Social Worker – Children with Disabilities | 10520 | Permanent Contract| 37 hours per week | £39,862 to £48,227 per annum | Grade J/K | North, East and Broadland (Based in County Hall, Norwich)
We are pleased to announce an opportunity for a Social Worker with the Children with Disabilities Service, in our North, East and Broadland team.
Our Children with Disabilities (CWD) service provides support to children and young people with substantial and permanent disabilities who are 0-18 years of age.
We have three teams which cover Norfolk, and they are multi-disciplinary consisting of Social Workers, Family Practitioners, Assistant Practitioners, Occupational Therapists and Occupational Therapist Assistant Practitioners.
The CWD North, East and Broadland team are a close-knit team working in a multi-disciplinary approach to support children, young people and their families across all aspects from initial referral to their full journey through Children’s Services including CIN, CP, CLA and transitioning to Adulthood.
We maintain strong links with internal and external partners to ensure a holistic response to the needs of the children, young people and families we are working with.
The role will be case holding, working to identify areas of need, identifying support packages that are appropriate to meet the identified needs and pieces of individual work through our CWD Occupational Therapists or CWD Outreach to enable young people have equal opportunities as those of their non-disabled peers.
Before you apply, we recommend reading the full Job Description and Person Specification’s below to help you demonstrate you meet the criteria.
1. Competitive salary
2. Generous holiday entitlement
3. Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service
4. Flexible working opportunities including flexi-time, part time, remote and hybrid working – dependant on your job role and business need.
5. Financial benefits such as:‘A for Fire Service and Social Care WorkersRelocation expenses (where applicable)An advance of your expenses if you travel for workLocal 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
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