Residential Children’s Practitioner - Level 2 & 3 (Residential Children’s Home) | 10774 | Permanent Contract and Secondment Opportunity / Temporary Contract for 12 months | 37 hours per week | £32,061 to £36,363 per annum | Grade G/H | Hindolveston, Dereham
Positions available :
Residential Children’s Practitioner - Level 2, Secondment Opportunity / Temporary Contract for 12 months. 37 hours per week.
Salary (Grade G) - £32,061 to £33,699 per annum plus sleep in allowance and weekend enhancements.
Residential Children’s Practitioner - Level 3, Permanent Contract. 37 hours per week.
Salary (Grade H) - £34,434 to £36,363 per annum plus on calls, sleep ins, evenings and weekend work as required.
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 requirements carefully and apply only if you can fully commit to them.
To apply, you must download a Norfolk County Council application form >> Here << and attach it to your online application.
This is an exciting opportunity in Norfolk Residential Children’s Homes providing emergency and time limited, specialist care for young people (male and female) aged between 8 - 17 years, when either family, foster care, mainstream residential or other community-based placements are not possible or desirable at the time.
As a level 2 Residential Children’s Practitioner you will be expected to contribute to an assessment of the child's needs with the objective of either reunification, a move to a family or community-based placement, or a longer term or a more specialised residential home.
As a Level 3 Residential Children’s Practitioner , you will be expected to share specialist knowledge and experience in the induction of casual and new staff members. Provide supervision sessions and mentoring for team members within the home and be a positive role model for less experienced staff and providing feedback to management on opportunities and concerns. You will also be expected to deputise for the management team when working as part of the manager on call rota. The working week will be split between sleep in shifts and office days dependent on the needs of the home.
Please see job descriptions for the full differences between the posts.
Residential Children’s Practitioner Level 2 - Job Description and Person Specification
Residential Children’s Practitioner Level 3 - Job Description and Person Specification
Ideally you will have a background in residential care or be experienced in working with children. You will be required to have good levels of literacy and numeracy and hold the Level 3 Diploma for Residential Childcare or a similar qualification.
You will be joining a highly motivated and enthusiastic team who endeavour to make significant changes in young people’s lives.
To work within this environment, you will need to be committed to making a difference in the lives of young people. You will need to be reliable, have good personal relationship and communication skills as well as high professional standards. A background in residential care is desirable, previous work with young people is essential and a full driving licence is required for this post.
Before you apply , we recommend reading the full Job Description and Person Specification to help you demonstrate you meet the criteria.
To apply, you must download a Norfolk County Council application form >> Here << and attach it to your online application.
For an informal discussion please contact Adam King, Assistant Team Manager – 01328-850220 or email [email protected]
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 – dependant on your job role and business need.
- Financial benefits such as:
- ‘ Norfolk Rewards’ 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 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.
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 also find information on our Terms and Conditions here.
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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: 1 July 2026 at 23:55
All other applicants closing date: 8 July 2026 at 23:55
