Night Care Worker
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 30 Ebrill 2026 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £20,000 i £26,000 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | Exceeds National Minimum Wage |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 29 Mai 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Cheadle Hulme, SK8 7BH |
| Cwmni: | The Together Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | togethertrust/TP/662/421 |
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Have you ever wanted to make a difference to the lives of vulnerable Children and Young People?
Our children’s home in Cheadle Hulme, provides therapeutic support for up to 3 children who present with self-harm behaviours, trauma and attachment difficulties. The caring home provides intensive support to children and young people with recognised attachment issues and complex needs.
The Together Trust is one of the North West’s leading charities, offering individual care, support, and education to hundreds of children, young people, and adults each year. We are a not-for-profit charitable trust, so every penny goes back into benefiting the people that we support.
You will be working in a caring home environment, nurturing, and supporting the young people we work with helping them to overcome the issues they are facing. You will work with the team and the Registered Manager to give the support that these Children and Young People deserve to help make life better for them.
The Together Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people that we support and expects all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are looking for a Night care worker who can complete the full range of tasks required.
This role will be carried out whilst working 10-hour night shifts allocated by the Manager or delegated person which includes weekends.
Working Hours - 30 Hours
Location - Central Cheadle Hulme
Contract - Permanent
Salary-£20,984.00 per year with hourly rate of £13.45 per hour
Additional Payment - Time and a quarter paid for weekend hours worked.
We also offer...
- Annual Leave 27 day holiday plus 8 days bank holidays rising to 30 after 5 years, 33 days after 10 years
- Generous pension scheme and death in service benefit, up to 7% company pension contributions initially rising with length of service and up to 6 x basic salary death in service benefit.
- Occupational sick pay and family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
- Reward and Discount platform offering discounts at high street shops, travel, insurances etc.
- Eligibility to apply for Blue Light card
- Proud to be a real living wage employer
- Refer a friend scheme, be rewarded for recommending a friend to work with us
- Comprehensive training and development opportunities, including apprenticeship qualifications
- Long service awards including cash gifts and extra holiday.
- Promotion of Wellbeingacross the organisation including Mental Health First Aiders offering wellbeing support from trained colleague and free weekly yoga session in person or online
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme for you and adults at your home
About the Position...
The core tasks will include attending to the needs of children and young adults during the night, some of which have complex health conditions, domestic duties and appropriate record keeping in accordance with legislation and regulations.
You will also;
- Assist in the planning, operations and assessment of the young person's need.
- Maintain appropriate records on the child, young person and adult and ensure that information is passed onto other members of the team
- Administer medication and simple medical procedures for the young people as appropriate and a willingness to undertake training if required
- Take responsibility for the security and maintenance of the house/unit during the night, including housekeeping duties as required and utilising the sleep - in member of staff or on-call manager as required
About you...
Do you have the skills we are looking for.
- Good Communication and interpersonal skills. You’ll be expected to liaise with other staff, parents/carers, and professionals.
- Some previous experience of working in a children’s residential setting along with flexibility to respond to the needs of the home.
- Am ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team, taking the lead when required, maintaining & encouraging open and honest communication.
- You must have a good understanding of English and IT skills and be happy to complete all the paperwork and care plans to a good quality. Which includes daily recording on IT systems (Clearcare) and other records such as incident reports.
- An enthusiastic, reliable and outgoing person with a level of maturity, skills and interests which can be utilised to engage the young people.
Is this you? Are you ready to make a positive change?Then please take a closer look at theFull Job Description and Person Specification are attached to this advert.
https://www.togethertrust.org.uk/join-us
This service is regulated by Ofsted therefore all employees must be over the age of 22 years at the time of joining the service.
Safeguarding checks will be undertaken for the successful candidate in line with our safer recruitment policy, including an Enhanced DBS check (at no cost to yourself).
This role will involve regulated activity.
We may remove this advert should we find the successful candidate prior to the closing date therefore early applications are encouraged.
We currently do not provide sponsorship, but we welcome applications from those who have the right to work in the UK.
In order for the Trust to comply with the apprenticeship funding rules, it is a requirement of the role that the successful applicant must be able to evidence that (1) they have the right to work in the UK without additional approval for more than 20 hours each week throughout the year and (2) they have an eligible residency status for the purposes of the apprenticeship funding rules. In most cases this will mean that the individual needs to show that they have been ''ordinarily resident'' in particular countries (including the UK) at least 3 years before the start of the apprenticeship.
Applications are very welcome from all regardless of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race, sex, sexual orientation, trans status or socio-economic background. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments for disabled people. We positively encourage applications from those with lived experience.
If there is any part of your lived experience you want to keep confidential in some way, please talk to the Recruitment or HR shared service teams and we will do what we can to support you.
Skills:
Autism Awareness; PBS, Positive support behaviour; Challenging behaviour; Learning difficulty;
Qualifications:
Standard education including English and Maths
Keywords:
Autism Awareness; PBS, Positive support behaviour; Challenging behaviour; Learning difficulty; Night care worker; support worker;