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Children's Home Recruitment in Berkshire

Your Recruit’s children’s homes team places Registered Managers, Support Workers and residential care specialists across Berkshire and the surrounding area.

How it works

Specialist Recruitment for Children's Homes in Berkshire

A straightforward process for recruiting qualified staff to fill your vacancies in Children's Homes.

From Reading and Slough to Windsor, Maidenhead, Bracknell, Wokingham and West Berkshire, YourRecruit connects children’s homes with the people who make them work: experienced Registered Managers, Deputy Managers, Residential Support Workers, Senior Support Workers and children’s residential care specialists.

We recruit for established providers, growing organisations and new children’s homes across Berkshire, combining local market knowledge with more than 30 years of recruitment experience.

A little bit about Berkshire…

Here’s something you might not know: Berkshire hasn’t actually had a county council since 1998. It was divided into six separate unitary authorities, but the Berkshire identity remained and it is still proudly known as the Royal County.

Perhaps that is quite fitting for children’s residential care too. There isn’t one single Berkshire recruitment market. Reading, Slough, Windsor, Maidenhead, Bracknell, Wokingham and the more rural areas of West Berkshire each have their own challenges when it comes to attracting and retaining experienced residential childcare professionals.

That’s why we don’t recruit by simply putting “Berkshire” into a job advert and hoping for the best. We look at the location of the home, realistic travelling distances, local candidate availability, qualifications, experience and, most importantly, whether the individual is genuinely right for the children, the home and the provider.

What recruitment looks like in Berkshire

We support children’s residential providers across Berkshire with permanent recruitment from Residential Support Worker level through to senior operational appointments. Whether you are opening a new children’s home, strengthening an existing team or looking for your own next move within residential childcare, our specialist team would be pleased to hear from you.

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Berkshire vacancies

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Specialist roles

Roles we place in Berkshire

From registered managers to day-to-day support, here's where our Berkshire desk is most active.

Registered Managers

Temporary and bank cover for Registered Manager absence, keeping continuity of Ofsted-registered leadership.

Deputy Manager

Temporary and bank cover for Deputy Manager roles, supporting the home through short-notice gaps.

Responsible Individual

Bank cover for planned RI absence and holiday periods, working alongside your existing leadership team to maintain oversight.

Registered Manager

Temporary and bank cover for Registered Manager absence, keeping continuity of Ofsted-registered leadership.

Senior Residential Practitioner / Team Leader

Temporary and bank cover for shift leadership, keeping less experienced staff supported even during gaps.

Residential Support Worker

Temporary and bank cover for day to day care — the role most frequently covered on a temp/bank basis.

Areas in Berkshire we cover

Berkshire spans from the coast to the Surrey border, so our coverage reaches across the whole county.
Why choose us

Why work with us in Berkshire

Local Consultant Knowledge

Our Berkshire desk knows the county's providers and settings, not just the job specs they send over.

Established Relationships

Long-standing relationships with children's home providers across Crawley, Horsham and the coast.

Fast Turnaround

Rota gaps and permanent posts across Berkshire covered quickly, without cutting corners on vetting.

Safeguarding-First

Every Berkshire placement is assessed against the home's safeguarding requirements before a CV is sent.

For candidates

Looking for a children's home role in Berkshire?

Register your CV and we'll match you against live vacancies that fit your experience and location.
For care providers

A care provider in Berkshire with a role to fill?

Submit a vacancy and our team will start sourcing safeguarding-checked candidates today.
Questions

Frequently asked questions

The questions we're asked most about recruiting for children's homes in Berkshire.

Yes, see the full list of areas we cover near West Sussex above.

Registered Managers for newly registering homes and Residential Support Workers for weekend and waking night shifts are currently our two highest-demand roles in West Sussex.

Once you register your CV or submit a vacancy, your consultant matches candidates against the setting, confirms compliance and vetting, then arranges interviews or a start date. See our full recruitment process for the step-by-step breakdown.

No, we cover permanent, temporary and bank staffing across Berkshire, so whether you need a rota gap filled or a permanent hire, we can help.

We have worked with children's homes throughout the uK

Here's What They Say

Ryan and the team re-roofed our whole house in under a week. Turned up when they said they would, cleared up properly every evening. Wouldn’t hesitate to use them again.

Helen M.

Ryan and the team re-roofed our whole house in under a week. Turned up when they said they would, cleared up properly every evening. Wouldn’t hesitate to use them again.

Helen M.

Ryan and the team re-roofed our whole house in under a week. Turned up when they said they would, cleared up properly every evening. Wouldn’t hesitate to use them again.

Helen M.