Education & Family Worker- Norfolk

Education & Family Worker- 25 positions- county wide

Permanent- Either Full time (37 hours per week) or Part time (18.5 hours per week)

£27,344 to £29,439 (Scale G)

Are you currently working in an education sector with children or families in the early years or schools? Do you have experience of Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND)? Are you passionate about supporting vulnerable children, young people and their families?

About us:

2023 is an exciting time to join Norfolk County Council Childrens Services following a recent highly successful Ofsted inspection and the launch of our new School and Community model. We want children, young people, and their families in Norfolk to receive support at the earliest opportunity so that they can flourish. By acting together, as a prevention and early help system, we can enable families to receive the right support, at the right time.

This new model will mean we can build on the fantastic work already taking place, developing the skills and capacity to ensure we work alongside education providers to enable children, young people, and their families to have their needs met at the earliest opportunity.

School and Community Teams will work predominantly alongside education providers to assist those families that require early help. The teams working practices will be rooted within our core ways of working and vital signs through relationship-based practice using Signs of Safety, Solihull, Communities of Practice, Joint Agency Group Supervision, Restorative working and Family Networking.

Locations:

We are recruiting for 25 positions across Norfolk. Please apply to each location you would be happy to work at using the links below:

About the role:

We are seeking people with experience of working with vulnerable children, young people from any sector with an NVQ Level 3 in a relevant field.

You will be required to-

• Deliver quality evidence-based early interventions that assist education providers and parents/carers to respond to the unmet learning and support needs of vulnerable children and young people.
• Work with education settings and families developing smart action plans with interventions that focus on improving learning outcomes for children and young people.
• Manage a workload that responds to needs at both an early help and emerging support level, delivering early intervention and where required specialist support to de-escalate and step-down support from a specialist/statutory level.
• Offer emotional and practical support to settings, children, young people and their families that increases their capacity to engage and participate in education, build resilience, and helps them achieve positive outcomes.
• Model good practice in supporting children and young people with SEND within education settings and their family at a range of suitable venues.

As part of the school and community teams we are also wanting to ensure that there is a focus on early years learning so if you have knowledge and experience of working with the Early Years Foundation Stage to support child development through play and effective interactions and an understanding of how enabling environments can promote learning, development and emotional well-being, we would welcome your application.

To find out more about this role please click on the link to sign up to our Welcome Session on 3rd May 2023: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/622407787447

Interviews will be held week commencing 22nd May 2023

For further information about the role, please contact the team via email at: recruitmentschoolandcommunity@norfolk.gov.uk

We want our people to be inspired and motivated to work well together, make the most of our workspaces, enjoy a healthy work-life balance, and deliver excellent services to Norfolk and its people. Flexibility is built into the way we work, with hybrid working a key feature for many roles. Our technology platform and equipment are first class, enabling you to connect and collaborate remotely. We ask that you have in place good Broadband connectivity.

Already a Norfolk County Council employee? See and apply for all internal and external vacancies via myOracle using your @norfolk.gov.uk or @nccal.ac.uk email address.

Before you apply please see the full job description and person specification in the below link – this will help you to shape your application to demonstrate how you meet the criteria for the role.

Job Description and Person Specification

You can also find out about the rewards and benefits we offer as well as our other terms and conditions.

Closing Date: 9th May 2023