Senior Residential Support Worker
| Posting date: | 26 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 July 2025 |
| Location: | Bolton, BL1 4JY |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75711851 |
Summary
Grade: G scp 23 £33,366 to scp 27 £37,035
Contract: Permanent, 24/7 service
Essential Qualification: NVQ Level 3 - health and social care or a greater or equivalent qualification
Ask us about flexible working options to fit with your work/life balance - #HappytoTalkFlexible
The Role
Bolton’s short breaks service for disabled young people and their families have an opportunity for someone to join the team as a Senior Residential Support Worker. This is to enable us to maintain the high standards currently in place and enable us to meet the overall aim of the children’s home by providing high quality, short break care for children and young people with learning disabilities who may also have additional care needs arising from behavioural difficulties. This will be done in partnership with their parents.
About You
We are looking for an individual who is enthusiastic, creative, proactive, organised and able to make a commitment to the home and in supporting young disabled people to stay safe, keep healthy, enjoy and achieve and take part in decisions which affect their lives whilst they are in our care.
You will need to have previous experience working with children with disabilities.
You will also need to able to lead and motivate a large staff team, supervise staff and deputise for the Registered Manager when needed.
If you think you are what we are looking for please apply with your CV and a covering letter showing how you meet the requirements of the role as outlined in the job description and person specification.
About Us
This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.
Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.
As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.
Our Values are really important to us, read all about them below, along with all our great staff benefits, the job description/person specification for the role and the important legal bits, and our Top Tips too.
Ready to apply? Then please click Apply and upload your anonymised CV and supporting statement discussing your relevant skills and experience and explain how you believe they make you a strong fit for this role.
Within Greater Manchester, local authorities have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel. Please see greater.jobs for further information before you apply.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An Enhanced DBS with check of relevant barred list is therefore required for this post.
This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.
This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation that has signed the commitment, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits. Please see the home page of greater.jobs for more information.
For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see greater.jobs; for advice and support with your application, contact recruitment@bolton.gov.uk
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