Community Assistant Practitioner

Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust

The closing date is 01 February 2026

The Kings Lynn and Coastal Community Therapy team has an exciting opportunity to recruit a full time Community Assistant Practitioner (37.5 hours per week). The role as an autonomous practitioner involves patient assessment, goal setting, implementation of treatment plans and primary prevention strategies. The team cover a wide variety of conditions within a community setting, a current UK driving licence and access to a vehicle will be essential for this role.

You will need to be able to demonstrate effective communication skills, problem solving skills and be resilient and able to cope in changing and challenging situations. You will work under the direction of our Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists but will also be required to work autonomously. Previous experience of working within a community setting or within a therapy-based team would be desirable.

Patient visits in the in the community may be planned or unplanned depending on the need of the patient. The post covers the King's Lynn and Coastal areas across West Norfolk and your base will be St James Clinic in King's Lynn.

Supervision will be provided by an Occupational Therapist or a Physiotherapist. We offer the opportunity to work in an experienced and supportive team with opportunities for on-going professional development.

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Apply now to join an organisation that has been awarded an 'Outstanding' rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the highest possible rating and the first stand-alone NHS community trust in the country to be awarded the title.

Please note, the selection processes at Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right values and skills, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain watchful of candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn't accurately reflect their skills.

• Assess and treat patients with multiple conditions, sometimes complex in nature.
• Prepare for, carry out and monitor assessments and treatments in specified clinical areas, and discharge in line with predetermined department protocols.
• Modify and progress intervention / treatment using own clinical reasoning, notifying a qualified practitioner accordingly.
• Monitor patients and promptly alert a qualified practitioner when there are unexpected changes.
• Demonstrate problem solving, and contribute to the solution, working with colleagues.
• Make clinical judgements on patients response to prescribed treatment, making adjustments as required, and report findings to a qualified practitioner.
• Plan and prioritise own visits to patients and document on Systm One ledger.
• Ensuring the outcome of patient visits are documented in Systm One record within 24 hours of visit.
• Be flexible to accommodate admission avoidance patients.

• NVQ 3, or equivalent knowledge and experience
• Foundation degree programme, or equivalent demonstrable knowledge and skills acquired through training and experience
• Experience of working in a health or social care setting

• Experience of working with people, in the statutory/voluntary/private sector.
• Experience of working with people at the End of life
• Evidence of ongoing learning
• Experience of working in people's homes.

• Knowledge of additional specialist areas through in-house training & short courses
• Highly motivated
• Knowledge of multi-disciplinary team roles.
• Experience of working in a community setting.

• Tact & diplomacy
• Empathy & sensitivity
• Ability to use own initiative
• Able to communicate effectively using the English language in both verbal and written forms

• Ability to manage stressful situations
• A team player
• Awareness of own limitations
• Good organisational skills
• Open to change and development

• Able to identify with the Trust's…