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Join Our Team as a Residential Childcare Support Worker!\n\n Company: Headway Adolescent Resources \nLocation: Bridgwater \nContract: Full Time, Permanent \nSpecific Hours: 38 hours per week \n\nCompensation\n Salary: \n- Unqualified: Base salary of £27,866.34, earning up to £33,447.67 with sleep-in shifts \n- Qualified: Base salary of £29,181.57, earning up to £34,762.90 with sleep-in shifts \n\nWhy Join Us?\n At Headway, we believe in taking care of our team as much as we take care of the young people we support. Here’s what we offer: \n\n • Generous Holiday Allowance\n, • Pension Scheme with a 3% Employer Contribution\n, • Exclusive Employee Discount Scheme\n, • Access to an Employee Assistance Programme\n, • A sleep-in allowance of £46 per night when required\n\n\nAbout Headway\n Founded in 1999, Headway Adolescent Resources has earned a stellar reputation for providing high-quality residential care for adolescents. We pride ourselves on offering holistic, individualized support to young people from all backgrounds. Now, we’re excited to expand our team! \n\nYour Role\n As a Residential Childcare Support Worker, you’ll play a vital role in our children’s residential home. Your mission? To support young people with challenging behaviors while fostering an environment of flexibility, resilience, and honesty. You’ll be dedicated to delivering high-quality care that empowers each young person to achieve positive outcomes. \n\n This is a permanent position with fantastic career prospects and comprehensive training within a growing organization. You’ll work an average of 38 hours per week on a 2 days on/4 days off shift pattern, including 2 sleep-ins. Plus, enjoy generous allowances for bank holidays, overtime, and a performance-related bonus! \n\nEssential Skills\n\n • Full manual driving license\n, • Ability to work independently while maintaining clear, organized records\n, • Strong interpersonal skills and a positive team player attitude\n, • Competence in completing daily records to statutory and policy standards\n, • Empathetic, patient, and supportive nature\n, • Good written and verbal communication skills\n, • A knack for engaging, motivating, and encouraging young people\n\n\nDesirable Skills\n\n, • Experience working with young people\n, • Level 3 Children & Young People qualification, or a willingness to work towards it (fully funded)\n\n\n Join Us in Making a Difference! \n Headway is an equal opportunities employer and warmly encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults, and we expect all staff to share this commitment.

EYFS, KS1 & KS2 Supply Teacher Roles | Daily, Short-Term & Long-Term Opportunities Are you looking for supply teaching jobs in Highbridge or Bridgwater for September 2026? Hays Education is currently experiencing unprecedented demand for primary supply teachers across the South West, particularly in Somerset-where we are busier than ever before.With a high volume of teaching bookings coming in daily, we are recruiting passionate and flexible EYFS, KS1 and KS2 supply teachers ready to secure regular work from September. Supply Teaching Opportunities We are working with a wide network of primary schools across Somerset, offering: • EYFS supply teaching jobs, • KS1 (Key Stage 1) supply teacher roles, • KS2 (Key Stage 2) supply teaching opportunities, • Day-to-day supply cover, • Short-term teaching assignments, • Long-term and extended placements Our supply roles include both: • Same-day sickness cover, and, • Pre-booked absences and planned leave This provides the perfect balance of flexibility and consistent work. High Demand for Supply Teachers Demand for primary supply teaching jobs in Somerset and Devon has surged, with: • Schools requiring daily cover for staff absence, • Increased advance bookings for planned leave, • A growing reliance on reliable supply teachers for continuity In Somerset especially, we have seen record levels of bookings, meaning more opportunities than ever for supply teachers to secure regular work. Why Choose Hays Education? As a leading recruitment specialist for supply teaching jobs, we provide: • Access to a large network of local primary schools, • A steady flow of daily supply bookings and long-term roles, • Flexible work to suit your availability and lifestyle, • Dedicated consultants with local market expertise, • Competitive rates of pay, • Ongoing support throughout your teaching journey Whether you're looking for part-time, full-time, or flexible supply teaching work, we can tailor opportunities to suit you. Requirements for Supply Teaching Roles To apply for our primary supply teaching jobs, you should have: • Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) or equivalent, • Experience teaching in EYFS, KS1 or KS2, • Strong classroom and behaviour management skills, • Flexibility and confidence working in different schools, • A passion for delivering high-quality education Apply for Supply Teaching Jobs - September 2026 If you're searching for supply teaching jobs in Somerset or Devon starting in September, now is the perfect time to register.With more vacancies and bookings than ever before, Hays Education can help you secure consistent, flexible work across the region. Apply now or contact Hays Education today to register for primary supply teaching opportunities. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk

