Norfolk County Council
Team Manager (Best Start Inclusion)
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Team Manager (Best Start Inclusion) | 11007 | Permanent Contract | 37 hours per week | £50,166 to £54,277 per annum | Grade L | Countywide (with Countywide Travel)
Help give every child the best start in life.
Are you passionate about inclusion, early intervention, and improving outcomes for young children and families?
Norfolk County Council is looking for an experienced and inspiring leader to join our Prevention and Early Help Service as a Team Manager (Best Start Inclusion).
This is a unique opportunity to lead a newly established county-wide team of Best Start Inclusion Practitioners who will provide flexible, practical, and evidence-based support to children aged 0 to 5 years with emerging additional needs and their families. Working across our network of Best Start Family Hubs, outreach locations, and community settings, you will help ensure children receive the right support at the right time, improving developmental outcomes and reducing inequalities.
Successful candidates will lead and develop a team of 7 to 8 Best Start Inclusion Practitioners, providing professional leadership, supervision, and support to ensure high-quality practice and positive outcomes.
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They will work closely with Community, Inclusion, SEND, and Early Years professionals to ensure the Best Start Inclusion offer complements existing services and pathways, enabling children's and families' needs to be identified and supported at the earliest opportunity.
For more information about this role, please contact Carla Nichols – Early Childhood System Development Manager via carla.nichols@norfolk.gov.uk
Before you apply, we recommend reading the full Job Description and Person Specification to help you demonstrate you meet the criteria.
Benefits of 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
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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: 2nd August 2026 at 23:55
- All other applicants closing date: 23rd August 2026 at 23:55
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