160 Childminders jobs in the United Kingdom

Childcare Solicitor, 3+ PQE, Derbyshire, Salary - £60K - £70K DOE.

An exceptional opportunity has arisen for a dedicated Childcare Solicitor to join a respected and growing family law department.  Job reference: SW1581



THE ROLE:

• Managing a caseload of care proceedings from start to finish.

• Representing clients at court and key meetings.

• Supervising and supporting junior fee-earners.

• Liaising with local authorities, guardians and third parties.

• Ensuring compliance, billing and time recording are completed efficiently.

• Contributing to departmental growth and business development.



THE CANDIDATE:

• A qualified Solicitor with solid experience in family care law.

• You will ideally be a member of the Law Society’s Children Panel.

• A confident advocate, you’ll be skilled in managing sensitive cases with professionalism and empathy, demonstrating strong organisation and attention to detail.



THE FIRM:

• Long-established and supportive regional practice with a strong local reputation.

• Promotes a genuinely collaborative and team-focused culture.

• Demonstrates a clear commitment to staff training, development and progression.



THE PACKAGE:

• Competitive salary, depending on experience.

• High-quality and meaningful caseload.

• CPD and career development opportunities.

• Supportive, team-focused environment.

• Clear long-term progression within a growing firm.



 

Child Care Solicitor

Up to £70,000 | Progression to Partner | Bradford/Leeds Area

You’ll represent children and guardians across care proceedings, working closely with the Head of Family to shape and grow the department. A key opportunity to influence direction and develop into leadership

Why Join:

• Up to £70,000 with performance-based bonuses
• Clear progression to Partner – Equity potential
• 35-hour work week + hybrid flexibility
• Strong professional support & paid training/subscriptions

If you’re a motivated and experienced Child Care Solicitor with The Law Society Children Law Accreditation , knowledge and relationships with the local guardian panel, and keen to explore potential career development opportunities then please get in touch!

About You:

• Children Panel Accredited (essential)
• Experienced in public & private childcare law
• Skilled advocate in Magistrates & County Court
• Confident managing 25–30 active care cases
• Strong communicator with empathy & professionalism

The Role

This role comes with the opportunity to shape the future of this business and take ownership of the Care/Family department. With opportunities for a Partner title and equity potential, this is not something to be missed!

Key Responsibilities:

• Represent children/guardians in complex care cases
• Provide advocacy in Magistrates & County Court
• Manage your own caseload efficiently
• Collaborate with guardians, social workers & courts
• Support the Head of Family in driving departmental growth

If you think you’re suitable, please apply now. Alternatively contact Jonny McPartland for more details and full job advert: / / .

Child Care Solicitor

Up to £70,000 | Progression to Partner | Bradford/Leeds Area

You’ll represent children and guardians across care proceedings, working closely with the Head of Family to shape and grow the department. A key opportunity to influence direction and develop into leadership

Why Join:

• Up to £70,000 with performance-based bonuses
• Clear progression to Partner – Equity potential
• 35-hour work week + hybrid flexibility
• Strong professional support & paid training/subscriptions

If you’re a motivated and experienced Child Care Solicitor with The Law Society Children Law Accreditation , knowledge and relationships with the local guardian panel, and keen to explore potential career development opportunities then please get in touch!

About You:

• Children Panel Accredited (essential)
• Experienced in public & private childcare law
• Skilled advocate in Magistrates & County Court
• Confident managing 25–30 active care cases
• Strong communicator with empathy & professionalism

The Role

This role comes with the opportunity to shape the future of this business and take ownership of the Care/Family department. With opportunities for a Partner title and equity potential, this is not something to be missed!

Key Responsibilities:

• Represent children/guardians in complex care cases
• Provide advocacy in Magistrates & County Court
• Manage your own caseload efficiently
• Collaborate with guardians, social workers & courts
• Support the Head of Family in driving departmental growth

If you think you’re suitable, please apply now. Alternatively contact Jonny McPartland for more details and full job advert: / / .

Principal Childcare Lawyer

£51,000 - £56,403 per annum

Hybrid working - once per week in the office

Sellick Partnership is excited to be recruiting for a local authority in West Yorkshire on a permanent basis. We are seeking an experienced Childcare Lawyer to step into a Principal role.

