We are a permanent staffing provider for residential children’s services with nationwide coverage. With an impressive portfolio of clients, we have a variety of vacancies across multiple settings meaning we will always have suitable vacancies for you to consider.
If you are looking for a well-respected and capable consultancy to accurately represent you, contact Shire today.
Apply for a specific vacancy or register your interest and keep up to date with new and exciting opportunities in your sector.
Find your next career in Child Residential Care with Shire
We are a permanent staffing provider for residential children’s services with nationwide coverage. With an impressive portfolio of clients, we have a variety of vacancies across multiple settings meaning we will always have suitable vacancies for you to consider.
If you are looking for a well-respected and capable consultancy to accurately represent you, contact Shire today.
Apply for a specific vacancy or register your interest and keep up to date with new and exciting opportunities in your sector.
Careers in Children’s Residential Care
In such a complex area of social care, it’s important any recruiter representing you, has a comprehensive understanding of the industry. Our team of highly skilled consultants will not only identify suitable opportunities, but they will also offer CV and interview guidance as well as negotiate on your behalf so any offer of employment is a fair representation of you skills and experience.
Children’s Residential vacancies
Looking for a new role? We offer a range of opportunities from Residential Children’s Support Worker, through to senior management appointments.
Children’s Residential vacancies
Looking for a new role? We offer a range of opportunities from Residential Children’s Support Worker, through to senior management appointments.
Benefits of working with Shire
Exclusive opportunities you won’t find elsewhere.
A portfolio of organisations using Shire for their permanent residential recruitment needs.
A dedicated Consultant who understands your industry.
Ensuring your offer of employment is a fair representation of your skills and experience.
A variety of opportunities.
A variety of roles for you to choose from.
Success with Shire
“An incredible experience that helped me find a role that was perfect for me. Always available or responded to messages and followed up if there were as any concerns. Shire were the go between with me and the potential employers and always worked to my schedule so the service given was individualised to my needs. Can’t recommend them highly enough.”
Otis McDonald – Deputy Manager, Children’s Residential
Interested in working with us? Get in touch >
Success with Shire
“An incredible experience that helped me find a role that was perfect for me. Always available or responded to messages and followed up if there were as any concerns. Shire were the go between with me and the potential employers and always worked to my schedule so the service given was individualised to my needs. Can’t recommend them highly enough.”
Otis McDonald – Deputy Manager, Children’s Residential
Interested in working with us? Get in touch >
FAQ’s
We support services across the UK with their permanent recruitment specialising in:
- Adult Residential
- Children’s Residential
- Talking Therapies
- Psychology
- Occupational Therapy
- Speech Therapy
We are a trusted and well-respected provider with many clients, using Shire exclusively.
We have hundreds of permanent vacancies across the Health and Social Care sectors with many of our clients, choosing to use Shire exclusively. Our teams are specialist within their chosen sectors meaning the Consultant representing you, will have a sound understanding of your industry. Shire is a family run company and our reputation means everything. The service you will receive is a representation of our core values and we can guarantee, you will feel valued and respected, should
you let Shire support you find your next permanent vacancy.
Our benefits:
- Exclusive vacancies no other agencies will have.
- Allocated, experienced consultant to negotiate on your behalf.
- International vacancies as well as UK based, depending on your preferences.
- Vacancies within the national health service, as well as charities, social enterprises, and privately owned organisations.
- Extensive support with interviews including mock interviews if required.
CV guidance and support. - Friendly, approachable team with years of experience within the sector.
We have a range of opportunities to suit your profession, skills and level of experience and upon your initially enquiry, you will be assigned a Recruitment Consultant that will be your main point of contact throughout your journey with Shire. We will present you with opportunities that we feel best match your requirements and facilitate the interview process, negotiating on your behalf, should an offer of employment be made. We offer CV guidance to ensure you are selling yourself effectively. We are also able to offer interview support to give you the very best shot of securing a role should you feel you need it.
We are a specialist provider of permanent staffing solutions and have fixed term contract opportunities as well as hundreds of permanent vacancies across the health and social care industries. We have an impressive portfolio of clients including NHS Trusts, local authorities, privately owned, social enterprises and charities across the country and work with most of the nations leading mental health and care providers.
We can support overseas applications within:
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Psychology
You must be a qualified professional within your industry and be eligible for HCPC registration. We cannot provide sponsorship for Support Workers.
For more information, visit the HCPC website:
What to expect when you make an international application | (hcpc-uk.org)
Once you have accepted an offer of employment, your Recruitment Consultant will facilitate the offer and work with the hiring client to ensure your compliance checks are carried out in a timely manner. Once you start in post, Shire will no longer need involvement.
For information on how we process, store, and share your data, including managing your contact preferences and your data rights, click here:
We only request the basic data required to accurately represent you in finding a suitable position. All data is handled with sensitivity and in accordance with the data protection legislation. For more information on how we handle your data, visit our privacy policy:
If you are unhappy with any part of our service, you have the right to make a complaint. All complaints are resolved within 28 working days but for more complex complaints, we may need a little longer. You will need to make your complaint directly to your Recruitment Consultant or Director, James Greany (james.greany@shire-hcs.co.uk)
All complaints are confidential and used as an opportunity to improve our services.
We offer £100.00 – £250.00 per referral you make, once your referral has been placed and completed their probationary period with our client. We have a system in place that allows us to track the referral payment and when it’s due, meaning you don’t need to worry.
There is no limit to the number of friends or colleagues you can refer!
Refer a friend today: Refer a friend – Shire (shire-hcs.co.uk)
We do not offer locum contracts and our aim is to be the more effective provider of permanent staffing solutions in the UK.
Our office is open Monday – Friday, 8.30am – 5pm. You can contact the team on 01707 802381
If you want to keep your DBS certificate up to date, you should put your DBS on the update service which requires a yearly fee. For more information, visit the gov.uk website.