Job Description:

Waking Night Support Worker

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.