Intensive Support Worker

**Permanent contract | part-time 18.5 hours per week Monday - Sunday | £15,280 to £16,327 per annum (Grade G) | Dereham**

**Intensive Support Worker
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 Practitioner to join our Family Help team covering the Breckland area, 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.

To support families when they most need it, you will work for 18.5 hours 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 based in Dereham and your work will cover the Breckland area of Norfolk.

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. 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.

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 (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.

You can find information on our Terms and Conditions here.

Closing date for redeployees to receive priority consideration: 24 November 2024

**Closing date: 01 December 2024**

We have miles of beautiful coastline and our unique Broads, thriving market towns and a city with a proud cultural heritage. Our economy is growing and driven by innovation in a number of sectors, including energy and food. We also have ambitious plans for new housing and a building programme for schools across Norfolk. Our county a great place to live, work and visit, and is an excellent environment for businesses to start, grow and innovate.

We are the main local authority for Norfolk providing services countywide to more than 850,000 Norfolk residents. We take the lead in critical policy areas, working with 84 elected Members responsible for the strategic local government services in the county.

We provide a high quality service through involving people who use our services to shape and comment on them and by promoting efficiency and innovation.

We work in partnership with local businesses, voluntary organisations and other local authorities such as District and Parish Councils to provide the people of Norfolk with excellent services.