Senior Social Worker – Community Assessment & Family Time (Children’s Services) | 10972 | Secondment Opportunity / Temporary Fixed Term Contract for 12 Months | 37 hours per week | £43,822 to £48,227 per annum | Grade K | Norwich

Our Community Assessment and Family Time Service supports with delivering Family Time for Looked After Children and community assessments for families during both pre-proceedings and proceedings. Our aim is to enable more children to remain at home safely with their families, and where they are not able to remain at home, to help build safer relationships, promote risk sensible practice and support reunification. 

This is not a traditional statutory Social Work role. As a Senior Social Worker for Community Assessments, you’ll undertake bespoke 8-week assessments, working in parallel with the child’s allocated Social Worker. You will be responsible for planning, co-ordinating and delivering community-based assessments with intensive support. You will, along with your team, will utilise specialist skills to work with children and families to deliver positive change.

This is a 12-month temporary post, covering maternity leave.

At Norfolk County Council, we know what’s important to you; feeling supported and a team that works together. Our Social Workers have told us they work with some great people and together they make a difference to the children and young people of Norfolk.

We have ambitious plans to shape how we work with families, placing practitioners and relationship-based practice at the heart of what we do. Through Vital Signs, our vision for Children in Norfolk, we use Signs of Safety practice to work with whole family networks and across the whole system to support families to build on their strengths and to achieve the best possible outcomes. 

You should also love the place you work. With stunning beaches, world-class cultural events, an affordable lifestyle, and the Broads National Park right on your doorstep, Norfolk is the ideal place to perfect your work life balance.

If you’re an experienced children’s Social Worker and want to work together with us to shaping the future of Children’s Services in Norfolk, we want to hear from you.

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 – 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.

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

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: 30 July 2026 at 23:55

All other applicants closing date: 09 August 2026 at 23:55

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We provide a high quality service through involving people who use our services to shape and comment on them and by promoting efficiency and innovation.

We work in partnership with local businesses, voluntary organisations and other local authorities such as District and Parish Councils to provide the people of Norfolk with excellent services.
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