Working at CANW

We looking to recruit for the Appropriate Adult role in Barrow

About the role

AA Job Description – All Areas September 2024

Our Appropriate Adults come from all walks of life and we are always looking for more to join our team. We are looking for people who are caring and compassionate with excellent communication skills whilst supporting the most vulnerable within a custody environment.

Rates of pay:

6am – 9pm Hourly rate, including holiday pay: £15.07

9pm –6am Hourly rate, including holiday pay: £16.77

Role Overview

AA Person Specification March 2020

To support young people and vulnerable adults who have been detained by the police at Barrow custody suite, ensuring we are acting in the best interests of the detainee.

• Do you want a flexible role supporting children and young people in Police Custody?

• Can you arrive at Barrow Custody Suite within 20/30 minutes?

​If the answer is Yes to either of these questions, then this could be the role for you.

Application Form 2022 ATS

We looking to recruit for the Appropriate Adult role in Workington

About the role

AA Job Description – All Areas September 2024

Our Appropriate Adults come from all walks of life and we are always looking for more to join our team. We are looking for people who are caring and compassionate with excellent communication skills whilst supporting the most vulnerable within a custody environment.

Rates of pay:

6am – 9pm Hourly rate, including holiday pay: £15.07

9pm –6am Hourly rate, including holiday pay: £16.77

Role Overview

AA Person Specification March 2020

To support young people and vulnerable adults who have been detained by the police at Workington police custody suite, ensuring we are acting in the best interests of the detainee.

• Do you want a flexible role supporting children and young people in Police Custody?

• Can you arrive at Workington Custody Suite within 20/30 minutes?

​If the answer is Yes to either of these questions, then this could be the role for you.

Application Form 2022 ATS

We looking to recruit for the Appropriate Adult role in Blackpool

About the role

AA Job Description – All Areas September 2024

Our Appropriate Adults come from all walks of life and we are always looking for more to join our team. We are looking for people who are caring and compassionate with excellent communication skills whilst supporting the most vulnerable within a custody environment.

Rates of pay:

6am – 9pm Hourly rate, including holiday pay: £15.07

9pm –6am Hourly rate, including holiday pay: £16.77

Role Overview

AA Person Specification March 2020

To support young people and vulnerable adults who have been detained by the police at Blackpool police custody suite, ensuring we are acting in the best interests of the detainee.

• Do you want a flexible role supporting children and young people in Police Custody?

• Can you arrive at Blackpool Custody Suite within 20/30 minutes?

​If the answer is Yes to either of these questions, then this could be the role for you.

Application Form 2022 ATS

We looking to recruit for the Appropriate Adult role in Lancaster

About the role

AA Job Description – All Areas September 2024

Our Appropriate Adults come from all walks of life and we are always looking for more to join our team. We are looking for people who are caring and compassionate with excellent communication skills whilst supporting the most vulnerable within a custody environment.

Rates of pay:

6am – 9pm Hourly rate, including holiday pay: £15.07

9pm –6am Hourly rate, including holiday pay: £16.77

Role Overview

AA Person Specification March 2020

To support young people and vulnerable adults who have been detained by the police at Lancaster police custody suite, ensuring we are acting in the best interests of the detainee.

• Do you want a flexible role supporting children and young people in Police Custody?

• Can you arrive at Lancaster Custody Suite within 20/30 minutes?

​If the answer is Yes to either of these questions, then this could be the role for you.

Application Form 2022 ATS

Role Overview
To support young people and vulnerable adults who have been detained by the police at one of the named police custody suites above, ensuring we are acting in the best interests of the detainee.

• Do you want a flexible role supporting children and young people in Police Custody?

• Can you arrive at Hereford Custody Suite within 20/30 minutes?

​If the answer is Yes to either of these questions, then this could be the role for you.

About the role

Our Appropriate Adults come from all walks of life and we are always looking for more to join our team. We are looking for people who are caring and compassionate with excellent communication skills whilst supporting the most vulnerable within a custody environment.

