CARE OFFICER - CASUAL
Hull, Yorkshire and the Humber 3 hours ago
Job Description
Closing date:02 February 2025
Casual Care Officers – SCP 14 -£14.84 per hour (plus 12.06% statutory holiday pay entitlement)
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.
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.
To ensure we have a constant pool of staff to work within the Department’s Children’s Homes, we wish to appoint a number of Casual Care Officers. Homes are located across the City and provide both short and long-term care and support to Children and Young People who are unable to live within their own family home.
About the role:
This role is generally to provide cover in our Solo Provision homes (though you may be asked to cover shifts in any of our homes across the city) Our solo provisions predominantly involve those on shift caring for children who may display a range of emotional, social or behavioural difficulties, including children who may have experienced trauma, have attachment difficulties, children showing sexually problematic behaviour or at risk of sexual exploitation.
Our solo provisions are situated within Hulls local community and designed not to stand out as different to anyone else’s family home. The solo provisions are small, but comfortable and caring, creating a warm environment for those that come to reside at their new home.
The role is to provide a highly skilled level of care to each unique young person in our homes. This will include taking the lead on shift as there are only two staff members per shift, you will be expected to work within our lone working policy and make professional safeguarding decisions that will impact both the young person and the team– this will specifically apply where there is no senior care officer present. You will also be expected to be competent in both written work and admin that is specific to the role and be able to clearly communicate any information necessary, or that needs passing on to relevant professionals.
About you:
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.
This role is to cover holidays, absence and training, and does not have a set working pattern or regular hours. Due to the long shifts that may also include sleep in shifts, the ability to be flexible as to when, and how many hours you are able to work is essential. Where possible, work is pre-arranged however, there may be times when you will be asked to work at short notice. Various training courses are also mandatory, which will require you to attend over several days, during weekdays. Please contact Joseph Southwell for an informal discussion around how our scheduling works and the training you will need to attend, should you be successful.
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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 Joseph Southwell on 07593 977 289 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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