Job Description

Practice Consultant | 10563 | Permanent contract | 37 hours per week | £43,822 to £48,227 per annum | (Grade K) | Kings Lynn

Are you a registered Social Worker with experience of hospital discharge and integrated working?

Are you motivated by improving flow while also embracing new, strengths-based ways of working that support people to live well in their communities?

We are excited to offer a permanent Practice Consultant Social Worker role to work alongside our existing Practice Consultant and Team manager, providing professional leadership and oversight of social work practice within community hospital, health led recovery and reablement settings across West Norfolk and further afield.

This role sits at the heart of our developing approach, supporting safe and timely discharges, system flow, and the continued embedding of Community Led Support (CLS) across practice.

You will work closely with community hospitals, health partners and social care teams to ensure the right support is in place for people at the right time. Your role will include:

• Providing day-to-day oversight of discharge activity and patient flow within community hospitals

• Attending and contributing to daily operational and flow meetings, including multi-disciplinary forums

• Supporting high-quality practice, including mental capacity considerations and safeguarding activity where required

• Strengthening relationships across health, social care, voluntary and community partners

A key part of this role is supporting and championing our Community Led Support (CLS) approach. You will:

• Promote strengths-based, person-centred practice, ensuring people’s networks, community assets and independence are considered from the point of admission and throughout discharge planning

• Support practitioners and partners to think differently about risk, independence and proportionate interventions

• Encourage a “home first” and community-focused mindset, aligning discharge planning with longer-term well-being

• Contribute to service development and continuous improvement, helping embed CLS within integrated hospital pathways

This role offers a unique opportunity to influence how hospital discharge and community support connect, ensuring practice reflects our values as well as system pressures.

Before you apply, we recommend reading the full and Person Specification to help you demonstrate you meet the criteria. You can also find information on our Terms and Conditions here.

For further information about the role, please contact Sherrilee Shackcloth, Team Manager, at sherrilee.shackcloth@norfolk.gov.uk

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

Already a Norfolk County Council employee? See and apply for internal and external vacancies in myOracle using your @norfolk.gov.uk or @nccal.ac.uk email.

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: Monday 1 June 2026 at 23:59

All other applicants closing date: Monday 8 June 2026 at 23:59

We have miles of beautiful coastline and our unique Broads, thriving market towns and a city with a proud cultural heritage. Our economy is growing and driven by innovation in a number of sectors, including energy and food. We also have ambitious plans for new housing and a building programme for schools across Norfolk. Our county a great place to live, work and visit, and is an excellent environment for businesses to start, grow and innovate.