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Lead the Way as a Children's Residential Team Leader
Ready to take the next step in your career?
At Wilderness Way, leadership is about more than managing shifts. It's about creating an environment where children can feel safe, valued and supported to achieve their potential.
As a Team Leader, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the quality of care within the home, leading by example, developing click apply for full job details
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Lead the Way as a Children's Residential Team Leader
Ready to take the next step in your career?
At Wilderness Way, leadership is about more than managing shifts. It's about creating an environment where children can feel safe, valued and supported to achieve their potential.
As a Team Leader, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the quality of care within the home, leading by example, developing click apply for full job details
Lead the Way as a Children's Residential Team Leader
Ready to take the next step in your career?
At Wilderness Way, leadership is about more than managing shifts. It's about creating an environment where children can feel safe, valued and supported to achieve their potential.
As a Team Leader, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the quality of care within the home, leading by example, developing click apply for full job details
Lead the Way as a Children's Residential Team Leader
Ready to take the next step in your career?
At Wilderness Way, leadership is about more than managing shifts. It's about creating an environment where children can feel safe, valued and supported to achieve their potential.
As a Team Leader, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the quality of care within the home, leading by example, developing click apply for full job details
The starting salary for this role is 38,090 per annum for working 36 hours per week plus enhanced rates of pay for weekends, bank holidays and sleep in duties.
Are you ready to take the next step in your career in residential children's care?
We currently have an opportunity for a Senior Practitioner to join our Children's Residential Home in Walton-on-Thames. If you are considering a move from the private children's residential care sector, or another care background this role may more commonly be known as a Residential Team or Shift Leader.
This is one of the best roles in our homes - offering a balance between direct work with our children and young people and the opportunity to contribute to the development of your team.
Our Offer to You
Our Senior Practitioner role is one that is both structured and varied, where you'll have a foot in two camps:
Directly supporting our children and young people, building trusted relationships, and helping them manage their emotions and behaviours, process trauma, and navigate complex family dynamics. You'll bring empathy, consistency, and resilience to your work - creating positive experiences filled with laughter, fun, and love, while helping our children and young people to develop healthy routines and coping strategies through meaningful activities including education and contributing to everyday life within the home.
Supporting and guiding staff, you will use your previous experience and sense of personal authority, professionalism, and integrity to lead by example, helping team members to make safe, and informed decisions in sometimes challenging circumstances. You will work closely with management within the home to maintain a safe, nurturing environment and collaborate with multi-agency professionals involved in the lives of tour children and young people to contribute to meaningful care planning. You will guide junior members of the team acting as a mentor and sharing best practice, role modelling behaviours, creating respectful and confidential boundaries to work within, and inspiring them to grow by supporting them with their induction, training requirements, probation activity, and journey to gain their diplomas.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone ready to take their first step into leadership, without the full stretch and responsibility of a Deputy Manager role. We'll support you to develop your own skills through training, regular supervision, and a personalised development plan, and the opportunity to gain your Level 5 qualification in Management and Leadership if that's the path you choose, paving the way for future progression into more senior roles.
Your Application
In order to be considered for shortlisting, your application will clearly evidence the following skills and align with our behaviours:
In this role, you'll be expected to provide supervision to more junior team members. While previous supervisory experience isn't essential, you must be confident in offering guidance and support, and willing to take on this responsibility as part of your development.
Due to our legal obligations, we can only accept applications from people 22 years old and above.
Surrey has both urban and rural areas and our residential workforce will be expected to have a valid driving licence to drive in the UK and access to a vehicle, to support our young people to attend appointments, activities or trips as agreed.
An enhanced DBS 'Disclosure and Barring Service' check for regulated activity (formerly known as CRB) and the Children's and Adults' Barred List checks will be required for this role.
If you have transferable skills and experience of working in children's services such as family support or placements, fostering, youth services or probation and prison services you may have developed skills that would align well to our Senior Practitioner role, and we would love to hear from you to understand how these could fit a role in our residential children's services.
As part of your application, you will be asked to submit a CV and answer the following questions:
This advert closes at 23:59 on 23.08.2026 with interviews to follow.
We look forward to receiving your application, please click on the apply online button below to submit.
Local Government Reorganisation (LGR)
Surrey County Council is undergoing Local Government Reorganisation, moving from a two-tier system to two new unitary councils in April 2027. If you are employed by Surrey on 1st April 2027, your role will transfer with current terms and conditions to one of the new organisations, supporting local devolution and greater powers for our communities.
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Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Salary: £35,000 - £36,000 per annum, depending on experience
Contract: Full-time, Permanent
Sector: Children's Residential Care
The Role
We are looking for an experienced and confident Team Leader to join a children's residential home in Cheltenham.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Senior Residential Support Worker or existing Team Leader who enjoys being hands-on with young people but is also ready to take greater responsibility for leading shifts, supporting colleagues and helping maintain consistently high standards within the home.
