Residential Childrens Practitioner Casual

Residential Children’s Practitioner (Children with Disabilities) | 10991 | Casual Contract | £13.90 per hour | Grade E | Kings Lynn

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 >> Here << and attach it to your online application. 

Marshfields is a Short Break Residential Children’s Home in West Lynn providing short breaks for children with disabilities and/or complex health needs and/or presenting challenging behaviour aged 5 to 17 yrs. 

We are looking to recruit Children’s Residential Practitioners to join our relief bank.  Our team are committed to providing a child centred, fun, and positive, nurturing environment for the children. This role will involve working shifts, waking nights and weekends. 

Ideally, we are looking for an individual who has experience and knowledge of working with children with a diverse range of individual needs. However, training can be provided for the right person and Norfolk County Council offer a range of on-going professional training opportunities. 

You will need to be reliable, have good personal relationship and communication skills as well as high professional standards to provide high-quality individualised care. In addition to your salary, enhancements are paid for weekend working.

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 Claire Pooley – Team Manager or Jamie Cowie -Assistant Team Manager on 01553 614980. 

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

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.

Closing date: 13 August 2026 at 23:55