Residential Care Officer Level 1 – Lincolnshire Secure Unit
Working pattern: Full‑time, permanent; shift pattern including weekdays, weekends and bank holidays.
Location: Lincolnshire Secure Unit, Sleaford, Lincolnshire.
Salary: £30,024 – £32,597 (Pay Award Pending).
Overview
The role is to encourage and enable children to achieve their maximum potential while respecting the rights of the child and enabling them to assume responsibility for their actions commensurate with their age, ability and aptitude. It involves mentoring children and young people who can display sometimes extreme challenging behaviour, creating a safe environment using a trauma‑informed approach to support the best possible outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Encourage and enable children to achieve their maximum potential whilst respecting the rights of the child.
- Enable children to assume responsibility for their actions commensurate with their age, ability and aptitude.
- Engage with children and young people to develop new skills, improve their social skills and life choices, while modelling constructive social behaviour and setting boundaries.
- Provide care and control to young people who can display aggressive and challenging behaviour.
- Create a safe environment for the young people, using a trauma‑informed approach to support the best possible outcomes.
Qualifications
- Enthusiasm – enjoy what you do and want to help young people.
- Resilience – quickly bounce back from challenging situations.
- Innovation – develop new activities and think creatively.
- Flexibility – react and adapt to change on a daily basis.
- Team ethics – succeed together by supporting one another.
- Hard working – required to complete a fully funded QCF3 in residential childcare.
- Fluency Duty – ability to converse at ease in accurate spoken English.
Lincolnshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Applications close on 31/08/2026. Interviews will be held week commencing 07/09/2026.
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