Assistant Practitioner 11139

Job Description

Supported Assistant Practitioner/Assistant Practitioner | 11139 | temporary contract to cover maternity leave for 12 months/secondment opportunity | 37 hours per week | £30,023 to £32,046 (F) or £33,119 to £34,811 per annum (G) | Grade F/G | Norwich Community Hospital

Could you support the communities of Norfolk using your previous Health or Social Care experience?  If so, we’d love to hear from you.

We have a full-time opportunity in our Home First Hub, which is an integrated team working closely with our East of England Community Health & Care (EECH&C) and NHS colleagues to ensure safe and timely hospital discharge for those in community and acute hospitals across the Central Area of Norfolk.

This is a developing team committed to supporting people to return home, access reablement opportunities and plan their ongoing care and support needs once discharged.

You will possess experience in the Health or Social Care sector and have a good standard of education along with excellent IT and organisational skills. You will be competent at working at pace in a responsive fast-paced environment, with a positive can-do attitude.  You will use your professional curiosity around information exchanging and community resources, possessing the ability to work independently or as part of a team.

Along with good listening and analytical skills, you will be flexible and adaptable to new ways of working and committed to supporting people to leave hospital safely. In return, we will offer a well-planned induction, the opportunity to learn new skills and a supportive working environment while making a difference to the communities of Norfolk you work with.

This is a hybrid role. You will be required to visit hospitals, complete face-to-face assessments as well as attending your office base at least three times a week. You will also have the opportunity to work remotely for some of the time so require good broadband connectivity.

Adult Social Services in Norfolk is on an ambitious, exciting transformation journey. We're redesigning how we work to create a system that is flexible, human, and focused on better outcomes. As part of this journey, you'll contribute to an environment where learning is continuous, insight is shared, and innovation is encouraged. We support flexible and hybrid working, with a minimum expectation of two days per week spent in a community or office setting, helping you stay connected with colleagues, communities and the people we support.

As part of a large-scale transformation in support of the Discharge to Assess model and to optimise the experience for our service recipients/patients, your role may stay in The Hub or move to assessing people in their own homes.

Some weekend working will be required.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Team Manager Laura Harvey on [phone removed].

We're looking to appoint either a Supported Assistant Practitioner (Scale F) or an experienced Assistant Practitioner (Scale G) and require a CV and Supporting Statement from you. In this, you should set out how you meet the essential and desirable criteria of each of the roles, so we advise reading the full Job Description and Person Specification for each first before applying: 

Supported Assistant Practitioner - job description and person specification

Assistant Practitioner - job description and person specification

 Our Supported Assistant Practitioners (Scale F) join our 9-month, bespoke support programme (The Assistant Practitioner Development Programme), enabling you to progress to an Assistant Practitioner role (Scale G) subject to satisfactory programme completion. 

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 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 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.

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: 17 September 2026

All other applicants closing date: 24 September 2026
 

About us

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.
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