Senior Residential Childcare Practitioner

Lockerbie, United Kingdom | Posted on 30/09/2026

Our mission is to support young people to recover from trauma, live fulfilled lifestyles and engage in lifelong learning to transition on to positive destinations.

Our vision is to be the most trusted therapeutic care and education provider throughout the UK. We trust our staff to help support and nurture our young people to have the best outcomes.

Our difference is that we believe in a holistic approach: that the smallest details can mean a world of difference to a vulnerable young person.

We sweat the small stuff.

Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway

From £38,543 to £43,136 OTEplus overtime at time and a half

The Greenleaf Team

We’re looking for peopleto join our team who share our beliefs. We want team members who'llnever give up on our young people, who are compassionate and who believe that our young people deserve the best we can give them.

We specialise in solo placements for young people in care up to the age of 21 and adopt atherapeutic, trauma-informed approach to care. In our work, we uphold

Greenleaf’s values of Integrity, Compassion, Excellence,Collaboration, and Respect.

If it’s your ambition tocreate a future filled with hope and optimism for our young people, wewould love to hear from you.

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Role Overview

You will be part of aunique team who will work together to facilitate excellent practice and shape the development of our Service. As a Senior practitioner,you will lead your team to excellence.

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This role involves completing 14-hour shifts followed by a 10-hour sleepover. This is a 2 day on, 3 day off shift pattern.

Our vision is for every young person who lives with us to experience a safe, happy and nurturing present and a future that is filled with hope and optimism.

You will contribute to this by ensuring high standards of care and support.

We look after children and young people from a variety of backgrounds, who have experienced trauma or adverse life experiences and need specialist therapeutic support in a small residential setting. To succeed in this role, youwill be compassionate, patient, nurturing, and therapeutic in your approach to care. You will believe in and strive for continuous improvement and professional development both for yourself and foryour team.

The young people in ourhomes are with us 24/7 and deserve a safe and caring environment wherethey can grow and achieve positive outcomes. You will demonstrate adrive for supporting, motivating, supervising and mentoring high performing teams to ensure that they achieve good outcomes for young people.

You will demonstrate excellent prioritisation and allocation of high-level needs, including involvement in child protection and outcome focused interventions. Youwill believe in the benefits of a mindful, team approach placing thechild at the centre of the care plan whilst being committed to partnership working by practicing this methodology with all stakeholders.

Our progression pathway sallow Senior practitioners to benefit from further training and opportunities for progressing onto managerial positions within the company. Through this initiative, progression within Greenleaf canoccur quickly, creating a stepping stone to management roles.

With greater expectations come greater rewards. If you’re selected to become partof the Greenleaf family, you’ll not only enjoy a salary that’shigher that the sector average, but you’ll also enjoy acomprehensive benefits package, including:

• 29 days holiday entitlement, increasing with every twoyears of service
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) with a 24/7wellbeing line and free counselling
• Company-funded qualifications and support from an internal assessor – we can deliver SVQ 3 and 4 and HNC in social…