Senior Social Worker 2601

Permanent contract | 37 hours per week | £39,248 to £43,517 per annum (Grade K) | Norwich

Our Community Assessment and Family Time and Service supports with delivering Family Time for Looked After Children and community assessments for families during both pre-proceedings and proceedings. Our aim is to enable more children to remain at home safely with their families, and where they are not able to remain at home, to help build safer relationships, promote risk sensible practice and support reunification.

This is not a traditional statutory Social Work role. As a Senior Social Worker for our brand-new service, you’ll undertake bespoke 8-week assessments, working in parallel with the child’s allocated Social Worker. You will be responsible for planning, co-ordinating and delivering community-based assessments with intensive support. You will, along with your team, will utilise specialist skills to work with children and families to deliver positive change.

You’ll make recommendations for future planning to the Court and to inform child protection planning. Leading in complex situations, you’ll provide professional support to staff and lead practice development within the team. The bespoke nature of the assessments offers the right candidates an opportunity to focus on implementing real change through relationship-based practice, collaborative working and a clear focus on the child. It will offer opportunities for the right candidate to focus on the quality of each assessment and intervention and will provide experience of leading practice within a team.

As a registered Social Worker with substantial experience in childcare work, you’ll evidence knowledge of evaluating, monitoring and developing quality of childcare practice.

At Norfolk County Council, we know what’s important to you; feeling supported and a team that works together. Our Social Workers have told us they work with some great people and together they make a difference to the children and young people of Norfolk.

We have ambitious plans to shape how we work with families, placing practitioners and relationship-based practice at the heart of what we do. Through Vital Signs, our vision for Children in Norfolk, we use Signs of Safety practice to work with whole family networks and across the whole system to support families to build on their strengths and to achieve the best possible outcomes.

You should also love the place you work. With stunning beaches, world-class cultural events, an affordable lifestyle, and the Broads National Park right on your doorstep, Norfolk is the ideal place to perfect your work life balance.

If you’re an experienced children’s Social Worker and want to work together with us to shaping the future of Children’s Services in Norfolk, we want to hear from you.

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 paid upfront (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.

Before you apply , we recommend reading the full Job Description and Person Specification to help you demonstrate you meet the criteria. You can also find information on our Terms and Conditions here.

Already a Norfolk County Council employee? please apply using your @norfolk.gov.uk or @nccal.ac.uk email.

Closing date: 07 April 2023