Childrens Life Practitioner – Lincolnshire

Our Children Residential Home is looking for Life Practitioners to join our team at The Old Vicarage in Swinderby, Lincoln

We are looking for a compassionate, enthusiastic, and dedicated Life Practitioners to join our team. As a Life Practitioner, you will provide essential support to individuals with severe learning disabilities and complex needs. You will play a key role in helping them live fulfilling, independent lives by assisting them in daily activities and accompanying them on trips into the community.

We provide a company vehicle that can be used to transport the people we support to community activities such as shopping, meals, appointments, and outings. To drive the company vehicle, you must have held a full UK drivers licence or have been driving in the UK for 2 years or more.

Starting rates are effective from 1st September 2026:

Level 1 - £13.12, Level 2 - £13.62, Level 3 - £14.62

You will have the opportunity to enhance your skills through our competency framework, unlocking pathways to increased hourly rates of pay. If you're ready to invest in your future and be rewarded for your achievements, we invite you to apply and embark on a rewarding career journey with us!

• Genuine Career Development
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  Opportunities with transparent pay grades (find out more here – Kisimul | Autism, Learning Disability, Residential Care)
• Fully Funded Qualifications
• Blue Light Card
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  Which gives you access to discounts in over 15,000 venues UK wide
• Refer a friend
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  Earn up to £500 for every successful hire.
• Financial Benefits: Life Assurance of 1x your annual basic salary. Access to salary sacrifice pension scheme, withdraw a percentage of your wages as you earn them before payday with Stream. Access to Discounts from over 150 retailers.
• Health & Wellbeing: From access to an online GP, confidential telephone counselling, dedicated internal wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Programme that truly makes a difference.
• Flexible Working Patterns: We recognise that not everyone celebrates the same occasions, so colleagues have the option to work on bank holidays and take the time off at another point that’s more meaningful to them.
• Cycle to Work Scheme: Salary-deducted bikes to save money.
• Free DBS Check
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  We cover the cost so you can start worry-free.

What is it like to work at Kisimul?  to hear our teams talking about life at Kisimul:

Find out more about Meaningful Life Model:

What experience and qualifications do you need:

• A genuine passion for care and to be motivated by contributing to the progression of others.
• A strong team player
• Resilient and confidence to ask for support as needed
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Computer literacy
• A Level 3 in Children’s Residential Services or a willingto work towards

What will you get in return:

• A competitive salary.
• Extensive training packages with time rostered out of your work rota to attend.
• Pension
• Life Assurance
• Genuine career development opportunities for those who want them.
• A beautiful home and grounds to work within.
• Fully funded DBS checks

£500 joining bonus: £250 on commencement of employment and £250 on successful completion of probation.

Kisimul Group Ltd are a group of independent specialist schools and adult provisions providing exceptional residential care and award-winning education to children, young people and adults with a diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Disorder, severe and complex learning difficulties, global development delay and associated challenging behaviour.

We are proud to be awarded an outstanding company to work for as voted in our most recent companies employee survey

Kisimul is dedicated to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults, children and young people, and expects…