Children's Residential Care Practitioner
| Posting date: | 11 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | £32,000 per year |
| Additional salary information: | This includes wake nights |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 March 2026 |
| Location: | ME10 3GP |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Platinum Housing Support and Care Ltd. |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
Domestic:
Help to maintain a clean environment within the home and undertaking health and safety duties as required. General household duties include cooking, cleaning, shopping, laundry, home making and reporting required repairs.
Relationship Building:
The ability to form, maintain and end appropriate working relationships with the young people. To develop and maintain professional relationships with colleagues, social workers, and other stake holders.
Advocacy:
Ensure that the views and needs of children and young people are sought, heard, and responded to in a way that is beneficial to them. Promoting communication and participation with the child and young person’s views directly influencing their care plan.
Equality & Diversity:
All Platinum Housing staff must work within the principles of non-oppressive practice and adhere to the Equality & Diversity policy, with an awareness of direct and in-direct discrimination in relation to age, gender, ability, sexual orientation, race, culture, and religious beliefs.
Behaviour Management:
Use positive behaviour support strategies and appropriate boundaries to support young people who may display challenging behaviours as a result of past traumas. You may be required, in some instances, to physically intervene to maintain the safety of the young person, others or prevent significant damaged to property. You must be able to produce detailed reports to situations/incidents that warrant such.
Transportation:
To partake in the safe transportation of young people adhering to the young person’s risk assessments and company policies.
Health:
To know and understand each young person’s health plan and work to its objectives. Also, to adhere to the procedures, and recording of, safe administration of medication. To support children and young people to attend appointments, promote self-care, healthy lifestyle choices and good hygiene.
Education:
To know and understand each young person’s education plan, an overall understanding of education provision and associated documentation e.g., EHCP, Personal Education Plans, Pathway Plans etc. To support the young people, attend education and progress academically and socially. The ability to educate young people around healthy lifestyle choices and life skills to promote independence.
Liaison:
Liaison with relatives, significant others, and other agencies with due regard to confidentiality and data-protection.
Key working:
You may be expected to undertake keyworker responsibilities for identified young people. Advocating for, and representing them, as necessary. Maintaining and updating files, liaising with other stakeholders and progress chasing necessary documentation. Ensuring that individual work with the young person is relevant, planned, completed and that they are consulted on all aspects of their care with a view to continuous improvement.
Activities:
Organise, supervise and partake in activities with young people and ensure that these activities are appropriately risk assessed. To accompany young people on holidays, away from the home.
Observation/Assessment:
Skills appropriate to the recording and sharing of relevant information gained from knowledge and observation. The ability to be observant of your environment and presentations of the young people is essential to your role. To assist in the compilation of, reports, assessments etc.
Administration:
Responsibilities will include completing daily reports based upon your observations and professional communications and health and safety compliance checks
Finance:
To take responsibility in dealing with petty cash, young people’s allowances etc. Record transactions, report concerns and support young people with their budgeting. This may include supporting management with end of month finance reports.
Placement/Care Plans:
To know and understand the young people’s placement/care plans and contributing to their evaluation where necessary. Be actively involved in meetings and communications with external stakeholders and support development to the best of your ability.
Risk Assessments:
To know and understand each young person’s and the homes risk assessments. To work within these contributing to their evaluation/update as necessary. Recognise contextual safeguarding and ensure risk assessments are detailed.
Help to maintain a clean environment within the home and undertaking health and safety duties as required. General household duties include cooking, cleaning, shopping, laundry, home making and reporting required repairs.
Relationship Building:
The ability to form, maintain and end appropriate working relationships with the young people. To develop and maintain professional relationships with colleagues, social workers, and other stake holders.
Advocacy:
Ensure that the views and needs of children and young people are sought, heard, and responded to in a way that is beneficial to them. Promoting communication and participation with the child and young person’s views directly influencing their care plan.
Equality & Diversity:
All Platinum Housing staff must work within the principles of non-oppressive practice and adhere to the Equality & Diversity policy, with an awareness of direct and in-direct discrimination in relation to age, gender, ability, sexual orientation, race, culture, and religious beliefs.
Behaviour Management:
Use positive behaviour support strategies and appropriate boundaries to support young people who may display challenging behaviours as a result of past traumas. You may be required, in some instances, to physically intervene to maintain the safety of the young person, others or prevent significant damaged to property. You must be able to produce detailed reports to situations/incidents that warrant such.
Transportation:
To partake in the safe transportation of young people adhering to the young person’s risk assessments and company policies.
Health:
To know and understand each young person’s health plan and work to its objectives. Also, to adhere to the procedures, and recording of, safe administration of medication. To support children and young people to attend appointments, promote self-care, healthy lifestyle choices and good hygiene.
Education:
To know and understand each young person’s education plan, an overall understanding of education provision and associated documentation e.g., EHCP, Personal Education Plans, Pathway Plans etc. To support the young people, attend education and progress academically and socially. The ability to educate young people around healthy lifestyle choices and life skills to promote independence.
Liaison:
Liaison with relatives, significant others, and other agencies with due regard to confidentiality and data-protection.
Key working:
You may be expected to undertake keyworker responsibilities for identified young people. Advocating for, and representing them, as necessary. Maintaining and updating files, liaising with other stakeholders and progress chasing necessary documentation. Ensuring that individual work with the young person is relevant, planned, completed and that they are consulted on all aspects of their care with a view to continuous improvement.
Activities:
Organise, supervise and partake in activities with young people and ensure that these activities are appropriately risk assessed. To accompany young people on holidays, away from the home.
Observation/Assessment:
Skills appropriate to the recording and sharing of relevant information gained from knowledge and observation. The ability to be observant of your environment and presentations of the young people is essential to your role. To assist in the compilation of, reports, assessments etc.
Administration:
Responsibilities will include completing daily reports based upon your observations and professional communications and health and safety compliance checks
Finance:
To take responsibility in dealing with petty cash, young people’s allowances etc. Record transactions, report concerns and support young people with their budgeting. This may include supporting management with end of month finance reports.
Placement/Care Plans:
To know and understand the young people’s placement/care plans and contributing to their evaluation where necessary. Be actively involved in meetings and communications with external stakeholders and support development to the best of your ability.
Risk Assessments:
To know and understand each young person’s and the homes risk assessments. To work within these contributing to their evaluation/update as necessary. Recognise contextual safeguarding and ensure risk assessments are detailed.