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Apply to be a Residential Support Worker

Help children and young people feel safe, valued and supported. The form has five short sections and takes about 20 minutes.

Before you start, have ready

  • Your CV (PDF or Word, up to 10 MB)
  • Your history since leaving full-time education, month by month
  • Contact details for two referees
  • Your DBS certificate number, if you have one

You need to be aged 21 or over to apply. Any offer is subject to satisfactory safer recruitment checks. Your answers are kept in this browser tab until you send them, so you can come back to a step.

About you

Are you aged 21 or over?

Sorry, our roles are only open to people aged 21 or over, so we can’t accept your application. Thank you for your interest in Silver Lining Care.

What hours are you looking for?

For example: the full 4 on, 4 off rota; or for relief, how many shifts a month and which days, nights or weekends suit you.

How would you like us to contact you? (optional)

Your experience

Have you worked in children’s residential care before?
Do you have a relevant health or social care qualification?

If you’re working towards it, give the date you expect to finish.

You can include relevant skills from work, volunteering or everyday life. Don’t include confidential information about children or other people.

Two questions from our young people (optional)

The young people we support wrote these. You don’t have to answer them, but they’d like to know.

Employment and activity history

Give a continuous, month-by-month history from when you left full-time education to now, starting with what you’re doing now. Include employment, education or training, volunteering, self-employment, caring responsibilities, travel, unemployment and anything else.

Entry 1
Started
Ended
Entry 2
Started
Ended
Entry 3
Started
Ended

Gaps in your history

If there are any months that none of your entries covers, tell us what you were doing.

Gap 1
From
To
Gap 2
From
To

Other work

Do you plan to continue any other employment other than your main job with us?

For example, another part-time job, bank or agency shifts, or self-employment.

The employer or kind of work, and roughly how many hours a week. It helps us plan rotas and keep your total working hours safe.

Safer recruitment

Do you currently have the right to work in the UK?
Do you hold a full driving licence that’s valid in the UK?
Do you have any points to declare on your driving licence?

For example: 3 points for speeding (SP30), March 2025.

Do you currently hold a DBS certificate?

The 12-digit number on your certificate.

As shown on the certificate.

For example: enhanced, child workforce.

Is it registered with the DBS Update Service? (optional)

Do not give details of cautions, convictions or other criminal records here.

Since you were 18, have you lived or worked outside the UK for six months or more?
Have you ever been the subject of a safeguarding investigation, allegation, disciplinary process or formal action relating to children or adults at risk?

Thank you for telling us. Please don’t give details here: we’ll contact you to talk about it in confidence.

Are you currently registered with Social Care Wales?

References

Referees can’t be relatives, friends, partners or anyone you live with. We’ll only contact them if we’d like to offer you the role.

Referee 1

Your current or most recent employer, where you have one.

Referee 2

Another employer, or a character referee of professional or community standing.

This referee is

Review and send

Your CV

A PDF or Word document, up to 10 MB. Your CV doesn’t replace the history in this form.

Declarations

Type your full name.

Date

9 Nov 2026

Problems with the form? Call us on 07950 470569 or email admin@silverliningcare.co.uk.