residential children's practitioner.

Child Support worker roles available in Bathgate within a residential service and school. With a salary of £19,000-£24,000(DOE) plus sleepover allowances, based on a 40 hour working week. The service supports young people ages 8-18 years old with emotional and social difficulties to continue their education. Your skills as a prison officer are easily transferable into the role of a child support worker. You will find similar themes of boundaries, respect, rehabilitation are all present. Use your emotional intelligence and de-escalation skills to establish and maintain connections with young people. Support the development of vulnerable young people, whilst developing your own career!


What can Randstad offer you?
- Competitive rates
- Great service with therapy animals on site
- Close knit team with flexible rotas
- Excellent career progressions; the service is keen to promote from within
- Opportunity for overtime in other services
- Unlimited friend referral bonuses
- Immediate start
- Extensive training in industry standard courses supported by online learning
- Help with SSSC registration
- Employee discount app
- Support from within the team and a dedicated Randstad consultant



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 4 service users in rural cottage
- Taking service users out into the community and to school each day
- Ensuring professional boundaries are in place
- 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 Rebecca Prentice a call on 013 1240 0887 for a confidential chat or email

Not the role for you?
We are always looking for talented residential support workers across Scotland, 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.