Family Support Worker

**Permanent contract | full-time 37 hours per week | £25,584 to £27,269 per annum (Grade E) | Norwich**

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 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.

This role will involve flexible working and shift patterns including waking nights in the family home and supported lone working.

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

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 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.

**_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.
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Closing date for redeployees to receive priority consideration: 13 February 2025

**Closing date: 23 February 2025**

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.