SHE Manager - Greencore Desserts Salary: Competitive salary Benefits: Company share save scheme, competitive matched Pension contributions, Life insurance up to 4x salary Location: Dual site, Highbridge and Devizes Ways of Working: Site Based Hours of work: 08:30am-17:00pm (flexible as per business needs) Contract Type: Permanent Why Greencore? Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we're one of the UK's leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make every day taste better. As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we're proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn. Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop. Our site in Highbridge, Somerset, specialises in producing a range of chilled desserts, including cheesecakes, tarts, and sponges. The site employs over 560 people and operates in a fast-paced, high-quality production environment. Our site in Devizes, Wiltshire, specialises in chilled desserts, including tarts, doughnuts, crumbles, pies, and pastries. The site employs over 580 people and is located close to Swindon, producing high-quality products at scale. What you'll be doing You will lead on ensuring a positive safety culture for the site and be responsible for coordinating the activities required to meet Greencore Health, Safety & Environmental standards. You will be adapt at taking an active role in leading a positive safety culture behaviour and be a visible presence to the operation. The ability to challenge and drive change is key alongside being personable, passionate and having the energy to bring this role to life. Role Accountabilities: Your responsibilities as Site SHE Manager are to: Devise and implement SHE strategies to enable the delivery of a proactive SHE culture providing a valuable competitive edge to the business through the behaviour of its people. Ensure all Health, Safety and Environment legal requirements, policies, standards, procedures are interpreted, communicated, documented and systems exist to ensure the Business Unit is compliant with current legislation and Bakkavor policy regarding SHE. Develop, implement, maintain, communicate and continuously improve the Health, Safety and Environment management system for the business, ensuring that all relevant paperwork and reports are completed and issued to relevant parties as required. Design, implement, monitor and report SHE performance, analyse trends and develop actions plans to deliver targets regarding SHE. Identification and coordination of SHE training and development for managers, enabling effective management of SHE in every respect and ensuring that key personnel involved in Health & Safety activities are competent to fulfil their responsibilities. Promote and drive a culture of continuous improvement of Health & Safety and best environmental practice through the effective engagement of the workforce. Ensure all incidents are investigated, recorded and reported, identifying and recommending improved practices to reduce accidents. Notification of incidents to enforcement authorities as required. Monitor risk assessment process and provide assistance / advice to assessors to ensure risk assessments / safe systems of work are maintained and meet regulatory requirements. Co-ordinate Business Unit actions with regard to enforcement authorities / loss adjusters and that any communications are reported to the Head of Operations. What we're looking for: Diploma level NEBOSH H&S and Environmental qualification or equivalent. Significant experience in a senior Health & Safety role working for an organisation with a large number of employees and with vast amounts of different equipment and machines. Passionate about SHE and ability to influence at a senior level and champion change / implementation at all levels. Strong communication skills both in terms of verbal / presentation skills and written documentation and a team player. Demonstrable compliance to legislation and use of problem solving skills / personal judgement as well as policy adherence in order to make optimum business decisions. We're proud to be recognised in the Gender Equity Measure Top 100 for our commitment to gender equality. If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success. What you'll get in return • Competitive salary and job-related benefits • Holidays • Competitive matched pension contributions • Life insurance up to 4x salary • Company share save scheme • Greencore Qualifications • Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform • Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform • Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on-the-job training and development opportunities to further your career. #CVL #LI-NH1