About the Principal Childcare Lawyer opportunity:

This role is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is looking to step up into a Principal role and will provide you with the opportunity to take the lead on complex care matters, alongside the training and development of a busy and growing Childcare team.

The duties of the successful Principal Childcare Lawyer role will include:

• Directly line a small number of lawyers
• Handling a caseload of childcare matters, including pre-proceedings and care cases
• Advocacy in court
• Assisting the team with complex care cases.
• Dealing with 1:1s
• Leading on improvement of the team with policies and procedures,

The benefits of the successful Principal Childcare Lawyer role will include:

• Legal assistant support
• Fantastic training and development opportunities
• Competitive salary.
• Excellent local government pension scheme
• Flexible and hybrid working.
• Generous annual leave allowance, increasing with length of service
• Flexi time
• Salary sacrifice scheme for extra annual leave, cycle to work, home electronics and childcare vouchers.
• Family friendly policies including; excellent maternity, paternity and adoption entitlements.
• Discounts on parking

Experience required for the Principal Childcare Lawyer role:

For this role you must be a qualified Solicitor, Legal Executive or Barrister. We are keen to hear from candidates that have a good understanding of childcare law but previous management experience isn't essential.

This role will provide you with the perfect opportunity to prove yourself in a dynamic team environment.

How to apply for the Principal Childcare Lawyer role:

If you are interested in the Principal Childcare Lawyer opportunity, please apply by CV immediately to be considered for shortlisting. Alternatively, should you require further information or wish to discuss your suitability before applying, please contact Sara Robinson in the Sellick Partnership Manchester office.

Sellick Partnership is proud to be an inclusive and accessible recruitment business and we support applications from candidates of all backgrounds and circumstances. Please note, our advertisements use years' experience, hourly rates, and salary levels purely as a guide and we assess applications based on the experience and skills evidenced on the CV. For information on how your personal details may be used by Sellick Partnership, please review our data processing notice on our website.

Residential Childcare Support Worker

Location : Carlisle

Contract Type : Part-time, permanent

Specific Hours : 30 hours per week - shift pattern

Unqualified Basic Salary: £19,843.20 pro rata £7,781.80 FTE) per annum with a potential to earn up to 3,100.48 with sleep in shifts

Qualified Basic Salary: 0,514 pro rata ( 8,719.60 FTE) per annum with a potential to earn up to 3,771.28 with sleep in shif.

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Residential Childcare Support Worker

Location : Headsnook, Brampton (as well as other locations in Carlisle)

Contract Type : Full-time, permanent

Specific Hours : 42 hours per week - shift pattern

Salary: Unqualified: A base salary of £27,781.80 per annum with the potential to earn up to £1,039.08 with sleep in shifts

Qualified: A base salary of 8,719.60 per annum with the potential to earn up to 1,976.88 with sleep in shifts

(Qualified Care Worker salary is based on the proven existing completion of a Level 3 Diploma for Residential Childcare)

North Lakes Children's Services is a well-established local provider of residential care and education for boys aged 6-18. We improve the resilience, self-esteem and abilities of all the young people we work with.

As a Residential Support Worker there is a high expectation placed on you to be "strong, committed and passionate" about your role. The young people are at the centre of everything we do - both for and with them. You are a role model, a listening ear, a warm and approachable person and potentially someone who could inspire and make a massive and significant impact on a young person's life, their choices, who they are and who they can be! You need to promote, support and facilitate the creation of "happy memories" and have fun with them to do so.

We are currently seeking permanent Support Workers to join our team who have a warm and approachable manner, and feel they can make a significant impact on a young person's life in how they recover from early life experiences.

Main Duties

In each home we have detailed shift planners/diaries/handover documents that will outline the specific daily duties and tasks that you will be required to complete, these will be specific to whether it is term-time (school days) or during holiday periods as some of the tasks will differ. The following is a summary of some of your duties during term-time

• Supporting all of the boys daily routines, including getting them up, promoting personal hygiene routines, meals, either school runs or activities
• Supporting room cleans/developing of life skills/independence, promoting socialisation and supporting bed-time routines
• Attending medical/other appointments
• Supporting the plans on the activity planners
• Completion of day sheets for the boys and working with them on their targets
• Completing handover documents/ tasks
• Completion of all daily paperwork
• Completing budgeting requirements
• Completion of daily room checks and daily housecleaning tasks
• Complete any food/other shopping needs, including meal preparation and kitchen hygiene/laundry duties
• Completion of any specific checks such as COSHH, Fire Checks/Car checks
• Liaising and building appropriate relationships with the families, working to find out about special dates for boys and ensuring these are noted/marked, sorting and planning family time contacts

As well as completing the daily tasks, your role will also include being a Keyworker. This should be a privileged role for you with our boys, try to think out of the box and do that little bit extra to help create special occasions and opportunities for them, build strong bonds, show and display warmth, empathy and genuine care.