Working closely with the Deputy Manager and Registered Manager, you will help provide a safe, nurturing and supportive environment where children and young people feel listened to, valued and able to make positive progress.
This is very much a role for somebody who leads from the front. You will be supporting young people directly while also being someone the wider staff team can turn to for guidance, direction and support.
Key Responsibilities
About You
We are looking for someone who understands that good residential childcare is about much more than completing tasks and paperwork. You will be able to build relationships with young people while maintaining appropriate boundaries and providing the consistency and leadership they need.
You should be calm under pressure, approachable, organised and confident making decisions when leading a shift.
Ideally, you will have:
Working Pattern
The role will involve working as part of a residential rota and candidates should therefore be comfortable with the flexibility required within children's residential care, including evenings, weekends and, where applicable, sleep-in duties.
Full details of the shift pattern and any additional sleep-in payments will be discussed during the recruitment process.
Please only apply if you already have the right to work in the UK without requiring employer sponsorship.
Not for you, but know someone suitable? Ask us about the YourRecruit paid referral scheme.
Due to the number of applications we receive, unfortunately we cannot respond individually to every applicant. Candidates selected for the next stage will be contacted directly.
Interested? Please apply with an up-to-date CV. Due to the regulated nature of Children's Residential Care, successful candidates will be required to complete all relevant safer recruitment and pre-employment checks before starting work.
Right to Work: Please only apply if you already have the right to work in the UK for this position. Unfortunately, sponsorship is not available for this vacancy.
Safer Recruitment & Safeguarding: YourRecruit is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Appointments to roles within children's residential services will be subject to appropriate safer recruitment checks, which may include an Enhanced DBS check, verification of employment history, satisfactory references, qualification checks, identity and Right to Work checks, and exploration of any gaps in employment, in line with the requirements of the role and provider.
Know someone suitable? YourRecruit operates a paid referral scheme, so if this role isn't right for you but you know someone who may be interested, please get in touch.
Due to the volume of applications we receive, we may not be able to respond individually to every applicant. If you have not heard from us within 7 days, unfortunately you have not been shortlisted for this particular vacancy. We would, however, be pleased to consider you for other suitable opportunities.
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Salary: £24,336 per annum (36-hour contract) £33,696 per annum (48-hour contract)
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Key Responsibilities
Requirements
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Location: Dolphin Court, Southend On Sea
Salary: £13.50 per hour
Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time (40 hours per week)
Are you the candidate we are looking for? At Shaftesbury Dolphin Court we are recruiting for a Team Leader.
We are looking for people with the passion, talent, skills and experience that all add up to a caring and community-minded workforce.
We believe that the people we support have the right to a full and flourishing life. They deserve the very best in delivery. Driven by our core values, Shaftesbury strives to be Open, Enabling, Inclusive and Courageous in all that we do.
Our disability services across adult care, children s care and education are all focused on inclusion and support. Committed to professional, flexible and personalised care, we are passionate about going the extra mile in providing opportunities for people to thrive and live well.
About the role
As a Team Leader it will be your duty to oversee the day to day running of the service. This will include supporting the staff team and the people supported.
We are looking for candidates who have obtained a NVQ Level 3 in health and social care or are willing to work towards this qualification.
There will be a requirement to cover sleep in sessions. You will be paid an additional £60 per sleep in.
As a Team Leader you will be required to be part of the On Call rota for the service. You will be paid an additional £10 per session.
Dolphin Court in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, provides person-centred, responsive, residential and nursing care.
The home is a purpose-designed building for adults with a wide range of needs, including acquired brain injury or stroke, intellectual and physical disability.
Our seafront location means 13 of the 15 self-contained flats overlook the beach. All flats are bright and spacious and we offer two flats for couples. Our accessible and welcoming environment provides modern facilities with daily nursing care.
Benefits of working at Shaftesbury
At Shaftesbury, we know that our people are our greatest asset. We re proud to have some of the best and most committed staff in the sector and we want to attract more people like you to work with Shaftesbury. We re now offering even more great benefits to reward the work of our wonderful staff in adult care:
Shaftesbury is the disability charity that s committed to enabling children, young people and adults to live a life that adds up for them.
What makes life liveable is never down to just one thing - it s the sum of many things. From friendship to fun; from companionship to community; from a great chat to a challenge overcome, it all adds up to Shaftesbury.
Through a wide range of disability care, special education, and rehabilitation services we promote inclusion and wellbeing for all. Together, we work to see people take part, contribute and be valued. We put the elements in place that all add up to connected lives.
Shaftesbury is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable children and adults and expects all employees to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced DBS/Access NI check.
Shaftesbury is committed to the Disability Confident Scheme and to equal opportunities therefore we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation.
To Apply
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for Shaftesbury Group, please click apply to be redirected to their website to complete your application.
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