Residential Childcare Practitioner

Job Description

If the following job requirements and experience match your skills, please ensure you apply promptly.

Do you have the professional resilience and expertise to shape the lives of vulnerable young people? We are partnering with a specialist care provider in Dumfries dedicated to creating safe, nurturing environments for children facing complex social and emotional challenges. This is a rare opportunity for an experienced practitioner to join a service that values high-standard care as much as it values its staff.

The Best Bit? A Rota Designed for Excellence. Utilising a structured "2 days on, 4 days off" shift pattern, this role provides the consistency needed to deliver high-quality therapeutic care while ensuring you have significant time away to recharge. With a competitive salary and additional earnings from sleep-ins, your total annual package will exceed £34,000.

What's in it for you?

• Competitive Reward: Base salary up to £26,032.50, plus £67.50 per sleep-in (averaging 10 per month, adding £8,000+ per year).
• Joining Incentives: A £500 welcome bonus and access to a £1,000 "Refer a Friend" scheme.
• Work-Life Balance: A fixed, full-time rotation of 2 days on followed by 4 days off.
• Professional Growth: Access to specialist industry-standard training and clear pathways for senior career development.
• Comprehensive Perks: Exclusive high-street retailer discounts and 24/7 access to hardship grants and support helplines.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Expert Care Delivery: Provide high-standard, 24-hour support to young people in a specialist three-bed home, ensuring a stable and warm environment.
• Clinical and Emotional Support: Act as a positive role model and patient listener for service users dealing with early-life trauma and emotional behavioural difficulties (EBD).
• Foster Independence: Guide young people through daily routines, educational attendance, and community activities to prepare them for their next life stages.
• Digital Oversight: Confidently manage and update electronic care recording systems to ensure meticulous welfare monitoring and reporting.
• Collaborative Leadership: Work alongside a dedicated team to maintain a safe space for expression, maintaining clear professional boundaries at all times.

What we need from you

• Proven Experience: A strong background in residential childcare or working with young people with complex needs is essential.
• Character: You are a patient, warm, and proactive professional focused on achieving positive outcomes for those in your care.
• Technical Proficiency: Experience with digital reporting platforms and a high standard of written communication.
• Compliance: Successful candidates must be registered (or willing to register) with the PVG scheme and provide a comprehensive reference history.

Ready to make a difference?

The specialist care sector moves fast, and we are looking for dedicated professionals to join this service immediately. Apply today to transition into a role where your expertise transforms lives.

Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone. xwzovoh

Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.