Job description
Salary: £33,143 - £36,363 a year
Hours: Full Time – 37 hours a week. Includes shift working, sleep in duties, alternate weekends and bank holiday working
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: The Light House Unit, St Marks Road, Derby
Closing Date: 26th February 2026
Do you want a job where you genuinely help to improve a child’s life?
At The Light House, you won’t just be working shifts — you’ll be creating safe, joyful and meaningful short breaks for disabled children and young people who truly need you.
About The Light House
The Light House is a warm and welcoming residential short breaks service for children and young people with disabilities and complex needs.
What you will do
Create positive, safe and fun experiences, build trusting relationships, support children with autism, learning disabilities and complex needs. Follow care plans and work as part of a team.
Who we are looking for
A genuine passion for care, experience with complex needs, good communication, good written and numerical skills, Shift pattern, Includes evenings, weekends and sleep-ins.
We are looking to appoint enthusiastic and committed individuals to deliver a residential short breaks service to disabled children and young people. The successful applicants will display a creative, patient and caring but dynamic approach to young people and must be able to create and follow care plans.
What we offer you
Training, qualifications, supervision, wellbeing support and progression.
You will have experience of, and a genuine passion for, working with learning disabled young people aged 0 to 17 who may display complex challenging behaviours and may have a range of physical disabilities and clinical needs. Experience and knowledge of the impact of, and approaches to working with young people on the autistic spectrum, along with experience of working with young people who have complex needs such as sensory/communication difficulties and clinical needs is important.
You will be able to communicate effectively with young people and can build positive relationships with young people and their families, to enable young people’s care needs to be positively met.
You will understand the physical, emotional, and social needs of young people and their development and the role of short break care within this. You will be fun and child focussed and able to work as part of a team to plan and deliver care.
To be successful in this role, you’ll ideally have…
Excellent ability in written and numerical skills. Health and Social Care CYP NVQ 3 / Level 3 Diploma are desirable or the commitment to study to achieve this is essential.
Due to the nature of the post, applicants must be 22 years of age or above.
Shift work is an essential part of the post and includes evening and weekend working plus occasional sleep-in duties when required and waking night care in emergencies. You must be flexible and be able to change shifts to accommodate the needs of the service.