Early Help Community Worker x 10

Early Help Community Worker x 10

Permanent- either Full-time (37 hours per week) or Part-time (18.5 hours per week)

£27,344 to £29,439 (Scale G)

County Wide- Kings Lynn, Great Yarmouth, North Norfolk, South Norfolk, Norwich, Breckland and Broadland.

Are you currently working in the community with children or families? Do you have experience of early help assessments and plans? Are you passionate about supporting families and children?

About us:

2023 in an exciting time to join Norfolk County Council Childrens Services following a recent highly successful Ofsted inspection and the launch of our new School and Community model. We want children, young people, and their families in Norfolk to receive support at the earliest opportunity so that they can flourish. By acting together, as a prevention and early help system, we can enable more families to receive the right support, at the right time.

This new model will mean we can build on the fantastic work already taking place, building skills and capacity to ensure we support children, young people, and families at the earliest opportunity.

School and Community Teams will work predominantly with those families that require early help. The teams working practices will be rooted within our core ways of working and vital signs through relationship-based practice using Signs of Safety, Solihull, Communities of Practice, Joint Agency Group Supervision, Restorative working and Family Networking.

About the role:

We are seeking experienced family community workers to join us on a permanent basis.

You will be required to-

• Provide support alongside community partners to children, young people, and their families through the delivery of early help support as part of Norfolk’s integrated Family Hub model. Working collaboratively with partners and to support the development of community place-based service offer that responds to local need.
• Work with local organisations and families in communities, helping them build community led provision and peer to peer support enabling more families to access locally available support at the earliest opportunity.
• Assist with identifying children, young people and families within the community that require support and initiating the most appropriate early help response, providing access to the local early help offer or initiating early help assessment and planning where required.
• Advise & support the workforce on the initiation and delivery of early help assessment & plans, sharing good practice, promoting collaboration and the coordination of team around the family approaches.

We will be holding a virtual open evening on 3rd May- please sign up using this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/622407787447

Interviews Interview dates will be w/c 22nd May TBC

For further information about the role, please contact the team via email recruitmentschoolandcommunity@norfolk.gov.uk

We want our people to be inspired and motivated to enjoy working well together, make the most of our workspaces, enjoy a healthy work-life balance, and deliver excellent services to Norfolk and its people. Flexibility is built into the way we work, with hybrid working a key feature for many roles. Our technology platform and equipment are first class, enabling you to connect and collaborate remotely. We ask that you have in place good Broadband connectivity.

Already a Norfolk County Council employee? See and apply for all internal and external vacancies via myOracle using your @norfolk.gov.uk or @nccal.ac.uk email address.

Before you apply please see the full job description and person specification in the below link – this will help you to shape your application to demonstrate how you meet the criteria for the role.

Job Description and Person Specification

You can also find out about the rewards and benefits we offer as well as our other terms and conditions.

Closing date: 9 May 2023