Waking Night Crisis Support Worker

Your Role

• Provide compassionate, trauma-informed care
• Build positive relationships and encourage healthy routines
• Prepare meals, support education, and develop life skills
• Advocate for young people and ensure their voices are heard
• Support medical appointments and community activities
• Transport young people using your own vehicle when required
• Help them move confidently towards independence

• Experience working with children or young people (paid or voluntary)
• Full UK driving licence and own vehicle
• Patience, empathy, and resilience
• Flexibility to work waking nights, weekends, and sleep‑ins when required
• Enhanced DBS (or willingness to obtain one)
• A NVQ Level 3 in Children’s Residential Care (or equivalent) is desirable but not essential.

• £17.50–£24.00 per hour PAYE (including holiday pay)
• £20.00–£28.00 per hour Umbrella

• Online and face‑to‑face training in safeguarding, trauma‑informed practice, positive behaviour support, and more
• Clear career progression opportunities, including Senior Support Worker roles

• Flexible agency shifts
• Casual dress
• Company pension
• Referral bonuses

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All appointments are subject to satisfactory safer recruitment checks which includes an Enhanced DBS Check.

This position is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore all shortlisted candidates must disclose any convictions or cautions that are not protected under current filtering legislation.