Children's Residential Mobile Support Worker (Waking Nights)

Job summary

Children's Residential Mobile Support Worker (Waking Nights)

We are seeking a Mobile Support Worker to work waking nights with a non-profit organisation that’s delivered unique support for young people across East Anglia for over fifty years!

Position: Children’s Residential Senior Support Worker

Location: Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire

Job type: Permanent, full-time

Hours: 38 hours per week

Salary: £24,206 to £24,601 per annum, depending on qualifications

Closing Date: 26th October 2025

About the Role

As a Waking Nights Support Worker in the mobile team, you’ll have the opportunity to work across the range of services. You’ll be hands on, working with the young people throughout the night, helping them rest ready for the day ahead. The role includes a range of duties including preparing the home for the following day. You may be required to provide personal care. If you’re looking for a varied role which incorporates disability and residential services, then this is the role for you.

Two days are never the same in this role as you work across Norfolk and Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to provide consistent care for service users. You’ll work with young people between the ages of 5 and 18 providing extra support and shift cover in residential services for young people and those with disabilities and at the disability short break centre.

About you

You’ll bring a positive and can-do attitude to the role, have the ability to adapt to a varied workload and be able to build up strong relationships with a range of professionals and children across services.

You will need to successfully complete an NVQ Level 3 in Residential Childcare before you complete 24 months of Support Work. This will be fully funded by the charity and you will be supported by the training team.

Please note that you must have a full, valid, manual driving licence.

In your role, you’ll have access to the following benefits:

• Free, career-enhancing qualifications
• A “golden hello” scheme welcoming you to our services, with £500 paid to you one month after your start date and a second £500 at the six-month mark. (Not available to candidates referred by recruitment agencies)
• A referral scheme offering the same two payments as the golden hello if you recommend a contact who goes on to be employed by Break in care services. (subject to conditions)
• 31 days annual leave per year (including bank holidays)
• Annual leave purchase
• Additional service-related holiday from 2 years
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Company funded medical cash plan
• Enhanced sick pay and family friendly leave
• Pension salary sacrifice
• Life assurance to the value of 3x your annual salary
• Access to the Blue Light benefits platform enabling you to access discounts across a range of shops, venues and services (your membership fee will be reimbursed)
• Access to multiple Wellbeing initiatives
• The opportunity to influence Break’s strategy and direction through our Staff Consultation Forum
• Cycle to Work and Tech scheme
• And more

To comply with the Immigration Asylum & Nationality Act 2006 and additional amendments, and UK Visa and Immigration (UKVI) requirements, all prospective employees will be asked to supply evidence of eligibility to work in the UK.

About the organisation

Nobody chooses the family or circumstances they are born into. The charity firmly believes that with the right care, there is no limit to what can be achieved.

We work across East Anglia with children and young people on the edge of care, in care and leaving care. Whether you’re interested in working in our residential homes and short breaks for children with disabilities, our pioneering Staying Close Staying Connected project or vital essentials like our wraparound care offer, one thing is universal: you’ll be joining a team of passionate and dedicated individuals who want the very best for the young people they care for.

You may have experience in roles such as Senior Support Worker, Care Worker, Children’s Home, Children’s Support Worker, Children’s Care Worker, Youth Worker, Family Support Worker, Children's Residential Support Worker, Residential Youth Support Worker (Children's Homes), Residential Care Worker etc. #INDSCP

PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by Social Care People on behalf of the organisation.