EYFS, KS1 & KS2 Supply Teacher Roles | Daily, Short-Term & Long-Term Opportunities Are you looking for supply teaching jobs in Highbridge or Bridgwater for September 2026? Hays Education is currently experiencing unprecedented demand for primary supply teachers across the South West, particularly in Somerset-where we are busier than ever before. With a high volume of teaching bookings coming in daily, we are recruiting passionate and flexible EYFS, KS1 and KS2 supply teachers ready to secure regular work from September. Supply Teaching Opportunities We are working with a wide network of primary schools across Somerset, offering: EYFS supply teaching jobs KS1 (Key Stage 1) supply teacher roles KS2 (Key Stage 2) supply teaching opportunities Day-to-day supply cover Short-term teaching assignments Long-term and extended placementsOur supply roles include both: Same-day sickness cover, and Pre-booked absences and planned leaveThis provides the perfect balance of flexibility and consistent work. High Demand for Supply Teachers Demand for primary supply teaching jobs in Somerset and Devon has surged, with: Schools requiring daily cover for staff absence Increased advance bookings for planned leave A growing reliance on reliable supply teachers for continuityIn Somerset especially, we have seen record levels of bookings, meaning more opportunities than ever for supply teachers to secure regular work. Why Choose Hays Education? As a leading recruitment specialist for supply teaching jobs, we provide: Access to a large network of local primary schools A steady flow of daily supply bookings and long-term roles Flexible work to suit your availability and lifestyle Dedicated consultants with local market expertise Competitive rates of pay Ongoing support throughout your teaching journeyWhether you're looking for part-time, full-time, or flexible supply teaching work, we can tailor opportunities to suit you. ✅ Requirements for Supply Teaching Roles To apply for our primary supply teaching jobs, you should have: Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) or equivalent Experience teaching in EYFS, KS1 or KS2 Strong classroom and behaviour management skills Flexibility and confidence working in different schools A passion for delivering high-quality education Apply for Supply Teaching Jobs - September 2026 If you're searching for supply teaching jobs in Somerset or Devon starting in September, now is the perfect time to register.With more vacancies and bookings than ever before, Hays Education can help you secure consistent, flexible work across the region. Apply now or contact Hays Education today to register for primary supply teaching opportunities. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at (url removed)

Residential Childcare Support Worker (Sessional/Casual) Location : East Huntspill, Highbridge Contract : Shift Pattern- ad-hoc cover Salary : £14.11- £14.77 (dependent on qualification) per hour plus sleep in shifts when required Headway Adolescent Resources were formed in 1999 and has established a good reputation in the residential adolescent childcare sector, and pride themselves in having the insight and ability to care for young people as individuals in a holistic manner, regardless of their background. We are currently looking for Residential Child Care Workers to join our new residential home on a casual basis. This amazing opportunity will also allow you flexibility to work hours you can commit to with no contractual obligation Based in a children's residential home you will be working with young people with challenging behaviour, and you will need to be flexible, resilient, honest and well organised, as well as committed to providing a high standard of childcare to help young people achieve the best possible outcomes. Applicants must have: Previous experience of working with challenging young people, preferably in a residential setting (but not essential) Qualified to QCF level 3 in Children and Young People Be capable of working on their own initiative to a high level of accuracy, maintain clear, neat records Have good inter-personal skills, and be a positive team player Computer experience to an intermediate level The ability to complete daily records to meet statutory and policy requirements. Empathetic nature Have good oral and written communication skills in a variety of contexts The ability to engage, motivate and encourage young people Full manual driving license essential. A sleep in allowance of £46 per night as and when the business needs. Headway is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. Headway is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. TPBN1_UKTJ