Salary

Sessional – hourly paid

6am – 9pm – £14.12 per hour (including holiday pay)

9pm – 6am – £16.50 per hour  (including holiday pay)

About the organisation

Child Action Northwest is an award winning charity providing a range of innovative and creative services that support children, families and vulnerable adults.  Our values of caring, empowerment, and never giving up are present in all we do and underpin our work.  We believe in the power of the individual and communities to grow, develop and change.

To apply

Please review the job description and spec before applying:

Application Form

 Appropriate Adult Job Description

Appropriate Adult Person Spec

Submit a CV, a cover letter and this application form: Application Form 2025

Apply to: cjr@canw.org.uk

Please note:

You must live within 30 minutes of:

• Hereford Police station, Bath Street, Hereford, Herefordshire, HR1 2HT

All roles within CANW have a responsibility for the safeguarding of children and adults. This role will be subject to an enhanced DBS check checked against the Children’s Barred List.

Role Overview:To provide day-to-day care for young people aged 8 to 17 with social and emotional mental health difficulties.

About the role

We have a new and exciting opportunity within CANW for both full-time and part-time Residential Support Workers for our upcoming Residential Children’s Home. At this exciting point in growth for our charity, you will be responsible for providing day-to-day care for young people aged 8 to 17 with social and emotional mental health difficulties.

Purpose of the job

• Promote a safe and secure environment for children/young people and ensures that others adhere to policies, procedures, and working practices.
• To provide day-to-day care for young people aged 8 to 17 with social and emotional mental health difficulties.
• To establish a clear transition plan to rehabilitation to birth families, fostering or independent living. Responsible for ensuring that young people are prepared for and supported to reach independence.
• To foster a safe, secure, and accepting environment encouraging positive behaviour in all aspects of the young person’s life.
• Ensure that the wishes and feelings of children/young people are considered in all aspects of their daily care and in accordance with their age and understanding. Ensure children and young people have forums to contribute to decisions about their lives.
• Provides opportunities for children/young people to learn, develop, and reach their full potential through regular and consistent access to education and wider experiences that will enrich their life.
• Support children/young people to maintain a good level of health and well-being whilst developing their awareness of areas that can negatively impact their well-being.
• Promotes the needs of each child/young person arising from their racial, cultural, and religious backgrounds. Enable children/young people to establish their own identity within their home environment.
• Responsible for the development, monitoring, and review of care plans with the young person, including risk assessments, ensuring that appropriate others are aware of the child/young person’s individual needs & requirements.
• Supports children/young people to maintain meaningful relationships with those important to them. Where appropriate. Supports children/young people to establish, develop, and maintain relationships and social networks outside of the home.
• Promote a safe, secure, and accepting environment for children/young people where positive behaviour is encouraged and praised.
• Provide appropriate and meaningful boundaries which support children/young people’s understanding of the benefits of positive behaviour on their own and others health, safety, and well-being. Responds consistently on a day-to-day basis to incidents of challenging behaviour and supports others to develop consistency in their own practice.

​Principal Duties

• Promotes open and effective relationships with children/young people where they can share concerns about their health, well-being and relationships. Promote health and well-being raising awareness of factors that can impact on it.
• Recognises signs and symptoms of abuse and harm and ensures that respectful observations are made of children/young people to ensure their safety is paramount.
• Ensure that disclosures of danger, harm, or abuse made by children/young people are responded to in a calm and sensitive manner and are accurately recorded and reported. Ensures that children/young people are openly and honestly informed of who will need to be contacted if a disclosure of danger, harm, or abuse is disclosed.
• Ensure that the wishes, feelings, and preferences of children/young people are listened to and considered whilst maintaining safeguarding practice. Support the young person to respectfully challenge decisions where the best interests of the child/young person are not being fully considered.
• Support children//young people in establishing their identity and ensuring their wishes are considered.
• To work in partnership with other agencies/professionals and seek to understand their individual roles and responsibilities. To collaborate with parents, carers, and other professionals to benefit the young person.
• To work in partnership with other agencies/professionals to devise, monitor and review care plans that promote the health, well-being, and protection of children/young people. Ensuring all significant information is shared with relevant professionals in the best interests of the child/young person whilst adhering to recognized confidentiality procedures.
• Support children/young people to actively engage in programs of support that are available through other agencies/professionals and ensure that they understand your responsibility to liaise with those professionals where appropriate.
• Support children/young people to pursue appropriate interests of their choice whilst ensuring their safety and well-being.
• In line with Data Protection Act 2018 maintain accurate, up-to-date records and reports for each child/young person and in line with Information Governance procedures for CANW.
• To identify and complete all appropriate documentation relevant to any given situation in all aspects of the role and supports others in this completion/task.
• To share information with children/young people in a manner that is appropriate to their age and understanding whilst remaining sensitive, respectful, and non-judgmental always.
• Provide appropriate and useful boundaries in relation to social media and internet safety and responding to areas of concern. Actively listening to what children/young people are saying about their experiences, respectfully enquire about areas that may be presenting concerns.
• To present in a professional manner and provide leadership and support in your role across the Residential Service and CANW.

