Salary: £30,520 to £32,681 per annum pro rata
Grade: City of York Grade 7, Level 1-4
Contract Type: Permanent
Vacancy Hours: Various shift patterns, full or part time hours available.
Location: York, North Yorkshire
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 11–17 through outreach and residential homes. You'll 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 it's right for them
* Belong – ensuring every young person feels connected, supported, and able to learn
The Role
As a Residential Care Practitioner, you'll 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 you'll walk away. You won't.
You will:
* Build trust through consistency, compassion, and patience, even on tough days.
* Provide safe, nurturing residential support where living at home isn't 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 That's 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 and Families Practitioner
* Wellbeing initiatives, family-friendly policies, and a great rewards package
If you've 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, we'll 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.
For further information or an informal discussion please contact Bethany Gamble, Registered Manager at
To Apply
Please click on the following link to apply for this role:
Key Documents
Job
Key Dates
Closing Date: Tuesday 30 September 2025
Interview Date: To be confirmed
***DBS***
Enhanced Level DBS Disclosure is required for appointment to this post.
It is a criminal offence for people who are barred from working in Regulated Activity (under the Safeguarding and Vulnerable Groups Act 2006) to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with adults at risk.
We are committed to the inclusion, safeguarding, and promoting the welfare of adults at risk.
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Residential Care Practitioner
Salary: £30,520 - £32,681 per annum pro rata
Posted: 04/09/2025
Closing date: 30/09/2025
Closing time: 23:59