Job Description

Salary

Grade 7 Level 1 - 4 (31,497 to 33,727per annum)

Contractual hours

37

Basis

Full time

Employment type

Permanent

Package

Full time, permanent

Job category/type

Children's Services, Support Workers and Care Workers

Date posted

11/12/2025

Job reference

CHED005519

Attachments

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JD- Residential Care Practitioner (0228 0623).doc

A wonderful opportunity has arisen to add to our existing team supporting young people to live semi-independently in York through our supported accommodation offer/Staying Close

These roles will be expected to work across our residential and supported accommodation provision, although will predominantly support unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in York.

The role involves helping young people to develop a sense of belonging, developing local networks of support and providing support and guidance in developing lifelong independent living skills.

This is a remote/lone worker/team role, base at home/community/West Office

Experience of working with children is desirable not essential so if you feel you can deliver:

A commitment to the delivery of high quality, child centred care. Effective communication skills including the ability to communicate sensitive information and recognise and respond to non-verbal as well as verbal communication Ability to build and maintain meaningful relationships with children and young people and their families. Be solution focused Able to use office-based IT and data systems Effective time management skills Commitment to challenge unacceptable, discriminatory practice constructively. Able to work out of school hours - for example occasional weekends, evenings, including school holidays.


This role is suitable as a job sharing opportunity.

As this role is public facing, applicants will need to demonstrate, at interview, their competency to converse and provide advice and guidance to members of the public, in spoken English to CEFR level C2: Can express themselves spontaneously at length with a natural conversational flow, avoiding or backtracking around any difficulty so smoothly that the person with whom they are conversing is hardly aware of it.

City of York Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. We require the successful candidate to undertake an enhanced Criminal Record check via the Disclosure and Barring Service.

The Council is committed to investing in the talent and wellbeing of our staff and can offer a generous annual leave allowance, access to the Local Government Pension Scheme, comprehensive Health & Wellbeing initiatives and a reward package which recognises your contribution. We can offer flexible working practices, community engagement and volunteer activities and, as part of our commitment to you, promote continuous Learning & Development. In addition we also offer a growing range of discounts, rewards and savings.

For further information or an informal discussion please contact Andrea Smith at andrea.smith@york.gov.uk or on 07394 844371

Closing date: Sunday 4 January 2026 at 12 midnight

Interview date: Week commencing Monday 19th January 2026