Description Salary: £25,000 per annum Location: Renfrewshire, Scotland Contract/Hours: Permanent – 37 hours Full time & 0 hours casual contracts available. Please state in your application which contract/hours you are applying for. Benefits: 29 days annual leave plus bank holidays and options to buy or sell leave Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages Pension with up to 7% matched employer contribution with included life assurance cover Staff discounts and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts We are a Real Living Wage accredited employer We are one of the largest children’s charities in the UK and have been making a difference to the lives of the UK’s vulnerable children for over 150 years. A bit about the role To provide children with disabilities a positive and stimulating short break experience is a vital part of our work. As a Residential Worker, you'll be working in our Loom Walk service based in Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire. We can support up to six children and young people at any one time. When children stay, we can offer them a range of activities and experiences through the facilities we have. This includes sensory stimuli where each bedroom has a sensory element, access to various community leisure pursuits and a garden area offering a variety of stimulating activity. The focus is to provide high quality care and support to children where they have fun within a safe and caring environment. The working hour patterns are 7.00am – 3.00pm, 2.30pm – 9.45pm and waking nights 9.15pm – 7.15am, these will be worked on a rotational basis, How you'll help to create brighter futures -Supporting children to achieve positive outcomes for their future. -Supporting with medical needs or support during the night if needed for the young person. -Providing a safe environment for them to enjoy time with their friends. -Giving families the break they need to continue supporting their children. -Assisting the children in all aspects of their care and supporting their health and wellbeing. Let's talk about you -Commitment to working on a 24-hour shift rota pattern, which includes evenings, weekends and some bank holidays -Ideally, a HNC and SVQ 3 in a social care discipline, or a qualification in social care, nursing, education, which would meet the registration requirements. -Applications from candidates with part qualification or none but with relevant skills, knowledge or experience will be considered as the opportunity to undertake qualifications will exist. -Experience of working with disabled young people -The ability to use MS Office to record case notes -Excellent communication skills -Safeguarding knowledge -A positive approach, providing a fun environment for all the children in our care. Good to know If, for any reason, you need support with your application, please contact Jessica Jarvis at recruitmentservice@actionforchildren.org.uk quoting reference 11682 We'll be happy to give you any support you require. We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role Diversity, equality, and inclusion At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children. Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles. Please click on the below links to find out more about this role and Action for Children; Job Description Action for Children Employee Benefits AfC Commitment Statement Action for Children's story Make a Difference - A Career in Residential Services Or find us on X, Linkedin, Facebook or YouTube