Family Support Practitioner

**Fixed term contract for 18 months | full-time 37 hours per week | £32,076 to £33,945 per annum (Grade H) | Norwich**

**Family Support Practitioner**

An exciting opportunity has arisen for you to join us in a Family Practitioner role. The post will be based at County Hall, Norwich. If you have experience of working with children and families and have a passion for supporting them in affecting sustained change then we would like to hear from you.

We are seeking to recruit a Family Practitioner to work in the Norwich Family Support Team. You will undertake direct work with children and their families, working within statutory legislation and delivering interventions prioritised by the line manager. You will be able to hold a caseload of Tier 3 cases.

Our purpose in Family Support is to keep children and young people safe through early intervention. Our practitioners provide support to families that have the most complex needs, whose situations without targeted intervention will escalate to become acute, chronic and result in the child/young person and their family requiring social care or other statutory intervention. We do this by working alongside the family, their network and other professionals, naming and addressing worries and creating plans which identify the support needed to achieve positive outcomes and empower the family to affect change.

The role of Family Practitioner is varied and at times can be challenging so a high level of resilience is needed. It is fast paced so you will need to be flexible, and use your initiative and skill set to manage your workload. A family’s needs and situation can change so you will need to be able to prioritise, adapt your practice and remain calm in what could be difficult situations. You will be accountable for achieving required team performance targets and being responsible for your own caseload and at times supporting others with theirs.

Family Support encompasses the work of a broad range of partners supporting families and individuals during often challenging and difficult times. Much of this work, although not exclusively, is undertaken in partnership with others. There is a strong emphasis on partnership working across all agencies, and all Family Support Practitioners undertake direct work with families in the community to bring about long-lasting social change.

We can offer you a friendly and supportive working environment where learning and development is promoted through the support of an experienced management group.

You will need to be able to have the ability to travel to destinations not accessible by public transport.

For more information please see attached the job description or to arrange an informal conversation contact Kieley Crane, Team Manager at

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:

- 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 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.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 18 months

**Salary**: £32,076.00-£33,945.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Flexitime
- Free flu jabs
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Norfolk, NR1 2DH

Reference ID: 5635