Residential Care Practitioner

Job description

Take on a challenge that changes lives, starting with your own.

You are looking for more than just a job.
You want to do something that matters, something that pushes you, grows you, and leaves a mark.

This is it.

Join Together We Can, a bold new service supporting young people aged 1117 through outreach and residential homes. Youll be part of a tight, multi-skilled team, including a Clinical Psychologist, Police Liaison Officer and Resilience and Substances Practitioner, tackling real challenges, making real connections, and seeing the difference you make up close.

Our Vision Stay Home, Come Home, Belong
• Stay Home helping young people remain safely with their family or natural network
• Come Home supporting safe returns to family, community, or York when its right for them
• Belong ensuring every young person feels connected, supported, and able to learn

The RoleAs a Residential Care Practitioner, youll work with young people who have been through more than most. Some will find it hard to trust. Others will push back to see if youll walk away.

You wont.

You Will:

• Build trust through consistency, compassion, and patience, even on tough days.
• Provide safe, nurturing residential support where living at home isnt possible.
• Collaborate daily with a clinical psychologist, police liaison, and substances specialist to overcome obstacles together
• Work therapeutically young people on the edge of care, in care, or leaving care who have experienced early trauma, attachment difficulties and other complex needs.

What We Offer You:

• Work only 9 full days each month! Thats 21 days on average off a month.
• Generous annual leave.
• A supportive team including management and clinical support and supervision.
• Full training and development package, including Level 4 Diploma in Children, Young People & Families Practitioner
• Wellbeing initiatives, family-friendly policies, and a great rewards package

If youve worked with young people, maybe in education, youth work, mentoring, sports, or volunteering, and you are ready for a role that is both challenging and deeply rewarding, well give you all the skills and support you need.

This will stretch you. It will inspire you. And it might just be the best decision you ever make.

This role is suitable as a job share 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.

For further information or an informal discussion please contact Emma Hitchen, 07522715415

[email protected]

Closing date: 28 August 2026 at 12 midnight

Interview date: To be advised