CARE OFFICER MULTI HOME SUPPORT
| Posting date: | 17 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £30,518 to £33,143 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 January 2026 |
| Location: | City Wide Locations |
| Company: | Hull City Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 33348 |
Summary
Various Full Time Posts Available
The immediate care team within Hull City Council is pivotal in ensuring operational excellence, child-centred care, and collaborative practice across multiple homes.
This position involves providing immediate and urgent placement setups and mobilising temporary environments for children who need it, while maintaining safe and nurturing spaces that meet their emotional and developmental needs.
The Care Officer role within the Immediate Care Team will be working with a collective bespoke team that is designed to set up homes in a timely manner whilst working closely with other homes and responding to children’s needs to keep them safe whilst working with a range of other professionals to consider their potential transitions and next steps to independence.
You will be expected to work closely with social workers, educators, health professionals, and families to support holistic care planning. You will continue to work within Hull City Councils policies, procedures and code of conduct whilst ensuring compliance with Ofsted standards and supporting the development of care plans and safeguarding protocols.
You will work directly under a Deputy Manager who will guide and support you in creating an environment that will meet the needs of each unique child you care for at each temporary environment until this is no longer required and they have transitioned into their next stage of care or support
The role has a strong emphasis on trauma-informed and therapeutic approaches and should champion the voice of the child in all decisions.
You will work within the “all day rota” 7am – sleep – 7am finish and where there is no need for a temporary care provision, you will be expected to work within any of our existing homes throughout the city or even provide respite care during your working hours to children who require this care package. Further to this should a young person require a circuit breaker and have the need to be out of town, this will also be an expectation of the role to meet the young person’s needs based on their specific plan. Because of this requirement, we must stress the importance of flexibility and the ability to work at various locations throughout the city and your ability to get to each existing, or new location.
Your team will work closely together in a timely manner, potential changes to places of work could happen several times throughout the working hours of your shift if there are no immediate care provisions currently open and you would be working fluidly throughout these hours supporting other homes and children within Hull City Council care. You will also be expected to work from other locations to formulate plans with your Deputy Manager such as Kenworthy House, Brunswick House, Lowgate etc.
We require all Care Officers to have:
A level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare or equivalent, or the ability to complete this within two years of appointment.
Experience working with vulnerable adults or children in a safeguarding or care setting.
A strong motivation to work with Children and Young People and ability to form and maintain appropriate relationships.
An ability to work within relevant framework when assessing situations in order to make decisions and recommendations.
You must be experienced, skilled and confident to lead on all elements of care, and be able to guide and support others.
Please ensure that your application demonstrates how you meet the essential criteria against the person specification as listed in the job description.
Two additional increments are payable for weekend working for permanent and fixed term staff.
Hours per week will vary, totalling 148 per month full time and will include long shifts and sleep in shifts. Hours will exceed 20 hours per week at times due to the rota.
We understand that you may have questions or want to speak to someone who already works in our homes to find out more about current opportunities, please feel free to contact Harry Garland on 01482 833 101 or harry.garland@hullcc.gov.uk for an informal chat.
Please note, these posts are not available for Visa Sponsorship, therefore all applicants must have the right to work in the UK.
The immediate care team within Hull City Council is pivotal in ensuring operational excellence, child-centred care, and collaborative practice across multiple homes.
This position involves providing immediate and urgent placement setups and mobilising temporary environments for children who need it, while maintaining safe and nurturing spaces that meet their emotional and developmental needs.
The Care Officer role within the Immediate Care Team will be working with a collective bespoke team that is designed to set up homes in a timely manner whilst working closely with other homes and responding to children’s needs to keep them safe whilst working with a range of other professionals to consider their potential transitions and next steps to independence.
You will be expected to work closely with social workers, educators, health professionals, and families to support holistic care planning. You will continue to work within Hull City Councils policies, procedures and code of conduct whilst ensuring compliance with Ofsted standards and supporting the development of care plans and safeguarding protocols.
You will work directly under a Deputy Manager who will guide and support you in creating an environment that will meet the needs of each unique child you care for at each temporary environment until this is no longer required and they have transitioned into their next stage of care or support
The role has a strong emphasis on trauma-informed and therapeutic approaches and should champion the voice of the child in all decisions.
You will work within the “all day rota” 7am – sleep – 7am finish and where there is no need for a temporary care provision, you will be expected to work within any of our existing homes throughout the city or even provide respite care during your working hours to children who require this care package. Further to this should a young person require a circuit breaker and have the need to be out of town, this will also be an expectation of the role to meet the young person’s needs based on their specific plan. Because of this requirement, we must stress the importance of flexibility and the ability to work at various locations throughout the city and your ability to get to each existing, or new location.
Your team will work closely together in a timely manner, potential changes to places of work could happen several times throughout the working hours of your shift if there are no immediate care provisions currently open and you would be working fluidly throughout these hours supporting other homes and children within Hull City Council care. You will also be expected to work from other locations to formulate plans with your Deputy Manager such as Kenworthy House, Brunswick House, Lowgate etc.
We require all Care Officers to have:
A level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare or equivalent, or the ability to complete this within two years of appointment.
Experience working with vulnerable adults or children in a safeguarding or care setting.
A strong motivation to work with Children and Young People and ability to form and maintain appropriate relationships.
An ability to work within relevant framework when assessing situations in order to make decisions and recommendations.
You must be experienced, skilled and confident to lead on all elements of care, and be able to guide and support others.
Please ensure that your application demonstrates how you meet the essential criteria against the person specification as listed in the job description.
Two additional increments are payable for weekend working for permanent and fixed term staff.
Hours per week will vary, totalling 148 per month full time and will include long shifts and sleep in shifts. Hours will exceed 20 hours per week at times due to the rota.
We understand that you may have questions or want to speak to someone who already works in our homes to find out more about current opportunities, please feel free to contact Harry Garland on 01482 833 101 or harry.garland@hullcc.gov.uk for an informal chat.
Please note, these posts are not available for Visa Sponsorship, therefore all applicants must have the right to work in the UK.
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