Job Description

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 and Person Specification’s below to help you demonstrate you meet the criteria.

Social Worker Level 2 – Children with Disabilities – Job Description and Person Specification

Senior Social Worker – Children with Disabilities – Job Description and Person Specification

For more information or an informal discussion please contact Lynn Carter on 01603 692473 or email lynn.carter@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

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: 01 June 2026 at 23:55

All other applicants closing date: 07 June 2026 at 23:55