Early Help Community Workers

Job title:

Early Help Community Workers

Company

Norfolk County Council

Job description

Job Category: EducationJob Description:Early Help Community Worker | 8033 | permanent contracts | 37 or 18.5 hours per week | £30,559 to £32,654 per annum pro rata | Grade G | BroadlandDo you have experience of working in the community with children or families?Are you passionate about enabling and empowering children and families to FLOURISH?This is an exciting opportunity to join the Communities & Partnerships team within Norfolk County Council’s Children’s Services as part of a dedicated link into the new Family Hub arrangements for Norfolk. The role is covering the Broadland area.You will be a key part of our prevention and early help workforce promoting and supporting the development and safeguarding of children, young people and families.You will be working alongside local partners, district community programmes and initiatives to support the needs of families with an age range of 0-19 and up to 25 for those with Special Educational Needs.We will:

• Ensure clear communications are in place so that children and families understand what services are available to them and how they access them but also reach out to families that would benefit from support but might never proactively come to us themselves.

• Ensure connection between services in ways that make sense for children and families, joining up pathways so that they only have to tell their story once and their service experience is smoother and more aligned. ·

• Build on our strong existing work around relationships and relational practice, extending the reach of our whole family practice across the whole range of services that are part of Family Hubs.

You will be required to:

• Provide support alongside community partners to children, young people, and their families as part of Norfolk’s integrated Family Hub Network, 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.

Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check to assess the suitability of candidates to work with children or other vulnerable groups.We have two permanent positions available:1 x full-time – 37 hours per week1 x part-time – 18.5 hours per week.Please advise in your application whether you would prefer full-time or part-time work.For an informal discussion regarding this vacancy please contact Melanie Perry (Community and Partnerships Manager) at melanie.perry@norfolk.gov.ukBefore you apply, we recommend reading the full 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
• 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:

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our employee discounts 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.
• Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension and new bikes
• Access to our tax efficient car lease scheme for greener travel enabling you to lease a brand new, ultra-low emission vehicle (subject to eligibility)
• A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job

You can find information on our here.Already a Norfolk County Council employee? See and apply for internal and external vacancies in using your @norfolk.gov.uk or @nccal.ac.uk email.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.Redeployment closing date: 22 May 2025All other applicants closing date: 29 May 2025

Expected salary

£30559 – 32654 per year

Location

Norfolk

Job date

Sat, 17 May 2025 07:57:24 GMT

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