Supporting Resilience Practitioner (7990)

Supporting Resilience Practitioner | 7990 | permanent contract | 37 hours per week | £30,559 to £32,654 per annum | Grade G | Countywide

The Norfolk Fostering Duty and Supporting Resilience Team has a vacancy for a Supporting Resilience Practitioner. We are a close, and supportive team that started in April 2022. The Supporting Resilience Practitioner role will allow you the opportunity to work directly supporting connected carers, Foster Carers, their birth children and Looked After Children placed within the carer’s homes.

In this role you will focus on supporting connected and approved Foster Carers who care for looked after children as well as supporting carers to manage behaviours in a positive way. You will be working closely with the children services and fostering teams to ensure that carers are supported to build and grow resilience from a relationship focused intervention.

We cover the whole area of Norfolk, so you will need to be able to drive and feel confident to work across the county and on the surrounding borders. This is a creative thinking post which allows you the opportunity to work independently as well as part of the team of Enhanced Practitioners, Supporting Resilience Practitioners and Occupational Therapist Assistant Practitioner.

You are line managed by a fostering team manager who has years of experience and understanding the needs and services of the role. In addition, you will have access to clinical supervision with a clinician and psychologist. We will support you to promote your role to the wider Norfolk Fostering service, grow your knowledge and skills to support the service. If you need additional training in an area new to you, we will support this development and then your sharing of this to develop the understanding for the team.

You will have experience of working with children and families directly, experience working remotely, and be prepared to support carers groups, children, and young people’s activities. We work a hybrid approach of virtual and direct contact based at home and county hall in Norwich.

The role can be challenging, but we offer a flexible working pattern to meet the needs of the service and your own wellbeing. You will need to be able to work on a Thursday as it is the core team day each week.

Do you understand children with presenting behaviours and trauma, understanding of the impact of neglect and abuse, experience of supporting children and families where they may be a communication need or processing of information? Could you assist others with finding coping and supportive strategies to boost their own resilience and those they care for?

If you think this could be you, we will welcome your application.

For an informal discussion or further information please contact Julie Brooks, Team Manager, Duty, and Supporting Resilience Fostering Team on 01603 306338 or email [email protected]

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
• 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 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 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: 08 May 2025

All other applicants closing date: 12 May 2025

Interview date: 22 May 2025