All Applicants must have:

• Flexibility in your availability is a must as the role will involve sleep in nights and shift work of 14 hours - typically 2 full days on, 2 days off. Rotating start times of 08:00, 12:00, 14:00
• Have an understanding of the issues that face young people in care
• Hold Residential Childcare/Families Practitioner Diploma/Children and Young People's Workforce/NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care or equivalent - or be willing to work towards a required qualification
• Excellent communication and listening skills
• Be willing to learn
• Be able to work well as part of a small team
• Be willing to undertake a DBS check at enhanced level if successful for the position. Your DBS check shall be paid for by ourselves
• Experience with Emotional Behavioural Disorder, Social/Residential Work or Youth Work would be advantageous.
• Have a full, clean UK driving licence and be able to cover at other Residential Homes as and when needed.

This is a wonderful opportunity to join an established Children's service who will offer you:

• A sleep-in allowance of 2.64 per night- potential extra earning of up to
• Up to 6 week's holiday per year
• A rota pattern of 2 days on, 2 days off, with staggered start times ranging from 8am, 12noon or 2pm (i.e. 8am-10pm, 12pm-10pm or 2pm-10pm)
• All meals on duty are provided
• Company pension
• Access to our Exchange Employee Discount Scheme
• Access to wellbeing programmes via our Exchange Provision
• Comprehensive training programme, followed by a comprehensive and ongoing CPD Programme
• Access to qualifications (Including Diploma 3/Diploma 5)
• Promotion opportunities
• Monthly clinical and professional supervisions, access to therapeutic support

North Lakes Children's Services is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. The company committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.

Residential Childcare Support Worker

Location : Doncaster

Base Location: With services in Pontefract, Wakefield, Doncaster, Eggborough and Barnsley we currently have vacancies throughout

Contract Type : Part time, permanent

Salary : Unqualified: Base salary of £19,812 with a potential to earn up to a total of £4,132 with sleep in shifts.

Qualified (full diploma Level 3 qualified or equivalent): Base salary of 0,233.20 with a potential to earn up to a total of 4,553.20 with sleep in shifts.

Specific Hours : 30 hours per week

Do you want to work in a role that makes a positive difference to young people's lives? Are you looking for the next step in your career with a company that will support and train you?

Dove Adolescent Services are looking for Residential Childcare Support Workers to join our new home in Doncaster . As part of our team, you will help provide flexible, individual residential care packages for children and young people. Our goal is to transform lives by being passionate, innovative, and invested in everything we do.

To achieve the ambitions we have for our young people, we know it takes a passionate team who share our vision - to see children follow their dreams and reach their full potential. Working at Dove Adolescent Services, you will be joining a supportive and collaborative team which recognises you as an individual.

We invest heavily in the continued professional development of our employees - that's why our Operations Directors and the majority of our Home Managers all began their careers at Dove as Residential Childcare Support Workers and worked their way up.

As a Young Persons Support Worker, your day isn't always spent in one of our Residential Children's Homes… walking or biking the Pennine trails, catching the latest film at the cinema or thrill seeking at a theme park is all on the agenda - the list is endless and all depends on the interests of our young people.

Your main duties and requirements would include, but not are not limited to:

• Promoting, safeguarding and protecting the welfare of our young people
• Establishing and maintaining positive and trusting relationships with our young people
• Encouraging the development of the individual interests of our young people
• A desire to learn, we provide full training for you to achieve a Childcare Diploma Level 3/ Apprenticeship Level 4

What do we need from you?

• Experience of supporting young people who may be vulnerable is desired but not essential
• Understanding and commitment to the role - including some weekends and bank holidays
• Undertake sleep-in duties as part of a flexible rota
• Participating in activities and ensuring we provide young people with a place they feel at home
• Be capable of working on your own initiative
• Have good inter-personal skills and be a positive team player
• A desire to engage, motivate and encourage the young people in our homes

What do we offer?

