Residential Child & Young People Support Worker Apprenticeship - London

Summary

We are looking for a new apprentice to join our Ofsted Outstanding team. Do you have the resilient and proactive approach needed to make a real difference in young people’s futures? At Reamcare, we believe in championing our workforce, so they can do the same for others.

Wage

£24,862.50 a year

Training course

Children, young people and families practitioner (level 4)

Hours

Shifts TBC 7am-3pm or 2pm-10pm (Includes Weekends and Evenings).

37 hours a week

Start date

Saturday 5 September 2026

Duration

2 years

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

The Lighthouse Children's Home provides care for children with autism and learning disabilities and is based in London. This is an excellent opportunity to work flexible hours and to gain experience working with children and young people with special needs in a caring environment. 

• Ensuring the highest standards of care in relation to the children's physical, behavioural, and emotional needs.
• Supporting young people to do their favourite things and try new activities at home and outdoor activities.
• Providing high-quality care to young people.

This apprenticeship will offer great experience for working in residential care with children with autism and learning disabilities. We have a great team to support the apprentices. 

Responsibilities: Support Worker

• Providing quality and consistent care to help meet the social, emotional, and behavioural needs of residents.
• Provide personal care for the young people.
• Supporting young people to do their favourite things and to try new activities, both at home and outdoors.
• Promoting the safety, welfare, and protection of the children and young people we care for at all times.
• Complete all training required.
• Act as a positive role model for children, young people and other staff in the home. .

Benefits:

• Flexible hours.
• 28 days annual leave, increasing to 30 days after 5 years
• Health cash plan offering reimbursements for everyday healthcare costs.
• Access to free counselling support 24/7 365 days a year.
• Generous loyalty bonus scheme.
• Travel loan to help you manage commute costs.
• Fully-funded specialist in-house training.

Where you'll work

2 Berrylands Road
Surbiton
KT5 8RA

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

PARAGON EDUCATION & SKILLS LIMITED

Training course

Children, young people and families practitioner (level 4)

What you'll learn

Course contents

• Communicates in way that enables the voice of the child, young person or family members to be heard
• Encourages individuals to engage positively with their community and relevant agencies and actively participate in the way their care and support is delivered
• Actively promotes respect, equality, diversity and inclusion
• Works together with children, young people and families to keep them safe and manage risk and promoting the development of skills the family need to successfully manage risk themselves
• Works with and supports other professionals to respond to safeguarding concerns
• Identifies the influences on the individual and the family and supports them to make informed choices
• Leads on the development and recording of holistic plans, delivery of interventions and evaluates their effectiveness
• Identifies and addresses barriers to accessing resources
• Identifies and manages evidence-based approaches and evaluates their effectiveness
• Contributes to the development of a resilient, consistent and persistent approach to practice
• Models clarity of purpose, clear expectations and a professional approach to decision making
• Appropriately challenges and/or offers alternative perspectives with the children, young person or family
• Contributes to own professional development
• Applies knowledge of legal, economic and social justice systems and implements policy frameworks in support of positive outcomes for children, young people and families
• Demonstrates critical evaluation of practice and insight into own emotions, behaviour and feelings, and uses these insights to challenge own practice
• Takes an active part in continuous professional development
• Sharing and agreeing goals and outcomes when building relationships with partner organisations, other workers, children, young people and families, to ensure appropriate and timely support
• Assumes the role of professional parent
• Contributes to creating and reviewing placement plans based on individual need
• Is able to support traumatised children and young people to live together and make progress
• Develops and promotes the ethos of the home
• Models collaborative team working and the ability to support and appropriately challenge each other
• Engages effectively with child, young person and/or family members
• Supports children, young people or vulnerable adults to identify and take action to deal with safeguarding risk

Training schedule

Paragon Skills is an award-winning, Ofsted-rated ‘Good’, national apprenticeship provider inspiring over 10,000 learners annually and working with over 3000 businesses to deliver apprenticeships in a high-quality, consistent way. Our dedicated focus on the Care and Education sectors means we are deeply rooted within these sectors and have in-depth knowledge and understanding of what is required from a training perspective. Upon completion of this 24-month apprenticeship, you will have obtained your Children, Young People and Families Practitioner (Residential) L4 Apprenticeship.

Requirements

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

• Creative
• Initative
• Logical
• Non judgemental
• Patience
• Teamworking
• Communication Skills

Other requirements

The closing date guidance, if a successful candidate is found before the advertised dates, the advert will close early.