Job Title: Residential Practitioner
Post requires candidate to be entitled for work: No
DBS Check Level: Enhanced Child List
Salary Range: £44,974.88 to £59,481.93
Contract Type: Permanent
Full time/Part Time: Full Time
Term Time only post: No
Advert Closing Date: 19/07/2026
Job Overview
Residential Childcare Practitioner (Qualified and Trainee)
Every day our team provide a loving home. Every day they make a difference.
You can provide our young people with the hope and help they need to reach every success in life. Join us to provide the support every young person deserves. Ensuring the safety, well-being and promotion of positive outcomes for all young people in their care.
We’re recruiting Residential Practitioners at both Level 3 qualified (£52,879 - £59,481) and Trainee level (£44,974 - £50,589) so if you have some experience or are starting your career please get in touch - lovinghomesrecruitment@gov.je
What you will do:
Support young people within the home by planning, assessing and reviewing their goals and aspirations in relation to their well-being, health, education and behaviours and documenting this accordingly.
Promote and demonstrate expected behaviours by building positive relationships, structures and routines, ensuring these are understood clearly by the children & young people and behaviour is managed consistently, fairly, respectfully and the children & young people are treated with dignity at all times.
Confidently respond to accidents, incidents and emergencies reaching sound and logical decisions that ensures safeguarding and protection for children & young people in the home.
Ensure the appropriate use of facilities and equipment within the care home as well as ensuring the accommodation and facilities are comfortable, safe, and accessible and take appropriate action to raise concerns if not at the required level within the home.
How we support and empower you:
If you’re not already qualified we will fully fund and provide training to help you become qualified in the Level 3 Diploma in Children’s Residential Services.
Hours:
You will work a mixture of morning, afternoon and overnight shifts.
For an informal discussion please contact us via lovinghomesrecruitment@gov.je
Job Purpose
Jersey Public Service Careers
Across the Jersey Public Service, the scope of our work means our people enjoy a wide range of opportunities—working with recognised experts across teams, learning new skills, and developing their careers. We actively seek to recruit people from different backgrounds with diverse perspectives, creating a richer, more varied environment where you’re exposed to new ideas, new ways of thinking, and new opportunities to build an exciting and rewarding career.
To maintain the highest standards of public service, we have a rigorous screening process, to ensure candidates align with our values, skills, and professional requirements. This helps us create a trusted, capable workforce that can deliver excellence and safeguard our community.
For regulated activity roles (working with children and adults at risk of harm), an enhanced level of screening will be conducted to include enhanced DBS checks.
Extraordinary, every day.