• Full training provided to gain a recognised qualification
• £4 paid per sleep in shift (average 7-8 a month)
• Company pension
• Employee discount scheme offering savings with over 740 retailers including all the major supermarkets, hundreds of high street shops and a wide range of restaurants.
• Refer a Friend programme - unlimited at 00 for each person referred to work with us
• Childcare voucher scheme
• Holiday pay
• Meals included

We are part of the Polaris Community, one of the largest providers of children's services, and our community of services span the length and breadth of the whole of the UK. Our nurturing community works collectively to support the very best outcomes for each and every child in our care. We're ambitious for our children and young people, families and staff, and believe in their futures.

We are proud of our quality - 100% of our inspected services are rated by Ofsted as good or outstanding.

Whether you're an experienced Residential Childcare Support Worker or want a new career path that allows you to have a positive impact on young people in your community, we'd love to hear from you.

Dove Adolescent Services is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. The company is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be subject to a DBS check at enhanced level if successful for the position.

Residential Childcare Support Worker

Location : Wigton

Contract Type : Part-time, permanent

Specific Hours : 30 hours per week - shift pattern

Unqualified Basic Salary: £19,843.20 pro rata £7,781.80 FTE) per annum with a potential to earn up to 3,100.48 with sleep in shifts

Qualified Basic Salary: 0,514 pro rata ( 8,719.60 FTE) per annum with a potential to earn up to 3,771.28 with sleep in shifts.

(Qualified Care Worker salary is based on the proven existing completion of a Level 3 Diploma for Residential Childcare)

North Lakes Children's Services is a well-established local provider of residential care and education for boys aged 6-18. We improve the resilience, self-esteem and abilities of all the young people we work with.

As a Residential Support Worker there is a high expectation placed on you to be "strong, committed and passionate" about your role. The young people are at the centre of everything we do - both for and with them. You are a role model, a listening ear, a warm and approachable person and potentially someone who could inspire and make a massive and significant impact on a young person's life, their choices, who they are and who they can be! You need to promote, support and facilitate the creation of "happy memories" and have fun with them to do so.

We are currently seeking permanent Support Workers to join our team who have a warm and approachable manner, and feel they can make a significant impact on a young person's life in how they recover from early life experiences.

Main Duties

In each home we have detailed shift planners/diaries/handover documents that will outline the specific daily duties and tasks that you will be required to complete, these will be specific to whether it is term-time (school days) or during holiday periods as some of the tasks will differ. The following is a summary of some of your duties during term-time

• Supporting all of the boys daily routines, including getting them up, promoting personal hygiene routines, meals, either school runs or activities
• Supporting room cleans/developing of life skills/independence, promoting socialisation and supporting bed-time routines
• Attending medical/other appointments
• Supporting the plans on the activity planners
• Completion of day sheets for the boys and working with them on their targets
• Completing handover documents/ tasks
• Completion of all daily paperwork
• Completing budgeting requirements
• Completion of daily room checks and daily housecleaning tasks
• Complete any food/other shopping needs, including meal preparation and kitchen hygiene/laundry duties
• Completion of any specific checks such as COSHH, Fire Checks/Car checks
• Liaising and building appropriate relationships with the families, working to find out about special dates for boys and ensuring these are noted/marked, sorting and planning family time contacts

As well as completing the daily tasks, your role will also include being a Keyworker. This should be a privileged role for you with our boys, try to think out of the box and do that little bit extra to help create special occasions and opportunities for them, build strong bonds, show and display warmth, empathy and genuine care.

All Applicants must have:

• Flexibility in your availability is a must as the role will involve sleep in nights and shift work of 14 hours - typically 2 full days on, 2 days off. Rotating start times of 08:00, 12:00, 14:00
• Have an understanding of the issues that face young people in care
• Hold Residential Childcare/Families Practitioner Diploma/Children and Young People's Workforce/NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care or equivalent - or be willing to work towards a required qualification
• Excellent communication and listening skills
• Be willing to learn
• Be able to work well as part of a small team
• Be willing to undertake a DBS check at enhanced level if successful for the position. Your DBS check shall be paid for by ourselves
• Experience with Emotional Behavioural Disorder, Social/Residential Work or Youth Work would be advantageous.
• Have a full, clean UK driving licence and be able to cover at other Residential Homes as and when needed.

