Residential Childcare Worker

Can you make a child feel at home?

Looking for an engaging role within a residential school setting?

If the answer is yes, then we need you!

Child Support worker roles available in Burntisland within the residential unit of a specialised school. The service supports young people ages 10-18 years old with emotional and social difficulties to engage in education and develop their social and life skills. The service has consistently received 5s and 6s from the care inspectorate over the past 10 years and has a great reputation in the local community. You will be joining a team from diverse care backgrounds working cooperatively to achieve the best outcomes for the children in their care.

What can Randstad offer a child support worker?

-Competitive rates

-Employee discount scheme

-Unlimited friend referral bonuses

-Immediate start

-Free parking

-Extensive training in industry standard courses supported by online learning

-Help with SSSC registration

-Support from a dedicated Randstad consultant to guide you through the process

-Excellent career progression opportunities

-Opportunities to complete HNC, SVQ 3 and other training courses

A successful child support worker will be responsible for:

-Working effectively as part of a team of child support workers

- Providing 24 hours care to a vulnerable young people

-supporting 5-8 service users in residential units

-Taking service users out into the community

-Maintaining professional manner and working to National Care Standards

-Working to a flexible schedule, including night shifts, weekends and bank holidays and Christmas period

To be successful in your application, you will:

- Have previous experience working in a residential setting with young people

-Have flexibility in the roles undertaken

-Have strong communication skills

-Register under the PVG scheme

-Full driving licence

-Obtained, or working towards SVQ level 3 in Health and Social Care, or equivalent desirable

If this sounds like the position for you, don't delay!

Apply now and one of our team may call you for an informal chat to take your application to the next stage. Alternatively, if you would like some more information give Scott a call on for a confidential chat or email

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.