Early Help Consultant - North (6602)
Cromer, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Temporary contract for 12 months | 37 hours per week | £34,834 to £36,648 per annum (Grade I) | Cromer
Early Help Consultant
Schools and Community Team – North Norfolk
Schools and Community Teams work predominantly with those children and their families that require early help.
The teams’ working practices are rooted within our core ways of working and vital signs through relationship-based practice using Signs of Safety, Solihull, Communities of Practice, Joint Agency Group Supervision, Restorative Working and Family Networking.
About the role
You will be required to:
* Offer consultancy support to schools, settings and other partners enabling the co-ordinated delivery of early help support to children with SEND and their families.
* Support the team to respond to schools and settings with their families to identify and meet the needs of children and young people within their community, enacting preventative and early help approaches that ensure SEND support is provided at the earliest opportunity.
* Provide support and challenge to partners completing Early Help Assessment and Plans (EHAP), to ensure that the work they are completing, alongside their children and families, has significant and sustained impact and is effectively co-ordinated.
* Contribute to the continued development and embedding of skills and capacity of the workforce to deliver integrated early help SEND with families, including the development of communities of practice that embed whole family working, collaboration, co-ordination and joint agency group supervision.
If you are interested in this post, please upload your CV and a supporting statement, describing how you meet the essential criteria.
Before you apply, we recommend reading the full Job Description and Person Specification to help you demonstrate you meet the criteria.
Benefits
These are some benefits you can enjoy by working for Norfolk County Council:
* Competitive salary
* Generous holiday entitlement with the ability to buy and sell leave
* 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:
o Norfolk Rewards our employee discount 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.
o A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers
o Relocation expenses (where applicable)
o An advance of your expenses if you travel for work
o Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, life assurance, death in service payments and dependants’ pensions.
o A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job.
o Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension, new bikes and electric cars.
You can find information on our Terms and Conditions here.
Closing date: 26 September 2024
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