Residential Childcare Worker

Can you brighten someone's day?

Do you strive to make a real difference to the lives of vulnerable children?

If this sounds like you, then apply today!

Randstad is looking for experienced residential support workers to work with children's services. You will work across a range of services supporting children who experience social, emotional and behavioural difficulties or disabilities.

Competetive salary of between £35,000 and £40,000 per anum.

Part time and full time hours available booking your own shifts through our app and catching up with your own dedicated consultant. Work at the same service or try out lots of different ones!

What can Randstad offer a child residential support worker?

- Competitive rates

- Keep your skills sharp working across multiple services

- Flexible working schedule

- Opportunity for consistent placement

- Unlimited friend referral bonuses

- Immediate start

- Extensive training in industry standard courses supported by online learning

- Help with SSSC registration

- Employee discount app

- Support from within the team and a dedicated Randstad consultant

A successful child residential support worker will be responsible for:

- Working effectively as part of a team of child support workers

- Hitting the ground running!

- Providing 24 hours care to a vulnerable young people

- Supporting service users with early trauma and emotional behavioural difficulties

- Taking service users out into the community and to school each day

- Ensuring professional boundaries are in place

- Maintaining professional manner and working to National Care Standards

- Working to a flexible schedule, including night shifts, weekends and bank holidays and Christmas period

To be successful in your application, you will:

- Have previous experience working in a residential setting with young people

- Have flexibility in the roles undertaken

- Have strong communication skills

- Register under the PVG scheme

- Full driving licence

- Obtained, or working towards SVQ level 3 in Health and Social Care, or equivalent desirable

If this sounds like the position for you, don't delay!

Apply now and one of our team may call you for an informal chat to take your application to the next stage. Alternatively, if you would like some more information give us a call on 013 a confidential chat.

Not the role for you?

We are always looking for talented residential support workers across Scotland, email me at

Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.

Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.