Temporary contract to cover maternity leave | full-time 37 hours per week | £24,294 to £25,979 per annum (Grade E) | Norwich
Network Coordinator – Children with Disabilities (CWD)
Temporary contract for one year starting in October 2024
North, East and Broadland
Do you have excellent administration skills and looking for a role where you can integrate yourself within a frontline social care team?
Our Children with Disabilities service provides support to children and young people with substantial and permanent disabilities 0-18 years of age. We have 3 teams which cover Norfolk and they are multi-disciplinary, consisting of Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapist Assistant Practitioners and Assistant Practitioners.
We maintain strong links with internal and external partners to ensure a holistic response to the needs of the children and families we are working with.
Our Network Coordinators provide direct support and assistance to operational Team Managers and social care practitioners, enabling them to have more time to undertake direct work with children, young people, and families.
You will be the point of contact for both internal and external customers, you will need excellent interpersonal skills. You should be confident in undertaking a range of duties with a practice focus, including the production of documents, populating spreadsheets, organising and minuting meetings. As well as associated administrative tasks, finance tasks and other duties required to support the frontline practitioners.
If you are committed to delivering first class levels of support to operational teams, want to make a difference to the lives of children and young people, then this is the perfect opportunity for you.
Whilst working remotely will be a key feature of this role, office-based working will be determined by the needs of the business. Our technology platform and equipment are first class enabling you to connect and collaborate remotely. We ask that you have in place good Broadband connectivity.
For an informal discussion please contact Heather Riseborough, Business Manager on 01603 223590 or email [email protected]
Before you apply, we recommend reading the full Job Description and Person Specificationto 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 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:
- ‘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.
- 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.
- A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job.
- Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension, new bikes and electric cars.
You can find information on our Terms and Conditions here.
Already a Norfolk County Council employee? please apply using your @norfolk.gov.uk or @nccal.ac.uk email.
Closing date for redeployees to receive priority consideration: 22 September 2024
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