SENIOR CARE OFFICER FAMILY CONNECT

Hull City Council; Peacehaven; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A local council supporting children in Peacehaven seeks a dedicated Senior Care Officer to join their leadership team. The role focuses on providing high-quality care for children in their homes and involves supervising staff, supporting families, and ensuring effective care planning. Ideal candidates will have experience in child care with supervisory responsibilities and NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care. The position offers additional weekend increments and varied shifts.

Qualifications

• Experience within a child care setting, with supervisory responsibilities.
• Supportive approach that engages staff and children effectively.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice and support on care plans and safeguarding of young people.
• Supervise and support staff in the day-to-day operations.
• Lead staff, manage developments, and offer positive direction.
• Provide family support, including parenting advice.

Skills

Experience in child care

Supervisory skills

Engagement and motivation

Education

NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care

Job description

Overview

Are you playful and accepting, can you show curiosity and empathy? If you can then you have something really special to offer our Children living in Children’s Homes. If trauma brings resilience, then our Children are superheroes – they deserve the best; the best homes, the best help, the best opportunities, and children tell us over and over again, it’s the staff that matter. We believe that we need the right people, with the right commitment, skills, tenacity, imagination, and energy in order to offer the best to our children. To do this you will be offered high quality support, training, guidance, and development and be part of a motivated and ambitious team.

Role

Hull City Council has been on a journey of improvement and has become a leading provider of Children’s Homes. We are committed to developing nurturing, high quality homes where children can thrive and achieve their next steps. We are looking for a highly motivated, skilled, tenacious and dedicated Senior Care Officer to form part of the leadership team at Connect Family Support Team based within Elgar Hub. The purpose of the team, alongside providing high quality care for the children and young people within our care, is also to provide responsive support to families to help children stay safely at home wherever possible.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice, support and guidance on individualised care plans as well as behaviour and general care/safeguarding of the young people in the home.
• Work, supervise and support staff who will be involved in the day-to-day running of the Home.
• Collaborate with the Home Manager and undertake duties commensurate with the needs of the Service.
• Lead and motivate staff, engage in new developments, and give positive direction.
• Provide responsive support to families, such as parenting advice or behaviour support, where children and young people cannot return to live with their families.
• Ensure good care planning takes place to support successful transition into the next steps in their lives.

Qualifications

• Previous experience within a child care setting, encompassing supervisory duties and working with children and young people with complex needs.
• NVQ Level 3 in a relevant Health and Social Care area of work, or equivalent.
• Supportive and enabling approach, able to engage in new developments and motivate staff.

Compensation and Working Hours

Two additional increments are payable for weekend working for permanent and fixed term staff.

Hours per week will vary, totalling 74 hours per month part time and will include long shifts and sleep-in shifts. Hours will exceed 20 hours per week at times due to the rota.

Application

Please ensure that your application demonstrates how you meet the essential criteria against the person specification as listed in the job description.

Contact

We understand that you may have questions or want to speak to someone who already works here to find out more about what the role involves, please feel free to contact Louise Taylor-Deville or Kerry Netherclift on 01482 612 929 for an informal chat.

Legal

These roles are not available for visa sponsorship, therefore all applicants must have the right to work in the UK.