Intensive Support Worker (Family Help) | 10555 | Permanent Contract | 37 hours per week | £32,061 to £33,699 per annum | Grade G | West Norfolk & Breckland
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?
As an Intensive Support Worker, you will undertake targeted, evidence-based and timely/time-limited interventions with families, working alongside Social Workers and Family Practitioners to promote safety and well‑being and prevent escalation of need. You will need to be able to work with parents/carers/children and their networks to build positive working relationships to promote engagement and positive change.
You will be required to role model and support with advice and guidance around parenting and behaviour and work with other professionals as needed in order to create positive outcomes for families. As well as working with Parents/Carers you will also work with young people individually to enable the personal, social and educational growth, social inclusion, reduction in anti‑social behaviour and improve access to services.
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.
These are some benefits you can enjoy by working for Norfolk County Council:
- 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.
- 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
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: 17 June 2026 at 23:55
All other applicants closing date: 24 June 2026 at 23:55
Job Info
- Job Identification 10555
- Job Category Social Care
- Posting Date 06/10/2026, 04:05 PM
- Apply Before 06/24/2026, 10:55 PM
- Job Schedule Full time
- Locations Elizabeth House, Dereham, Norfolk, NR19 1EE, GB
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