Assistant Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 28/08/2026
- Closes
- 13/09/2026
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Role summary
This role supports the 0-19 Healthy Child Service, providing high-quality care to improve health outcomes for children, young people, and their families. You will assist in assessing and reviewing clinical needs, working without direct supervision to support clients in universal and targeted services. The position involves liaising with clinical teams, developing specialist interest areas, and delivering evidenced-based health advice. You will also assist School Nurses with client management and care delivery.
Essential criteria
- NVQ level 3 in health, social care, education or an equivalent.
Desirable criteria
- Foundation degree in relevant area.
- Recent experience of working with children and young people and families.
- Building professional relationships with parents/carers
- Demonstrates the ability to safeguarding children.
- Experience of working with families in the community
- Planning and facilitating groups to deliver health promotion messages
- Good communication skills and have the ability to change communication style depending on audience.
- Ability to analyse information and use reasoning skills to assess clients needs.
- Robust IT skills and clear record keeping.
- Understanding of the public health agenda and national and local policies relating to Children and Young People's health and wellbeing, including Working Together to Safeguard Children.
- Understanding key public health resources to support the children and families of Norfolk.
- Ability to apply and use assessment tools to support a childs developmental assessment and identify need
- Knowledge of Systm1
- Experience in or knowledge of child development
- NVQ level 3 in health, social care, education or an equivalent.
- Foundation degree in relevant area.
- Recent experience of working with children and young people and families.
- Building professional relationships with parents/carers
- Demonstrates the ability to safeguarding children.
- Experience of working with families in the community
- Planning and facilitating groups to deliver health promotion messages
- Good communication skills and have the ability to change communication style depending on audience.
- Ability to analyse information and use reasoning skills to assess clients needs.
- Robust IT skills and clear record keeping.
- Understanding of the public health agenda and national and local policies relating to Children and Young People's health and wellbeing, including Working Together to Safeguard Children.
- Understanding key public health resources to support the children and families of Norfolk.
- Ability to apply and use assessment tools to support a childs developmental assessment and identify need
- Knowledge of Systm1
- Experience in or knowledge of child development
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 4 at £26,530 – £29,114 a year, across England.
This advert: £28,392 – £31,157 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 10d ago · Closes in 7d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust (Cambridge)
Assistant Practitioner
The closing date is 13 September 2026
Job summary
To support the integrated 0-19 Healthy Child Service (HCS) in providing an innovative and high quality service to improve health outcomes for children, young people and their families
To support the assessment and review of clinical needs
To work without direct supervision to support clients as part of the universal and Targeted aspects of the service provision
To liaise with colleagues within the clinical team to assist in the coordination and development of the service.
To develop specialist interest areas in order to enrich the knowledge and skills set within the Norfolk Children & Young People's Health Service.
Should we receive a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close the advert after 4th September 2026
Interviews may be held on 20th or 21st September.
Main duties of the job
To assist the School Nurses in the management and delivery of care to clients. Duties may include:
Contacts with young people will be delivered in a variety of ways such as families homes, and venue based such as schools at a variety of locations across the collaborative localities
Building on existing assessment of families' needs and deliver evidenced based health advice without direct supervision.
Receiving referrals, tr
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