Residential Childrens Practitioner - Casual

King's Lynn, Norfolk, United Kingdom

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 haveestablishedkey principles for their ideal worker to help them flourish. Please ensure you readthese requirements carefully and apply only if you can fully commit to them.

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 .

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

• 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.
• 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

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Closing date: 13 August 2026 at 23:55

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. We are the main local authority for Norfolk providing services countywide to more than 850,000 Norfolk residents. We take the lead in critical policy areas, working with 84 elected Members responsible for the strategic local government services in the county. We provide a high quality service through involving people who use our services to shape and comment on them and by promoting efficiency and innovation. We work in partnership with local businesses, voluntary organisations and other local authorities such as District and Parish Councils to provide the people of Norfolk with excellent services.

• Job Identification 10991
• Job Category Social Care - Res
• Posting Date 07/30/2026, 08:12 AM
• Apply Before 08/13/2026, 10:55 PM
• Job Schedule Part time
• Locations Marshfields, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, PE34 3NB, GB