Jobs

Residential Worker

Permanent, Full Time

£26,284 to £33,256 per annum, plus 10% allowance

Location: Clacton on Sea

Closing Date: Sunday 12th April 2026 at 11.59pm.

Role Location - Magdalen Close Hostel, Clacton-on-Sea, C015 3LS.

Please note that this position is for 37 hours per week over a mixture of shifts covering from a 7am start to a 10pm finish across a 7-days a week / 365 days a year working pattern including working every other weekend.

A 10% allowance paid monthly alongside your basis salary is added to basic salary due to the early starts, late finishes, and weekend working.

ECC Adult Social Care, through effective practice, is moving towards a transformational shift from a focus on long-term care support, to a model with four key principles: - prevention; early intervention; enablement and safeguarding.

This will enable people, their families, and carers to be able to access information and tools to live healthily and independently. Providing an opportunity to respond pro-actively to growing service demand in a sustainable way, within the financial constraints of the Council.

Magdalen Close is a dynamic forward thinking residential resource, which focuses on supporting adults with a learning disability and or autism for a period of assessment and skill development.

About You

You must be an experienced carer and work in a person centred manner, that is flexible and reliable. You must have previous experience in this field and be able to hit the ground running. Full training is provided, and induction is paid.

This job role will be part of a larger team, supporting adults with a learning disability and or autism, to learn new everyday living skills in readiness to move on in the future to accommodation that will continue to support their needs in. This could include residential setting, supported living schemes or general housing.

This role will be focused on being a committed, flexible, and passionate member of a team working within a residential/short break service to ensure the provision of a high quality service for adults. The role will work collaboratively with adults, their families, and other professionals in a residential home environment.

The role will support adults in accordance with their care plans and ensuring access to social and leisure activities according to their needs and wishes. The role also includes the continuous monitoring of individuals emotional and general wellbeing.

Accountabilities

• Provides support to individuals to ensure they are able to reach their optimum independence and can exert control in their everyday lives, in accordance with the care plan.
• Supports individuals/groups to access social and leisure activities which may include college classes, resource centres, community access, and other activities.
• Monitoring individual emotional and general wellbeing on a daily basis and ensure the protection of adults from abuse, reporting any concerns to senior managers.
• Support individuals to make choices in a way that always respects their dignity and privacy and promotes their choice in accordance with the care plan and any other key documents.
• Ensure respectful, patient, and courteous approaches are undertaken with adults, their families, visitors, and colleagues whether within the home or out in the community.
• Undertakes accurate and legible recording to ensure it meets the Care Quality Commission standards and positively promote Adult Social Care.
• Specific individual and shared targets and objectives are defined annually within the performance management framework.

The Experience You Will Bring

• Experience within a social care setting and working within a team environment.
• Good communication skills and an ability to develop a rapport and engage with diverse groups of individuals.
• Awareness of a person entered approach and respect for dignity and privacy, promoting choice.
• Understanding of and the ability to develop knowledge of the needs of individuals and legislation in respect of Vulnerable Adults, Mental Capacity and other such relevant legislation policy and procedure as appropriate.
• Educated to RQF Level 3 (GCSE) or equivalent by experience with a willingness to achieve the award within 24 months of starting the role.
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Willing to undertake training in the following if not already completed: Manual Handling, First Aid Awareness, Food Hygiene, Risk and Conflict Management, Data Protection and Health and Safety and other core training is relevant to the role.

What we offer in return

We'll support you to be to your best, with the resources, training, and development to empower you. With flexible working options and other lifestyle benefits, we'll enable you to make the most of your life outside work, too.

Whatever you want to achieve in your social care career, you can do it here.

The role requires you to be mobile throughout a wider operational area including travelling around the county of Essex and beyond, transporting service users and their belongings and to be able to do so in an emergency. Driving licence and car or the ability to meet the mobility requirements of the role through other means is essential.

Company: Essex County Council

Salary: £26284.00 - £33256.00 per annum + + 10% Additional Allowance

Location: England, Essex, Clacton-On-Sea, Essex

Sector: Health and Social Care

Sector: Adult Services

Sector: Social Care

Job Role: Social Worker

Job Role: Support Worker