Hull City Council
Advanced Complaint Practitioner
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Advanced Complaints Practitioner
Number of Vacancies:
1
Time Type:
Full time
Worker Type:
Regular
Proposed Interview Date:
Friday, October 23, 2026
Hours of Work:
37
Hiring Manager:
Deborah Witty
Contact Number:
01482 616049
Job Description Summary
This is a full time permanent position.
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced, motivated, and skilled Advanced Complaints Practitioner, dedicated to working within our Integrated Complaints & Compliments Service. This is a pivotal role that strengthens the quality, consistency, and learning culture across our organisation.
As Advanced Complaints Practitioner, you will provide senior professional support to the Grade 12 Group Manager and act as a key source of expertise, leadership, and resilience across the complaints function.
You will play a central role in improving service quality across the local authority, ensuring that feedback from children, families, residents, and partners drives practice development and results in better outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Operational Leadership & Decision-Making
- Provide oversight and professional advice for the complaints service staff and the operational services. Supporting service continuity and resilience across all stages of the complaint procedure and tasks and functions within each stage of the process.
Quality Assurance & Reporting
- Lead the completion and quality assurance of the quarterly Complaints Snapshot Report. Ensuring clear accountability and driving service improvement.
- Analyse trends, themes, and learning from complaints to deliver practice improvement activity, including targeted audits, “stop the clocks” sessions, and thematic support.
- Quality assure complaint investigation reports and adjudication responses for Heads of Service, offering expert consultation.
- Quality assurance of files prepared for Independent Complaint Panel Reviews and reports and Director responses to complaints.
- Conduct quality assurance of complaint case files before submission to the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman.
Service Development & Learning
- Act as a specialist advisor for complex complaint screenings
- Supporting managers and staff in driving forward learning from complaints. This may be achieved through team meetings or service meetings.
- Support offered by complaints will extend across all Children, Young People and Families services within the Local Authority.
- Strengthen the authority’s approach to learning from compliments and complaints, ensuring insights translate into practice improvements. Achieving this through regular quarterly reporting on themes from complaints.
- Occasionally completing or participating in bespoke auditing that is linked to complaints and working on ensuring the learning informs practice within the service.
- Monitor and ensure completion of complaint action plans, improving timeliness and consistency across teams.
- Participate in operational meetings to provide families with an experienced manager from the Complaints Team when cases remain unresolved.
People Management
- Provide direct supervision, development, and support to the Business Support Officer.
- Provides support and advice to the three Grade 8 Complaint Co Ordinator’s.
- Model best practice and foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement within the service.
About You
- Experienced, knowledgeable, and confident in complaints management, quality assurance, and practice development.
- Skilled at analysing complex information and communicating findings clearly and translating data into reports.
- Good written and verbal communication skills with skills in presenting information.
- Able to build strong working relationships with senior leaders, operational managers, and external partners.
- Committed to continuous improvement, innovation, and service improvement.
- Highly organised, with the ability to work independently and manage competing priorities.
- Passionate about improving the experiences of children, families, and residents through effective learning from feedback.
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What We Offer
- A supportive, collaborative working environment.
- Opportunities for professional development and progression.
- A collaborative, values-driven culture where your expertise is valued.
- The chance to make a real impact in shaping service quality and improving outcomes across the local authority.
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If you are committed to delivering high-quality services and ensuring that the voice of children, young people, and their families drive continuous improvement, we want to hear from you.
Come and join our good and outstanding children’s services here in Hull. We are looking for an enthusiastic person to take a senior position in our compliments and complaints team. We optimise learning from our feedback and build in service improvement using our highly successful workforce academy and well-embedded whole service events.
You would manage a small number of staff in the team and report directly to the Complaints Service Manager.
It’s a good time to be in Hull. We are ahead of the curve and seek highly motivated energetic staff to be part of our successful Children’s directorate.
If this could be you, please apply.
