Children and Young Persons Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 11/08/2026
- Closes
- 01/09/2026
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Role summary
Nottingham CityCare is recruiting a Children and Young Persons Practitioner (CYPP) to join their 0-19 Public Health team. This role involves supporting Health Visitors in delivering the Healthy Child Programme in various community settings and clients' homes. The practitioner will support families requiring additional help with areas like sleep, speech, behaviour, continence, and healthy lifestyles. The successful candidate will be confident, have excellent communication skills, and a passion for equality and diversity.
Essential criteria
- An ability to confidently use Microsoft Office programmes, including MS Outlook and MS Word
- Demonstrate evidence of producing care records.
- Evidence of managing confidential and sensitive information
- Good communication and customer service skills
- An ability to plan and organise own workload
- Demonstrate ability to manage own workload and meet tight deadlines.
- Demonstrate ability to use initiative.
- Ability to be flexible over both working hours, and working at other sites, as and when required to meet the needs of the service
- Full driving licence, access to a vehicle and ability to travel between locations.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of using electronic healthcare record keeping systems and of contributing to updating patient records.
- Experience of working in a healthcare, childcare or educational setting with a minimum of 2 year experience.
- Experience of working in a skill mix team with a minimum of 2 year experience.
- Experience of carrying out delegated work independently.
- Experience of working in a primary care setting.
- Educated to NVQ Level 3, or equivalent in a healthcare or childcare related area (to include short courses and relevant experience).
- Educated to Foundation Degree, or equivalent in a healthcare or childcare-related area.
- Skills & Attributes
- An ability to confidently use Microsoft Office programmes, including MS Outlook and MS Word
- Demonstrate evidence of producing care records.
- Evidence of managing confidential and sensitive information
- Good communication and customer service skills
- An ability to plan and organise own workload
- Demonstrate ability to manage own workload and meet tight deadlines.
- Demonstrate ability to use initiative.
- Ability to be flexible over both working hours, and working at other sites, as and when required to meet the needs of the service
- Full driving licence, access to a vehicle and ability to travel between locations.
- Experience of using electronic healthcare record keeping systems and of contributing to updating patient records.
- Experience of working in a healthcare, childcare or educational setting with a minimum of 2 year experience.
- Experience of working in a skill mix team with a minimum of 2 year experience.
- Experience of carrying out delegated work independently.
- Experience of working in a primary care setting.
- Educated to NVQ Level 3, or equivalent in a healthcare or childcare related area (to include short courses and relevant experience).
- Educated to Foundation Degree, or equivalent in a healthcare or childcare-related area.
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.
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Nottingham CityCare Partnership CIC
Children and Young Persons Practitioner
The closing date is 01 September 2026
Job summary
Nottingham CityCare are
excited to announce that we are recruiting to a Children and Young Peoples
Practitioner (CYPP) post within the Mary Potter/central team.
Nottingham CityCare is a
dynamic organisation, commissioned to provide NHS services in the community.
You will be part of our 0-19
Public Health team, working in various community settings and clients homes, supporting
Health Visitors in the delivery of the 0-19 Healthy Child Programme, via our
universal and targeted approaches. We are currently recruiting a
CYPP that is committed to supporting and delivering public health messages to
the families within Nottingham City. You will need to be a confident
practitioner, who has excellent communication skills and a passion to embrace
and support equality and diversity.
To support in post, you will
have access to a plethora of mandatory and role specific training, with
protected time for ongoing professional development. We have a robust
competency package which will ensure you feel confident and competent to
practice without direct supervision.
We also have a
dedicated Safeguarding Service who will provide you with safeguarding advice,
support and supervision. Our supervision package also includes management
supervision and clinical/rest
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