Key Worker – Children’s Home

Job description

Contract terms

Starting salary: SC6 (£35,520 – £36,585)
Work location: Haslemere Childrens Home, Haringey
Hours per week: 36 per week
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: Sunday, 19th April 2026 at 23:59
Expected interview date: W/C 27th April 2026

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the role

As a Key Worker within Haslemere’s Children’s Services, you will play a vital role in supporting children and young people with complex needs to achieve positive outcomes. Working within our Adolescent Mentalization‑Based Integrative Therapy (AMBIT) model, you will plan, implement, and review personalised support plans that reflect each young person’s wishes, needs, and goals. Your responsibilities will include helping young people develop essential life skills, supporting them through transitions, producing accurate records and reports, and ensuring safeguarding, health and safety, and care standards are met at all times. This is a hands‑on role where you will make a meaningful impact every day.

About the team

You will be part of the Haslemere residential team—an experienced, dedicated, and compassionate group committed to providing a safe, nurturing, and empowering environment for young people. The team works collaboratively with families, carers, external professionals, schools, health partners, and other agencies to ensure a coordinated approach to each young person’s care. We value teamwork, reflective practice, and a supportive working culture where staff work shifts across a 24/7 rota, including evenings, nights, weekends, and bank holidays, to meet the needs of the children in our care.

About you

You will bring experience of supporting young people ideally within a residential or statutory setting and a Level 3 qualification in Health and Social Care or equivalent. You’ll have strong communication skills, the ability to build trusting and therapeutic relationships, and a commitment to trauma‑informed and person‑centred practice. You’ll be proactive, resilient, and able to work both independently and as part of a wider multi‑agency network. A good understanding of safeguarding, diversity, autism, and the varying needs of young people is essential, along with the flexibility to work shifts and support activities, trips, and appointments.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.  Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.  

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