Exmouth, Devon, United Kingdom
£31000 - £40000
Permanent
Job Title: Residential Support Worker
Location: Exmouth, Devon, South West (EX8)
Salary: £31,000 - £40,000 per annum
Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent
Job Description
A leading children’s residential care provider is seeking a Residential Support Worker to join a supportive team in Exmouth, Devon. This role focuses on helping children feel safe, heard, and empowered, while delivering a bespoke package of care that supports positive outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
As a Residential Support Worker based in Exmouth, your daily duties will include:
- Supporting children’s weekly routines and activities, ensuring they are safe, engaged, and involved in decisions where appropriate.
- Following each child’s Placement Plan and promoting consistent attendance and engagement in education.
- Maintaining accurate daily records and completing key admin tasks such as daily journals, handovers, medication documentation, and telephone enquiries.
- Working in line with policies, procedures, and risk assessments, including responding appropriately to emergencies.
- Providing a safe, warm, and supportive environment that meets children’s physical, emotional, educational, recreational, and social needs.
- Promoting positive communication and using agreed communication strategies so every child has a voice.
- Supporting children to build independence and life skills (including personal space and bedroom routines).
- Managing challenging behaviour safely, following individual PBS plans, using de-escalation, and completing incident/accident documentation as required.
- Supporting a clean, safe home environment and adhering to Health & Safety and fire safety procedures (including drills).
- Participating in training, meetings, rota working (including sleep-ins and lone working), and raising concerns appropriately with management.
Requirements & Qualifications
To be successful as a Residential Support Worker, you will need:
- Experience supporting children or young people in a residential or similar care setting (essential).
- A strong understanding of safeguarding and a commitment to promoting children’s welfare (essential).
- Willingness to complete all required training and follow policies, procedures, and confidentiality standards.
- Flexibility to work a rolling rota, including sleep-in duties and lone working.
- Ability to support transport needs when required.
Benefits & Work Environment
- Competitive salary with clear progression potential
- Ongoing training and development
- Supportive team culture focused on safeguarding, inclusion, and positive outcomes
If you are a qualified Residential Support Worker looking for an exciting new role in Exmouth, apply today!
Vetro Recruitment acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Vetro is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merit alone.
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Job Title: Residential Support Worker
Location: Exmouth, Devon, South West
Salary: £31,000 - £40,000 per annum
Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent
Job Description
Residential Support Worker opportunities are available in Exmouth, Devon within a specialist children’s residential setting. You’ll help create a safe, warm, and supportive home environment where children are listened to, encouraged to make choices, and supported to achieve positive outcomes. This role suits someone who can balance compassion with clear boundaries and professional practice.
Key Responsibilities
As a Residential Support Worker based in Exmouth, your daily duties will include:
- Supporting children’s physical, emotional, psychological, educational, recreational, and social needs in a residential home setting in Exmouth.
- Following each child’s Placement Plan, promoting education attendance, and helping structure weekly routines with the voice of the child at the centre.
- Maintaining accurate daily records and completing key admin tasks (e.g., daily journals, handovers, medication records, incident/accident documentation).
- Working in line with policies, procedures, risk assessments, and safeguarding expectations, including responding appropriately to emergencies.
- Using agreed communication strategies and PBS plans, applying de-escalation, and intervening physically only when behaviour becomes dangerous and in line with guidance.
- Supporting a positive home environment, including maintaining cleanliness of communal areas and promoting life skills (e.g., bedroom cleanliness).
- Participating in training, meetings, rotas, and flexible working patterns, including sleep-in duties and lone working when required.
Requirements & Qualifications
To be successful as a Residential Support Worker, you will need:
- Proven experience supporting children or young people in a residential or similarly structured care setting.
- A strong understanding of safeguarding and the ability to follow care plans, risk assessments, and professional guidance.
- Willingness to complete all required training and maintain confidentiality at all times.
- Flexibility to work a rota, including sleep-ins and occasional lone working.
Benefits & Work Environment
- Competitive salary of £31,000 - £40,000 per annum with scope for development.
- Supportive team culture with ongoing training and structured guidance.
- A role focused on meaningful outcomes and consistent, child-centred practice.
If you are a qualified Residential Support Worker looking for an exciting new role in Exmouth, apply today!
Vetro Recruitment acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Vetro is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merit alone
