Permanent contract | 37 hours per week | £22,369 to £24,054 per annum (Grade E) | Great Yarmouth

Are you passionate about providing children and their families with the guidance and support they need to live safely together?

Are you committed to providing a service that meets the needs of children, whilst ensuring that their welfare is promoted and that they are safeguarded effectively?

We are looking to recruit Family Support Workers across Norfolk to join our new Community Assessment and Family Time Service with the aim to enable more children to remain at home safely with their families.

As a Family Support Worker, you will provide supervision and support to children and their families in their own homes as part of an 8-week assessment. Working as part of the Community Assessment Team, you will safeguard children and provide families with guidance, role-modelling and support, as directed by the assessing Social Worker.

You will assist parents to develop parenting skills and routines and provide practical support with day-to-day tasks and activities to prevent escalation and promote safety and wellbeing.

You will have experience of working with families in their own home as a Nursery Nurse, Support Worker, Early Years Practitioner, Residential Support Worker, Home visiting volunteer, Family Outreach Worker or similar role.

With an NVQ level 3 or equivalent in a relevant subject, you will be willing to undertake Signs of Safety, Restorative Practice and Solihull training in your first year. You will have a good knowledge of child development from birth to 19 and of factors which impede overall development.

This role will involve flexible working and shift patterns including sleep-ins and waking nights in the family home and supported lone working. This is a great opportunity to join a new and innovative service providing the best possible support to children and families.

These are some benefits you can enjoy by working for Norfolk County Council:

• Competitive salary
• Generous holiday entitlement with the ability to buy and sell leave
• Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service
• Flexible working opportunities including flexi-time, part time, remote and hybrid working – dependent on your job role and business need.
• Financial benefits such as:
  • ‘ Norfolk Rewards’ our employee discount programme which helps you save money on almost anything , from everyday groceries and clothes, to holidays, new technology, gym membership, trips to the cinema and days out.
  • A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers
  • Relocation expenses paid upfront (where applicable)
  • An advance of your expenses if you travel for work
  • Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, life assurance, death in service payments and dependants’ pensions.
  • A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job.
  • Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension, new bikes and electric cars.

Before you apply , we recommend reading the full Job Description and Person Specification to help you demonstrate you meet the criteria. You can also find information on our Terms and Conditions here.

Already a Norfolk County Council employee? please apply using your @norfolk.gov.uk or @nccal.ac.uk email.

Closing date: 23 May 2023