Residential care support night worker - children's

About the Role

and our Ideal Candidate

This is a demanding yet deeply rewarding role, perfect for dedicated professionals committed to delivering exceptional standards within children’s residential care. Joining a well-established team with a proven track record of success, you will play a vital role in further strengthening our service and supporting some of our most vulnerable young people. While the environment can be challenging, it offers immense satisfaction to those driven to provide the highest quality of care and stability.

About You

You are a resilient, experienced, and passionate practitioner who thrives on making a genuine difference. To succeed in this role, you will possess:

Extensive experience working directly with children and young people, ideally within a residential care setting.

Exceptional relationship-building skills, with a proven ability to connect with and support children who have a wide range of complex needs and diverse life experiences.

An outcome-focused approach, effectively utilising your relationships with young people to inspire positive change, build trust, and help them achieve long-term success.

About Us London Borough of Sutton are offering an exciting opportunity to play a lead role in the expansion and development of Willow Rise Children’s Home. Wanting the best for our children, we are developing our current in-house residential services to best meet the needs of our children. Following significant Council investment, our new Residential Strategy seeks to bring children closer to families and the communities that they know, living in high quality provision designed around them. We are looking for Residential Youth Workers who will be fully supported by hands on and committed managers, great access to training and a support network including our integrated youth services. Our Offer To You

As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we’re committed to helping you fulfil your potential and will offer you a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment to grow and develop your career and skills. We’re constantly striving to improve our ways of working so putting your ideas across however big or small; will be fully encouraged and supported by your colleagues and our dynamic and experienced management team.

Employees have access to a wide range of benefits to enable staff to achieve a work life balance, some of which include:

A generous annual leave entitlement of 26-32 days plus bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time working hours apply) depending on service and grade

Enhanced Maternity, paternity, shared parental, adoption and dependents leave

Two volunteering days per year

Flexible Working - Smarter Working Scheme (dependent on the role)

Adjustable and agile working arrangements using Google Chromebooks

Learning and development portal offering a range of courses

Discounts on a range of local shops, restaurants, gyms and leisure centres

Interest free season ticket loans

Local Government Pension Scheme

Bicycle loan facilities and cycle to work scheme

Electric vehicle leasing scheme

Confidential health & wellbeing and counselling support