Child and Family Therapeutic Worker (West Norfolk & Breckland) | 11122 | Permanent Contract | 37 hours per week | £39,862 to £41,771 per annum | Grade J | West Norfolk & Breckland
Do you want to join a new and exciting service supporting Norfolk’s most vulnerable families?
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 for a dedicated resilient practitioner to join our Intensive and Specialist Support Service with the aim to enable more children to remain at home safely with their families.
As a Child and Family Therapeutic Worker, you will undertake therapeutic informed support to families, children, young people and adults, working alongside Social Workers/Family Practitioners to promote safety and well-being and prevent escalation of need. You will embrace Norfolk’s Vital Signs for children as an approach that underpins your work with children and families.
You will contribute to multi agency working and provide specialist knowledge in the field of mental health, trauma and emotional wellbeing in order to ensure positive outcomes for children, young people and their families.
You will have or be working towards a recognised professional qualification to degree level (nursing, social work, teaching, psychological therapy, or equivalent), with accreditation to practice as appropriate, and have relevant experience in providing direct interventions/therapeutic services for children and young people and their families.
You will have knowledge of risk and resilience factors for positive mental health in children and of common mental health problems in children and young people (including understanding of attachment theory).
You will have experience and knowledge of working with adolescents with complex behaviours and high risk-taking behaviours and of working collaboratively across agencies to establish joint systems to deliver and develop services.
You will have knowledge and experience of a range of therapeutic interventions which can be effective in working with children and families, working on a theoretical basis of psychosocial intervention.
In order to support families when they most need it, Child and Family Therapeutic workers will work 37 hours per week, Monday to Sunday. 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 competency-based interview. If this is successful, a further safe care (Warner) interview will follow.
Before you apply , we recommend reading the full Job Description and Person Specification to help you demonstrate you meet the criteria. (Please ensure when submitting your covering letter, you evidence fully how you meet the essential and desirable criteria of the role).
If you wish to discuss this opportunity further, please email Heather Heslin on [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: 27 August 2026 at 23:55
All other applicants closing date: 6 September 2026 at 23:55
