Intensive Support Worker (7711)

Intensive Support Worker | 7713 | permanent contract | 37 hours per week | £30,559 to £32,654 per annum | Grade G | Norwich 

Are you passionate about providing children and their families with the guidance and support they need to live within the community and thrive within the family home? 

We are looking to recruit a dedicated, resilient Support Worker to join our Family Help team covering South Norfolk, with the aim to enable more children to remain at home safely with their families.  This role is based at County Hall in Norwich, covering the South Norfolk locality.

As an Intensive Support Worker, you will undertake targeted, evidence-based and timely/time-limited interventions with families, working alongside Social Workers and Family Practitioners to promote safety and well-being and prevent escalation of need. You will embrace Norfolk Vital Signs for children as an approach that underpins your work with children and families. 

You will need to have a minimum of three years’ experience of working directly with children and families. 

You will be confident delivering interventions one-to-one, or on a group basis, with children, young people and parents/caregivers.  

You will require an NVQ level 3 in a relevant subject or equivalent experience providing services for children and young people, and their families and an understanding of child development from birth to 19 including factors which impede overall development. 

In order to support families when they most need it, Intensive Support Workers work a 37 hour week, on a Monday to Sunday contract. You will be required - on occasion - to work outside of normal office working hours, including evenings, mornings and weekends.  

You will be required to travel as part of your duties and you may be required, at short notice, to transport young people between a variety of rural and urban locations. 

This is a great opportunity to join a new and innovative service providing the best possible support to children and families. 

The interview process will consist of a competency-based interview.  If this is successful, a further safe care (Warner) interview will follow. 

Please ensure when submitting your covering letter, you evidence fully how you meet the essential and desirable criteria of the role. Before you apply, we recommend reading the full  Job Description and Person Specification  to help you demonstrate you meet the criteria we are looking for.  

If you wish to discuss this opportunity further, please call Emma Hawthorne, Team Manager, on 01603 679356 or email emma.hawthorne@norfolk.gov.uk

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

• Competitive salary
• Generous holiday entitlement 
• 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 discounts 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 (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.
  • Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension and new bikes
  • Access to our tax efficient car lease scheme for greener travel enabling you to lease a brand new, ultra-low emission vehicle (subject to eligibility)
  • A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job

You can find information on our Terms and Conditions here.

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We would like to make you aware that priority consideration for this post may be given to current employees who are at risk due to restructure within the organisation or are in a redeployment position.  

Redeployment closing date: 31 March 2025

All other applicants closing date: 07 April 2025