Associate Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 16/09/2026
- Closes
- 22/09/2026
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
Join the new Interim Care and Support Team (ICAST) as an Associate Practitioner, supporting patients in their homes. You will assess care needs, write support plans, and deliver hands-on care, empowering patients towards independence. This role involves line managing junior staff and requires a vehicle for community-based work, covering a seven-day roster.
Key responsibilities
- Assess patients' care needs and write care and support plans, championing a strengths-based approach.
- Empower patients to be as independent as possible and build on their existing support networks.
- Deliver hands-on care to patients, ensuring the highest quality of care.
- Line manage junior staff members, including their development and managing HR issues.
- Ensure a high quality of service delivery by junior staff.
- Have a vehicle for use for work purposes with business insurance and work as part of a rota covering 08:00-20:00, 7 days a week.
Essential criteria
- Foundation degree, NVQ Level 5 or evidence of working towards one of these qualifications, relevant to this role
- Previous experience as an HCA, Community Support Worker or Therapy Assistant
- Previous experience undertaking patient assessments.
- Good communication skills to include concise and effective verbal and written reports
- Ability to follow clear instructions and feedback to senior staff
- Able to work with minimal supervision
- Previous experience undertaking assessments and rehab
- Able to motivate people and monitor progress
- Ability to cope with and analyse changing situations
- Prioritisation skills
- Confident computer skills with word and patient record systems
Desirable criteria
- Community experience
- Teaching skills
- Knowledge of risk assessment
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 4 at £26,530 – £29,114 a year, across England.
This advert: £17,887 – £19,629 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Associate Practitioner
The closing date is 22 September 2026
Job summary
The Interim Care and Support Team (ICAST) is a brand new team being developed by the Trust to support patients in their own homes before their care package can start.
We are searching for a number of Associate Practitioners to join our team as some of the first members of the team. With a minimum of L5 qualification in a relevant subject and recent relevant practical, hands on experience, you will be supporting not only patients, but also the leadership and development of the team.
In return for your dedication and support to the team and your patients, we will support you with ongoing training and professional development. You will receive regular 1:1 supervisions and annual appraisals. We pride ourselves on "growing our own" and as part of the wider Intermediate Care service, you will have opportunities to trial different teams and roles as appropriate as well as access training opportunities both internally and externally.
You will also be responsible for line managing junior staff members, including their development, managing HR issues if and when they arise and ensuring a high quality of service delivery by them.
As a community-based role, it is essential you have access to a vehicle for work purposes, including business insurance and a valid license.
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