Advisor - Training and Engagement

Adviser – Training & Engagement | 9035 | Permanent Contract | 37 hours per week – Term Time plus 2 weeks | £45,501.25 to £49,412.80 per annum | Soulbury 8-11 | Norwich - Countywide

We have an exciting opportunity to join Norfolk Virtual School as an Adviser for training and engagement.

In this role, you will be under the direction of the adviser who leads the work for previously in care, children with a social worker and children in kinship care. In response to our statutory and non-statutory duties for these cohorts, this post will work to support the ongoing delivery and development of our trauma and attachment aware practice offer.

You will work with the strategic lead to expand the existing support offer to meet wider demand by upskilling school staff and ensuring settings are trauma- and attachment-aware. This includes understanding attachment theory, recognising the impact of attachment on emotional development and learning, and adopting a trauma and attachment aware whole-school approach to support pupils.

The role involves embedding best practices, capturing impact, and supporting the development of a community of practice within Norfolk. It also provides additional capacity to support schools delivering provision as part of Local First Inclusion and ensures the Virtual School offer remains responsive to need. You will work within a team to plan, promote, deliver and evaluate a range of resources and evidence based interventions. A significant part of the role will be leading the work to develop our pre and post course support to schools and settings who access our training to support implementation, embedding and sustaining changes to practice as well as working to collect evidence of impact.

An integral part of this role will be the requirement to deliver training either virtually or face to face to delegates within schools or our partners within Children’s services. This role will involve travel within Norfolk and can not be performed remotely. The ability to facilitate twilight training events will be a required part of the role. 

If you are passionate about improving outcomes for children and young people and working to support understanding and reduce the significant barriers to education that they may face, we would like to hear from you.  

Please contact the Strategic Lead for Previously in Care, Children with a Social Worker and Kinship, Harriet Tunnicliff harriet.tunnicliff@norfolk.gov.uk if you would like an informal discussion about this role. 

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

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
• ‘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: 13 October 2025 at 23:55

All other applicants closing date: 21 October 2025 at 23:55