Education

QCF level 3 Health & Social Care for children and young people

Job description

Overview

37 hours per week

This is an exciting time to join Bridgend CBC as we remodel the way we meet the needs of children who need support in line with the Welsh Government agenda to end profit in children's residential services in Wales.

Hillsboro House provides care and support for one child/young person between the ages of 8-25 years who, due to complex needs, cannot be placed alongside others.

Hillsboro will be used as a short-term bridging placement towards a more suitable and stable long-term placement for a young person. The service is intended to have the ability to become dormant and to become active at short notice if an appropriate child or young person is referred, with status changes communicated to CIW. This means the service will be reactive and can avoid an Out of County placement.

Hillsboro seeks to offer an opportunity for pause and to understand needs to assist in a transition for the child or young person into services best suited to promote positive change and development.

The service will focus on providing a therapeutic environment to stabilise the child’s/young person’s challenging behaviour, address risk-taking behaviours, reconnect to education, training or employment where necessary, and support the identification of suitable long-term move-on placements.

Responsibilities

• As the senior children’s residential worker you will provide care and leadership to a single child/young person (ages 8-25) with complex needs, ensuring a safe, supportive, and therapeutic environment.
• Ensure the home remains compliant with Regulatory Requirements and supports children and young people to achieve the best possible outcomes.
• Coordinate and implement care plans, risk management strategies, and progress reviews with relevant professionals.
• Promote engagement in education, training, or employment where appropriate and facilitate transitions to suitable long-term placements.
• Work flexibly to respond to changing needs and service status to maintain effective short-term bridging placement.

Qualifications

• Qualified to QCF level 3 Health & Social Care for children and young people (as listed in the Qualification framework for the Social Care Sector in Wales).

Other requirements

• Ability to greet customers through the medium of Welsh is a requirement for this post.
• Protecting children, young people or adults at risk is a core responsibility of all council employees.
• Enhanced DBS check (Children and Adults) is required for this post.

Dates

Closing Date: 25 February 2026

Shortlisting Date: 09 March 2026

Interview Date: 16 March 2026

Benefits and application

Benefits to working at Bridgend County Borough Council are available. This role is part of our ongoing development of an innovative approach to care.