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Three posts | permanent contracts | full-time 37 hours per week | £22,369 to £24,054 per annum (Grade E) | King’s Lynn

Home Based Support Worker, Children’s Services, Intensive and Specialist Support Service

We have three full-time, permanent positions available based at Priory House, King’s Lynn covering the West locality. In this role, you will be contracted to work from Monday to Sunday.

Are you passionate about providing parents and their children with the guidance and support they need to live within the community and family home?

We are looking to recruit Home-Based Support Workers to work in our Family Help teams with the aim to enable more children to remain at home safely with their families.

As a Home-Based Support Worker, you will work with families, directed by Family Practitioners/Social Workers to promote safety and well-being and prevent escalation of need.

Interventions will be one-to-one with families:

• Motivating and supporting families to overcome barriers with parenting and home environment management, eg cleanliness, routines, mealtimes, bedtimes, promoting attachment parenting styles that build trust and healthy relationships

• Role modelling, advice and guidance for successful nurturing parenting.

• Supporting families to access other professional services (Mental Health, Health, Housing, Benefits, etc.).

With an NVQ level 3 in a relevant subject or equivalent experience, you will be willing to undertake Signs of Safety, Restorative Practice and Solihull training in your first year. You will have relevant experience providing services for children and young people, and their families and an understanding of child development from birth to 19 including factors which impede overall development.

In order to support families when they most need it, Home Based Support Workers will be on a 37 hour per week, 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 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 an innovative service providing the best possible support to parents and families to ensure children thrive in their care.

The interview process will consist of a competency-based interview. If this is successful, a further safe care (Warner) interview will follow.

Please ensure when submitting your covering letter, you evidence fully how you meet the essential and desirable criteria of the role.

If you wish to discuss this opportunity further, please call Katie Mathunjwa on 01553 669630 or email [email protected].

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.

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Closing date: 19 September 2023