Residential Children's Practitioner - Level 3 (Children with Disabilities)
Job reference: 11611
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37 hours per week (including on-call and sleep in payments, evenings and weekend, as required)
Salary: £35,570 to £37,563 per annum, Grade H
Location: Applewood Children's Home, Norwich

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.

To apply, you must download a Norfolk County Council application form and attach it to your online application.

At Norfolk County Council we are committed to providing proven, quality, holistic residential care for children and young people aged 5-17 and we aim to achieve excellent outcomes and lasting results. We are passionate about the provision of creative and ambitious opportunities we offer children with disabilities. Our services are well regarded, and we are proud of our reputation of ensuring the best outcomes.

Applewood is a children's residential home in Norwich. We provide holistic care to your people with a variety of needs which include young people with learning disabilities (either diagnosed or undiagnosed) and also children/young people with emotional and behavioural needs.

As a Level 3 Residential Children's Practitioner, you will be expected to share specialist knowledge and experience in the induction of casual and new staff members. Provide supervision sessions and mentoring for team members within the home and be a positive role model for less experienced staff and providing feedback to management on opportunities and concerns. You will also be expected to deputise for the management team when working as part of the manager on call rota. The working week will be split between sleep in shifts and office days dependent on the needs of the home.

You will be joining a highly motivated and enthusiastic team who endeavour to make significant changes in young people's lives.

To work within this environment, you will need to be committed to making a difference in the lives of young people. You will need to be reliable, have good personal relationship and communication skills as well as high professional standards. A background in residential care is desirable, previous work with young people is essential. A full driving licence is required for this post.

Before you apply, we recommend reading the full Job Description and Person Specification to help you demonstrate you meet the criteria.

For an informal discussion please contact Carissa Wykes, Assistant Team Manager on 01603 303371.

Benefits

• 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, dependent on your job role and business need
• Norfolk Rewards employee discounts programme
• 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 tax efficient car lease scheme for greener travel (subject to eligibility)
• A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job

Closing dates
Redeployment closing date: 18 November 2026 at 23:55
All other applicants closing date: 25 November 2026 at 23:55

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.