​Organisational responsibilities

• ​Represent CANW at meetings, conferences and exhibitions as required.
• ​Provide a non-discriminatory service in line with best practice and legislative guidance and treat all who access CANW services fairly and equally.
• ​Be aware of the Health and Safety requirements in the workplace, and in particular, as it relates to own service area and/or department.
• ​Work within allocated budgets and agreed expenditure levels.
• ​Keep accurate records and provide written reports as required.
• ​Contribute to CANW’s operational and strategic development, including any organisation objectives identified through designated quality standards, such as Trusted Charity and Investors in People.
• ​Participate fully in personal supervision meetings and the annual appraisal process and undertake any training deemed necessary for the role.
• ​​Review own delivery performance against agreed annual KPIs (key performance indicators), aiming to meet or exceed personal targets/performance levels.
• ​Undertake additional duties, training and/or hours of work as may be reasonably required which are deemed appropriate to the levels of responsibility within the role.
• ​Be aware of the safeguarding policy and procedure for children and vulnerable adults and ensure that the safeguarding of children, young people and adults is given the highest priority in the work undertaken.
• ​Have a personal responsibility to ensure that person identifiable, confidential or sensitive information is processed in line with GDPR and complies with any other relevant data protection legislation, organisational polices and best practice when processing information.
• ​​Work outside of normal office hours (ie. evenings and weekends) as and when required to meet the needs of service users as appropriate.
• ​​Undertake other appropriate tasks as may be required of the post holder from time to time and provide cover for tasks during periods of sickness or holiday.

Benefits

Alongside working for a charity like CANW that provides you with a sense of reward, fulfilment and passion, who go above and beyond to support the lives of children and young people, you will also receive a suite of benefits including;

• Company Sick Pay after probation period
• Enhanced Maternity / Paternity.
• Volunteering programme allowing 2 days to employees to get involved, fundraise and give back to CANW.
• Discounted BUPA medical insurance paid through salary.
• Enhanced annual leave starting from 25 days, plus bank holidays, increasing by 1 day every year up to 30 days holiday.
• Holiday purchase scheme allowing an additional 5 days per year.
• Electric vehicle lease scheme
• A range of learning and development opportunities including our in house LMS System.
• Medicash Scheme, providing money back for medical prescriptions, optical and dental appointments and physio.
• Employee Assistance Programme allowing 24/7 access to external support and advice when needed.
• Benefits hub with exclusive retail, food and beverage discounts
• Reward, recognition and long service awards

Additional training

Applicants that are not qualified to Diploma level 3 in Children and young people in residential care will have the opportunity to work towards there qualification with an expected completion date within two years of starting. The salary whilst the qualification is being undertaken is £24,699.76 with enhancements.

Salary

• Full Time – 37hrs per week, 148hrs in a 4 week period – £28,486 – £30,091
• Part Time – 25hrs per week 100hrs in a 4 week period – £28,486 – £30,091 Pro rata

About the organisation

Child Action Northwest (CANW) is an award-winning charity providing a range of innovative and creative services across the North of England that support children, families and vulnerable adults. CANW has been supporting children and young people for 130 years since the founding of the organisation in 1886. Our mission is to inspire lives and change futures. Our values of caring, empowerment, and never giving up are present in all we do and underpin our work. We believe in the power of the individual and communities to grow, develop and change.

