residential child care worker.

An exceptional opportunity has arisen to join leading children's services across Edinburgh as a Residential Childcare Worker. In this role, you will play an integral part in delivering compassionate, high-quality care to children and young people experiencing social, emotional, and behavioural difficulties, as well as complex disabilities. You will empower individuals to navigate early trauma, develop essential life skills, and thrive within a supportive, structured environment.
Whether you are seeking total control over your schedule or looking to build consistency within a primary setting, this role offers complete control over shift bookings alongside dedicated, ongoing support.
Core Perks & Benefits:

• Highly Competitive Rates: Flexible hourly pay ranging from £15.35 to £21.32 per hour, with options for PAYE or enhanced agency arrangements.
• Tailored Schedule Flexibility: Total control over your working hours: select and book your preferred shifts directly via an intuitive mobile app.
• Diverse Working Environments: Sharpen your professional skillset across multiple specialized settings, or secure consistent long-term placements at a single site.
• Professional Growth & Learning: Extensive access to industry-standard training courses and fully supported online learning modules.
• Regulatory Guidance: Direct help and streamlined administrative assistance with SSSC registration.
• Lucrative Incentive Programmes: Benefit from an uncapped friend referral bonus scheme.
• Lifestyle Perks: Access to an exclusive employee discounts app for everyday savings.
• Dedicated Specialist Support: Work in tandem with a dedicated consultant who provides one-to-one career advice and ongoing operational support.
• Fast-Track Onboarding: Immediate start dates available following initial compliance checks.

Key Responsibilities:

• Functioning collaboratively within a dynamic residential care team to uphold exceptionally high care standards.
• Providing comprehensive 24-hour care to vulnerable young people facing emotional and behavioural challenges.
• Supporting service users through trauma-informed approaches, helping build resilience and emotional regulation.
• Facilitating daily community integration, including assisting young people with school transportation, social outings, and external appointments.
• Maintaining safe, clear, and consistent professional boundaries at all times.
• Upholding full operational adherence to National Care Standards and local safeguarding protocols.
• Maintaining a flexible approach to working patterns across days, waking nights, weekends, and holiday coverage.

Requirements & Qualifications:

• Proven professional background working within a residential setting dedicated to children or young people.
• An adaptable mindset with a genuine commitment to child-centred care principles.
• Excellent interpersonal and verbal communication skills.
• Full registration with (or willingness to join) the PVG scheme.
• A valid, full UK driving licence is strongly preferred.
• SVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care (Children and Young People), or working towards an equivalent qualification, is highly desirable.

Transferable Skills & Alternative Backgrounds:
This opportunity is ideally structured for experienced Residential Childcare Workers, but application routes are also open to skilled professionals from adjacent disciplines, including:

• Youth Workers and Youth Mentors
• Community Support Practitioners
• Children's Complex Care Assistants
• Family Contact and Support Officers
• Special Educational Needs (SEN) Learning Assistants

Next Steps
To explore this opportunity immediately, submit your CV to initiate a confidential discussion with our specialist recruitment team in Edinburgh. Shortlisted applicants will receive an initial exploratory call to progress their application seamlessly.

Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.

Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.