Do work that matters, in a company that grows its own leaders. Three children's homes across East Anglia, more opening soon, and a funded qualification with every role.
Your Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare funded from the start, and Level 5 leadership funded as you progress. Nationally recognised, yours for life.
Trauma, attachment and child development training that shapes how you understand children, not just how you follow procedure.
Training built around the actual children in your home, so what you learn on Tuesday you use on Wednesday.
Regular sessions with clinical specialists, because this work asks a lot, and nobody does it alone.
What you learn here doesn’t stay at work. By the end of your first year you’ll hold skills most people never get trained in: emergency first aid, safeguarding, de-escalation, emotion coaching, and communicating with children who’ve stopped trusting adults. These are skills for parenting, for friendships, for every crisis life throws at you.
And the further you go, the bigger they get: leading people, judging character, managing money, staying steady under pressure. People who leave able (and plenty don’t) leave more employable and more capable than they arrived. We think that’s how it should be.
Our teams help children who have had the hardest starts feel safe, settle, and move forward. It is demanding work, and it is the kind you talk about for the rest of your life. You don’t need experience in care to start. You need the right values. We train everything else.
Where most people start, day or night roles.
You'll master: safeguarding, therapeutic childcare practice, and your Level 3 qualification, fully funded.
You'll take home: first aid you'd use on your own family, and the ability to stay calm when it matters most.
Your first step into leading.
You'll master: running a shift, and coordinating a team around the children's needs.
You'll take home: sound judgement under pressure, and holding a plan together when the day doesn't go to plan.
Leading people, not just shifts.
You'll master: supervising and developing staff, and modelling practice others learn from.
You'll take home: coaching people, and giving feedback that lands.
Running a home alongside its manager.
You'll master: advanced safeguarding, and the leadership and management of a children's home.
You'll take home: interviewing and judging character, and organising a complex operation week after week.
Your own home, registered with Ofsted in your name.
You'll master: your Level 5 leadership qualification, fully funded, and full accountability for children's outcomes.
You'll take home: running an organisation, and answering personally to a national regulator.
Leading managers across a group of homes.
You'll master: multi-site leadership, and developing the next generation of managers.
You'll take home: leading leaders, and building things that outlast your involvement.
Every step is real. People inside able are on it right now, and as we open new homes, new leadership roles open with them.
We recruit on values first. No care experience is required for practitioner roles: we look for warmth, resilience, reliability and the judgement to stay calm when a child can’t be.
Because we work with children, our process follows safer recruitment standards: interview, enhanced DBS, and full referencing. We’re straight with you throughout, and we move quickly for the right people.
IP16
Leiston
£15.76 to £16.32 per hour (£32,781 to £33,946 full time), plus paid sleep-ins
Full time
The senior practitioner on shift at our four bed Leiston home: leading the shift, holding key work for individual young people, and modelling the standard of care for the team.
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Leiston
£45,000 to £55,000, plus annual performance bonus
Full time
Leading our four bed Leiston home and its established team, accountable to Ofsted for the quality of its care, with a structured bonus, clinical supervision and the Level 5 funded.
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Send your CV to our recruitment team with the role and home you are interested in, and we will be in touch about next steps.
The work is demanding, so the package has to be worth it. Here is what comes with a job at Able, from your first shift onwards.
Pay that reflects the skill and the demand of the work you do.
We fund your Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare, and what follows it.
A structured first three months, paid, so you start shifts knowing what you are doing.
Regular supervision, honest debriefs and wellbeing support you can use.
Our support workers have become team leaders, deputies, managers and beyond.
A workplace pension, so the work you do now counts for later.
Eligibility for the Blue Light Card, with discounts at thousands of retailers.
Recommend someone good and you are rewarded when they pass probation.
Christmas meals, staff socials, and marking the wins that matter, including every positive inspection.
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Staff spoke positively about the opportunities for progression within the organisation and expressed a desire to remain working for the company.
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One staff member said, ‘I absolutely love working here,’ and other staff gave the same feedback.
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Leadership of the home continues to be values-led and reflective, the team is relational and child-focused, and the home continues to evidence strong multi-agency working.
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One staff member said, ‘It has been great learning from such professional and knowledgeable people.’
All our homes are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted
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