This is a wonderful opportunity to join an established Children's service who will offer you:

• A sleep-in allowance of 2.64 per night- potential extra earning of up to
• Up to 6 week's holiday per year
• A rota pattern of 2 days on, 2 days off, with staggered start times ranging from 8am, 12noon or 2pm (i.e. 8am-10pm, 12pm-10pm or 2pm-10pm)
• All meals on duty are provided
• Company pension
• Access to our Exchange Employee Discount Scheme
• Access to wellbeing programmes via our Exchange Provision
• Comprehensive training programme, followed by a comprehensive and ongoing CPD Programme
• Access to qualifications (Including Diploma 3/Diploma 5)
• Promotion opportunities
• Monthly clinical and professional supervisions, access to therapeutic support

North Lakes Children's Services is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. The company committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.

Residential Childcare Support Worker

Location : Yorkshire

Base Location: With services in Pontefract, Wakefield, Doncaster, Eggborough and Barnsley we currently have vacancies throughout

Contract Type : Full time, permanent

Salary : Unqualified: Base salary of £25,755.60 with the potential to earn up to a total of £1,155.60 with sleep in shifts.

Qualified (full diploma Level 3 qualified or equivalent): Base salary of 6,303.16 with the potential to earn up to a total of 1,703.16 with sleep in shifts.

Specific Hours : 39 hours per week

Do you want to work in a role that makes a positive difference to young people's lives? Are you looking for the next step in your career with a company that will support and train you?

Dove Adolescent Services are looking for Residential Childcare Support Workers to join our team. As part of our team, you will help provide flexible, individual residential care packages for children and young people. Our goal is to transform lives by being passionate, innovative, and invested in everything we do.

To achieve the ambitions we have for our young people, we know it takes a passionate team who share our vision - to see children follow their dreams and reach their full potential. Working at Dove Adolescent Services, you will be joining a supportive and collaborative team which recognises you as an individual.

We invest heavily in the continued professional development of our employees - that's why our Operations Directors and the majority of our Home Managers all began their careers at Dove as Residential Childcare Support Workers and worked their way up.

As a Young Persons Support Worker, your day isn't always spent in one of our Residential Children's Homes… walking or biking the Pennine trails, catching the latest film at the cinema or thrill seeking at a theme park is all on the agenda - the list is endless and all depends on the interests of our young people.

Your main duties and requirements would include, but not are not limited to:

• Promoting, safeguarding and protecting the welfare of our young people
• Establishing and maintaining positive and trusting relationships with our young people
• Encouraging the development of the individual interests of our young people
• A desire to learn, we provide full training for you to achieve a Childcare Diploma Level 3/ Apprenticeship Level 4

What do we need from you?

• Experience of supporting young people who may be vulnerable is desired but not essential
• Understanding and commitment to the role - including some weekends and bank holidays
• Undertake sleep-in duties as part of a flexible rota
• Participating in activities and ensuring we provide young people with a place they feel at home
• Be capable of working on your own initiative
• Have good inter-personal skills and be a positive team player
• A desire to engage, motivate and encourage the young people in our homes

What do we offer?

• Full training provided to gain a recognised qualification
• £4 paid per sleep in shift (average 8-10 a month)
• Company pension
• Employee discount scheme offering savings with over 740 retailers including all the major supermarkets, hundreds of high street shops and a wide range of restaurants.
• Refer a Friend programme - unlimited at 00 for each person referred to work with us
• Childcare voucher scheme
• Holiday pay
• Meals included

We are part of the Polaris Community, one of the largest providers of children's services, and our community of services span the length and breadth of the whole of the UK. Our nurturing community works collectively to support the very best outcomes for each and every child in our care. We're ambitious for our children and young people, families and staff, and believe in their futures.

We are proud of our quality - 100% of our inspected services are rated by Ofsted as good or outstanding.

Whether you're an experienced Residential Childcare Support Worker or want a new career path that allows you to have a positive impact on young people in your community, we'd love to hear from you.

Dove Adolescent Services is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. The company is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be subject to a DBS check at enhanced level if successful for the position.