To apply:

Please review the job description and spec before applying:

Residential Support Worker Job Description

Residential Support Worker Person Spec

Submit a CV, a cover letter and this application form: Application Form 2025

Apply to: recruitment@canw.org.uk

Please note:

All roles within CANW have a responsibility for the safeguarding of children and adults. This role will be subject to an enhanced DBS check checked against the Children’s Barred List.

Salary: £26,300.00-£28,032.00 per year

Locations:

East Lancashire based: Blackburn, Burnley, Pendle, Ribble Valley and Rossendale

North Lancashire: Lancaster, Wyre, Flyde

Central Lancashire: Preston, Chorley, West Lancashire, South Ribble

Job Overview

Fixed term until March 2027 – Term time plus 5 days in the summer break

Salary range: £26,300-£28,032 Per annum pro-rata for part time posts

Working Pattern: – Monday – Friday between 9am and 5pm

Job Description:

for this role you should be able…..

• To work with children and young people on a one to one and/or group work basis to identify, assess and explore any emotional/mental health and well-being issues
• To offer a range of time limited, therapeutic interventions to young people to enable and empower them to become fully capable of fulfilling their own potential for growth
• To identify appropriate intervention / support strategies for children and young people based on their assessed emotional/mental health and well-being needs
• To work in partnership with others, to support and enable young people to achieve emotional health and well-being
• To work in partnership with families, other statutory and voluntary services to support Mental Health outcomes

Job Role:

• To develop and explore new and innovative ways of working with young people and their parents/carers to address emotional/mental health issues
• Using Cognitive behavioural approaches, solution focused, creative and imaginative strategies, to work with young people and their parents/carers to improve their emotional health and wellbeing
• To work as part of the Emotional Health and Well-being Service to encourage young people and their parents/carers to actively participate in services that are identified as part of their assessed needs
• To liaise and work in partnership with statutory and voluntary agencies in the interests of the Service and needs of young people
• To liaise with statutory mental health services to promote CANW, providing a collaborative approach to Pro-contact services for children, young people and families, whilst increasing partner knowledge of CANW referral pathways and projects
• To undertake direct work with young people as referred by the commissioning agencies to prevent statutory intervention (wherever possible)
• To ensure that the service provided meets the needs of young people and balances emotional health and family well-being with that of safeguarding (child protection)
• With the Team Manager, monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the Service in partnership with young people who access the Service and produce an annual report
• To assist in the ongoing development of the Service and in the identification and securing of future funding for the work of the Service
• To work in partnership with all CANW’s services (projects)
• To work within CANW’s Quality Assurance Framework (Trusted Charity) and work within best practice guidelines and National Occupational Standards for Working with Parents

The ideal candidate for this role would be someone who..

• Has a counselling qualification
• Has therapeutic background
• Drives own car
• Passionate about making a difference

Qualifications needed: Level 4 Counselling

Job Type: Fixed term contract

Contract length: 12 months

Work Location: In person

To apply:

Submit a CV, a cover letter and this application form: Application Form 2025

Apply to: recruitment@canw.org.uk

Closing date: 30th March 2026

Pay: £31,414.65-£33,568.31 per year

Job Description:

We are pleased to share a new opportunity within Contact Services, as a Sessional Family Practitioner – Contact Services.

This role involves working directly with children and families to promote safe and beneficial family time during supported and supervised sessions at our Bolton Contact Centre.

Person Specification

We are seeking a reliable and enthusiastic sessional worker to assist with weekday and Saturday sessions. Hours are flexible and can include mornings, afternoons, or full days.

Experience of working with children and families is helpful but not essential, as full guidance and support will be provided.

Strong report writing skills are required, as some sessions involve preparing reports for Family Court.

If you are seeking a flexible and rewarding role within a team committed to making a meaningful impact, we would welcome your interest.

For further information or to register your interest via an expression of interest, please contact Karen Sudworth, Area Coordinator (contact services) kkaysudworth@canw.org.uk  deadline for applications is 7^th April 2026.

This sessional role is remunerated at £14.12 per hour (inclusive of holiday pay).

Sessions currently take place on Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday with additional opportunities during school half term periods.