Early Help Consultant - Norwich

Early Help Consultant (Schools and Communities Team) | 11037 | Secondment Opportunity / Temporary Fixed Term Contract until March 2028 | 37 hours per week | £38,510 to £40,444 per annum | Grade I | Norwich (City)

Are you passionate about improving outcomes for children, young people and families?

Do you have experience of early help, education, social care or family support services? 

If so, we have an exciting opportunity to join our Schools and Community City South Team as an Early Help Consultant on a secondment or fixed term contract until March 2028.

As part of the role, you will be required to:

• Offer consultancy support to schools and other partners enabling the co-ordinated delivery of early help support to children with emerging SEND needs and their families. 
• Support schools and other agencies to identify and respond to the needs of children, young people and families within their community, enacting preventative and early help approaches that ensure support is provided at the earliest opportunity.
• Provide support and challenge to agencies completing Early Help Assessment and Plans (EHAP), to ensure that the work they are completing, alongside children and families, has significant and sustained impact.
• To contribute to the continued development and embedding of skills and capacity of the workforce to deliver integrated early help services for families. Including the development of communities of practice that embed whole family working, collaboration, co-ordination and joint agency group supervision. 
• Have a strong knowledge and confidence in using recording and reporting systems alongside systems for analysing data.

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

If you wish to find out more about the opportunity, please contact Philip Turner or Nicola Lane. 

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.

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: 9 September 2026 at 23:55

All other applicants closing date: 17 September 2026 at 23:55