Intensive Support Worker (7867)

Job Description

Intensive Support Worker | 7867 | Temporary contract to cover maternity leave (secondment opportunity) | 37 hours per week | £30,599 to £32,654 per annum | Grade G | County Hall, Norwich covering North & Broadland locality

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 North & Broadland, with the aim to enable more children to remain at home safely with their families.

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 are 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 per 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 safe care (Warner) interview. If this is successful, a further competency-based interview will follow.

If you wish to discuss this opportunity further, please contact Shelley Kimpton via email shelley.kimpton@norfolk.gov.uk

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.

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

Redeployment closing date: 21 April 2025

All other applicants closing date: 29 April 2025