Missing Practitioner North, East & Broadland

Missing Practitioner 9161 12 month Fixed-term contract 37 hours per week 31537 to 33699 per annum (Scale G) Great Yarmouth

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced practitioner to provide excellent service to children and young people who go missing. The position is for a fix term contract until the 14^th November 2026. The office base is at Grey Friars in Gt Yarmouth.

You will be able to quickly engage with young people to build a picture of their experiences and associated risks and have a good understanding of the push and pull factors that impact on young people who go missing.

Working alongside a range of professionals in our Targeted Youth Support Service the role involves carrying out return to home interviews and contributes to robust planning and intervention to reduce missing episodes.

Your role as a Missing Practitioner will be varied and challenging so a high level of resilience is required. It is fast paced so you will need to be flexible use your initiative and skill set to manage your workload and respond to clear deadlines.

We will be able to offer you a friendly and supportive working environment where learning and development are promoted through the support of an experienced management group.

Whilst it is based in the North East and Broadland locality this role will require travel across the county.

For an informal discussion regarding this vacancy please contact Chris Bloore (Team Manager) on or email .

Before you apply we recommend reading the full Job description and person specification to help you demonstrate how you meet the criteria. You can also find information on ourTerms and Conditionshere.

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 dependent on your job role and business need.

• Financial benefits such as:

  • Norfolk Rewardsour employee discounts programme which helps yousave 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

We want our people to be inspired and motivated to work well together make the most of our workspaces enjoy a healthy work-life balance and deliver excellent services to Norfolk and its people. Flexibility is built into the way we work with hybrid working a key feature formany roles. Our technology platform and equipment are first class enabling you to connect and collaborate remotely. We ask that you have in place good Broadband connectivity.

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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: 23 November 2025 23:59

All other applicants closing date: 2 December 2025 23:59