Assistant Practitioner - Health Visiting
At a glance
- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 08/09/2026
- Closes
- 16/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This is a Fixed Term/Secondment opportunity until March 2027 for an Assistant Practitioner within the Generic Health Visiting team in Carmarthenshire. The role involves working with families in their homes or community settings, as delegated by a Health Visitor, to improve the overall wellbeing and health of children and families. You will deliver evidence-based strategies and key messages from the Healthy Child Wales Programme.
Key responsibilities
- Undertake home visits to children / families and implement a planned programme of care, report progress / changes to the delegating Registered Practitioner.
- Prepare information packs, making appointments and participating in child health clinics under supervision.
- Give appropriate advice to families regarding childcare e.g. nutrition, sleep problems, and behaviour.
- Follow-up parents / children who default appointments.
- Reinforce key public health messages to children and parents/carers provided by the relevant practitioner.
- Give advice on issues of safety in the home and the local community.
- Facilitate a range of group work.
Essential criteria
- Good standard of education, GCSE English and Maths (Grade A-C) or Level II equivalent qualification.
- NVQ/QCF Level 4 or equivalent level of knowledge or NVQ/QCF Level 3 PLUS Additional training to Diploma level or equivalent or Equivalent through short courses and experience and equivalent competencies achieved and evidenced through accredited courses
- Experience of working in health visiting, school nursing, children's social care or education.
Desirable criteria
- Community experience
- Welsh Speaker (Level 1)
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 4 at £26,530 – £29,114 a year, across England.
This advert: £28,819 – £31,626 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Hywel Dda University Health Board
Assistant Practitioner - Health Visiting
The closing date is 16 September 2026
Job summary
This is a Fixed Term/Secondment vacancy until 31/3/2027
If you are a Hywel Dda University Health Board employee and are applying for this post as a secondment, agreement for the secondment is needed from your current manager prior to application.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work as an Assistant Practitioner within the Generic Health Visiting team in Carmarthenshire.
As an Assistant practitioner you will be working as part of a skill mix team with families in their homes or community settings, as delegated by the Health visitor to improve the overall wellbeing and health of children and families.
To support the best possible outcomes for children and families the Assistant Practitioner will deliver evidence based strategies and key messages from the Healthy Child Wales Programme.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will:
- Undertake home visits to children / families and implement a planned programme of care, report progress / changes to the delegating Registered Practitioner.
- Prepare information packs, making appointments and participating in child health clinics under supervision.
- Give appropriate advice to families regarding childcare e.g. nutrition, sleep problems, and behaviour.
- Follow-up pare
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