Intensive Support Worker

Are you passionate about providing children and their families with the guidance and support they need to live within the community and thrive within the family home? We are looking to recruit a dedicated, resilient Support Worker to join our Family Help team covering Great Yarmouth, with the aim to enable more children to remain at home safely with their families.

This role is based at Greyfriars House, Great Yarmouth covering the East Norfolk locality. As an Intensive Support Worker, you will undertake targeted, evidence‑based and timely / time‑limited interventions with families, working alongside Social Workers and Family Practitioners to promote safety and well‑being and prevent escalation of need. You will embrace Norfolk Vital Signs for children as an approach that underpins your work with children and families.

You will need to have a minimum of three years’ experience of working directly with children and families. You will be confident delivering interventions one‑to‑one, or on a group basis, with children, young people and parents/caregivers. You will require an NVQ level 3 in a relevant subject or equivalent 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, Intensive Support Workers work a 37‑hour week, on a 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 a new and innovative service providing the best possible support to children and families. The interview process will consist of a safe care (Warner) interview. If this is successful, a further competency‑based interview will follow.

Young people are at the heart of our practice at Norfolk County Council. They have established key principles for their ideal worker to help them flourish. Please ensure you read these principles carefully and apply only if you can fully commit to them.

These are some benefits you can enjoy by working for Norfolk County Council:

• 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.
• 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.

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.