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Deborah Witty – Deborah.Witty@hullcc.gov.uk
If the postholder requires a Standard or Enhanced DBS disclosure the candidate is required to declare full details of everything on their criminal record unless the conviction/s and/or caution/s are considered “protected” in line with filtering rules for DBS checks.
Role & Purpose of Job
To support the effective delivery of the Children, Young People, and Family Services complaints function, ensuring that children and young people, their families, and carers across the city are encouraged and supported to comment on the quality of the services they receive.
To support Children, Young People, and Family Services in responding to, considering, and learning from complaints, representations, concerns, and compliments in accordance with statutory requirements, council procedures, and recognised good practice.
To provide specialist advice, guidance, and support in relation to complex, sensitive, and high-risk complaints across Children's Social Care, Early Help, Learning and Skills, SEND, and Targeted Family Support services, promoting timely resolution and positive outcomes for children, young people, and families.
Working under the direction of the Integrated Complaints Manager, the postholder supports the management of statutory and corporate complaints processes, contributes to quality assurance and performance monitoring activities, and promotes the effective use of learning from complaints to improve practice and service delivery.
The postholder provides professional support and guidance to Complaints Coordinators, supervises the Business Support function within the Complaints Team, and contributes to maintaining effective operational delivery of the complaints service. Through the analysis of complaints, feedback, and service user experiences, the role supports continuous improvement across Children, Young People, and Family Services and contributes to improving outcomes for children and young people.
Principal Accountabilities
- Customer Focus – Supports the delivery of statutory and corporate complaints processes across Children, Young People, and Family Services, ensuring complaints are progressed in accordance with legislation, policy, procedure, and service standards.
- Complex Complaint Resolution – Coordinates and manages complex, sensitive, and high-risk complaints, supporting robust investigations and helping to ensure fair, proportionate, and timely outcomes for complainants.
- Professional Advice and Guidance – Provides specialist advice and guidance to Complaints Coordinators, managers, and practitioners on complaints handling, statutory requirements, complaint investigations, and resolution approaches.
- Quality Assurance – Undertakes quality assurance activity on complaint responses, investigation reports, and outcomes to support consistency, compliance, and good practice across the service.
- Learning and Improvement – Analyses complaints, compliments, representations, and feedback to identify trends, themes, and learning opportunities, making recommendations to support service improvement and improved customer experience.
- Performance Monitoring – Supports the Integrated Complaints Manager in monitoring complaints performance, maintaining accurate records, and contributing to reports, audits, and performance information relating to complaints activity.
- Investigation Coordination – Coordinates activity associated with formal complaint investigations, including liaison with investigating officers, independent persons, advocates, and operational managers to support effective progression of complaints.
- Service Development – Contributes to the review and development of complaints procedures, guidance, systems, and working practices, supporting compliance with legislative requirements and recognised best practice.
- Partnership Working – Develops effective working relationships with children, young people, families, advocates, elected members, partner agencies, and professionals to support the effective resolution of complaints and improve service user experience.
- Staff Support and Supervision – Provides day-to-day support and professional guidance to Complaints Coordinators and supervises Business Support staff within the Complaints Service, assisting with workload management, service continuity, and operational effectiveness.
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The above principal accountabilities are not exhaustive and may vary without changing the character of the job or level of responsibility.
Job Details
Job Title:
Advanced Complaints Practitioner
Compensation Grades:
GRADES 9
Pay Ranges:
£41,177.00 - £44,253.00
Job Classifications:
12- Enhanced & Children's Barring List (Child & Adult Workforce) - (Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)), 3- Not Politically Restricted - Designated As Not Politically Sensitive (Politically Restricted Posts), Casual - (Travel Allowance Policy), No - (Statutory Post)
Benefits of Working for Hull City Council:
- A competitive salary
- An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
- Initially 23 days annual leave depending on length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year, and three additional days off, one in May/August and one during the Christmas/New year period
- Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods
- Supportive and forward-thinking culture
- Great career development opportunities
Please ensure that you complete and submit your application by midnight prior to the closing date. Please ensure that your application demonstrates how you meet the essential criteria against the person specification as listed in the job description.
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