Assistant Practitioner
3 days ago
Assistant Practitioner | 9215 | Permanent Contract | 37 hours per week | £31,537 to £33,699 per annum | Grade G | West & Breckland
Our Children with Disabilities service provides support to children and young people with substantial and permanent disabilities 0-18 years of age. We have 3 teams which cover Norfolk and they are multi-disciplinary consisting of social workers, occupational therapists, occupational therapist assistant practitioners and assistant practitioners. We maintain strong links with internal and external partners to ensure a holistic response to the needs of the children and families we are working with.
We are looking for an enthusiastic individual with a passion for working with Children that have additional needs and who are driven to help children to overcome barriers that may be preventing successful engagement within their daily activities. The individual must also be motivated to work directly with children and their families across home and school settings.
The individual would work within a Social Care team alongside Social Workers and Occupational Therapists to develop and deliver intervention plans.
This job requires a creative approach to develop plans appropriate to the child's level of ability and their interests. This job involves some tasks that are physically strenuous such as the moving of therapy equipment and direct therapeutic work with children.
The office base is Elizabeth House but the successful candidate would need to be prepared to travel anywhere within the West and Breckland locality and occasionally beyond this depending on requirements.
Before you apply, we recommend reading the full Job Description and Person Specification to help you demonstrate you meet the criteria.
For an informal discussion regarding this vacancy please contact Emma Riley, Team Manager – or call
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 – dependant 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 also find information on our Terms and Conditions here.
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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: 02 December 2025 at 23:59
All other applicants closing date: 09 December 2025 at 23:59
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