Nights Residential Child Care Worker | Children's Residential Service | Central Lancashire

| Salary £28,142 - £32,061 Per Annum (Pro Rata if Part Time) | Full Time (37 Hours Per Week) & Part Time Positions available | Central Lancashire |

International Sponsorship – this role is not open to international sponsorship 

Nights Residential Child Care Worker

Children and Family Services

Location: Central Lancashire* (covering homes based in Preston, Chorley, Bamber Bridge & Skelmersdale)

Salary: £28,142 - £32,061

Full time and Part time opportunities available 

*Please note this role may require you to work at different homes across our Central Lancashire Cluster. Therefore, access to your own vehicle is essential. 

(Enhanced pay rates apply for night and weekend work, including a 25% uplift for hours worked between 11pm and 8am (subject to a start time before 6am). These enhancements do not apply to shift workers. Weekend work may attract up to 33% additional pay when part of the contractual working week.)

About us…

Our Children's Residential Service is expanding, and we have exciting opportunities within Central Lancashire due the opening of a new home in the area. 

As a Residential Service, we hold strong views and beliefs that our children deserve the very best care and support. We pride ourselves on developing positive, meaningful, and lifelong relationships with our children. With an emphasis on working creatively, we promote lots of fun activities for our children inside and outside the homes and ensure that our children and young people are supported to develop in all areas of life.

Could you work in a children's home as part of our night care team?

Our children are not able to live safely with their parent(s) or family, usually due to adverse childhood experiences and trauma. Residential Support Workers listen and engage our children in 1:1 work around feelings, emotions, and behaviours, and link with other professionals, such as social workers, schools, police, and health workers to ensure our children's needs are met.

Night staff have a significant and important role in our children's homes and work through the night whilst staff are asleep. Night staff are responsible for ensuring the home is secure during the night and, should the children wake, that they have a friendly face to support them and deal with any issues.

What do our children want from you?

We encourage our children to participate and get involved in all decisions, and recruitment is no different. It is really important to us that any worker joining the Residential team has the skills, abilities, and outlook that our children tell us they need from us.

• "I would like someone like me who has time to listen instead of being behind a locked door."
• "I would like someone who listens to me but also takes action and who I can have a laugh with – they also need to be able to make nice food."
• "I would like someone who spends time with me."

What can you expect from us?

We have an ambitious, confident, and motivated management team who are experienced, supportive, and keen to help you learn and grow. We have over 50 free courses for you to learn new things, and even have funded qualifications we can support you with obtaining, up to degree level, should this be something that interests you.

We have a detailed induction programme specifically designed to cover all elements of the role, so that you have all the tools and knowledge ready to get going. For all permanent staff, we will provide a monthly 1:1 reflective space with managers, a comprehensive Employee Support Offer, and lots of opportunity to network with other professionals that support children.

As an organisation, we offer a wide range of staff benefits including access to our "Blues and Twos Credit" Union, Membership of Blue Light Card, and various discounts at local retailers.

What are we looking for?

• Passion: Thinking creatively to ensure that our children are supported to achieve their aspirations (no matter how big or small) will need to be top of your list! We are looking for passionate practitioners (irrelevant of length of experience) who truly care and want to make a difference to children, young people, and families.
• Challenge: Some days will be tough, for our children, for you, and for your colleagues - we're after someone who is dedicated and committed, and who will always go that extra mile for our children (even on the bad days). Working as part of a close professional team is really important and you will need to be a team player to get through those tough times.
• Forward thinking: We are an expanding service with big ideas and aspirational views. We are looking for workers who can join our team and join us on this exciting journey, making contributions to help shape and inform the future of the service for our children.
• Values: We are looking for someone who has values aligned to those that are integral to our service and our organisation - supportive, innovative, respectful, and collaborative.

How to apply…

*If you are interested in applying for this role. Please provide the below with your application:

• CV/Resume 

If you have any questions before applying, we would be delighted to have an initial confidential chat with you so please contact our Talent Team on Email: talent@lancashire.gov.uk to arrange a call. 

Closing Date:  07th December 2025                Interviews: Held Weekly, every Wednesday. 

The post you are applying for is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013). If successful you will be required to apply to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) for a 'disclosure'. Further information can be found on the 'Our Recruitment Process' tab. 

You will be required to provide a car for use in connection with the duties of this post and must be insured for business use. However, we may consider you if you cannot drive because of a disability. 

We reserve the right to close down a vacancy early, before the closing date, if we receive sufficient applications.

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