Job Description

Fostering Clinician | 10483 | Permanent Contract | Full-time 37 hours per week / Part-time 18.5 hours per week | £43,822 to £48,227 pro rata per annum | Grade K | Norfolk

An exciting opportunity has arisen for 4 x Full-time and 1 x Part-time Clinicians to join the Therapeutic Services, Fostering Team who work across the County of Norfolk.

If you have experience of working with children and families and have a passion for supporting them in effecting sustained change, then we would like to hear from you.

This post is based in the Fostering Service and the expectation is that the Clinician will work alongside social work teams in an integrated, trauma- informed service that aims to improve outcomes for children and young people and their foster carers. Norfolk’s social care model is a relationship-based, purposeful approach with social workers practicing in a trauma informed way, incorporating therapeutic approaches within their work with children and young people and foster carers.

The Clinician will offer specialist support to foster carers and the respective social workers. The Clinician will offer clinical advice and consultation to social workers and foster carers.

Direct work is offered when the level of concern about a young person’s presentation or needs indicates intervention is required, alongside the work of the social work team and/or support services.

The Clinician will support those foster carers who support children stepping down from residential care to family-based care and will assist in devising an appropriate support plan that is based on individual need of both the children, young people and the foster carers.

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

Please note that we will consider a newly qualified Clinical Psychologist in a developmental post, with the aim of advancing to a higher banding via preceptorship. Please state in your supporting statement if you would be interested in this.

These are some benefits you can enjoy by working for Norfolk County Council:

• 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 – dependant on your job role and business need.
• Financial benefits such as:
  • ‘Norfolk Rewards’ our employee discounts 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.

  • 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

You can also find information on our Terms and Conditions here.

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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: 28 May 2026 at 23:55

All other applicants closing date: 03 June 2026 at 23:55