Family Practitioner

Family Practitioner (7131)

Job Description

Permanent contract 37 hours per week £32,076 to £33,945 per annum (Grade H) Norwich

Family Support Practitioner

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Family Practitioner to work in Family Help in the South Norfolk area. Your office base will be County Hall in Norwich.

If you have experience of working with children and families and have a passion for supporting them in effecting sustained change, then we would like to hear from you.

We are looking for an experienced practitioner who can manage a complex caseload of Family Support cases, whilst also offering peer support, coaching, mentoring, role modelling to Practitioners and support to the Team Manager.

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

Our purpose in Family Help is to keep children and young people safe through early intervention to prevent the need for statutory involvement. We do this working alongside the family, their network and other professionals naming and addressing worries, creating plans which identify the support needed to achieve positive outcomes and empower the family to effect change.

Your role as a Family Practitioner will be varied and challenging, so a high level of resilience is required. It is fast paced so you will need to be flexible, use your initiative and skill set to manage your workload and support the wider team. A family's needs and situation can change so you will need to be able to prioritise, adapt your practice and remain calm when under pressure.

Family Support is a strengths-based service where the child is at the centre of our work, their voice and views are the most important. You will need to be able to identify and understand risk and keep this under review this throughout the case.

You will need good IT skills, proficiency in Word, Excel and databases and be able to communicate effectively at all levels.

If you would like an informal discussion about the position before applying, please contact Michael Mills, Prevention Team Manager via email in the first instance 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:

  • ' 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 (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.

You can find information on our Terms and Conditions here.

Already a Norfolk County Council employee? please apply using email.

Closing date for redeployees to receive priority consideration: 17 November 2024

Closing date: 24 November 2024