PERMANENT CONTRACT | £16,476 TO £16,768 PER ANNUM (SCALE F/G) | 19 HOURS PER WEEK | COUNTY HALL, NORWICH

This is an exciting opportunity to join our service. The Emergency Duty Team (EDT) is a small bespoke service that responds to emergencies out of hours.
We are looking for an enthusiastic Assistant Practitioner with a proven experience of working within social care. The Assistant Practitioners work over a 6 week rolling rota including weekends, evenings and bank holidays. The role will involve carrying out assessments and care and support planning under the Care Act 2014.
For an informal discussion re this position please contact Janet Melville on 01603 306858 or email janet.melville@norfolk.gov.uk or Jo Felgate on 01603 638216 jo.felgate@norfolk.gov.uk.
We’re looking to appoint either a Supported Assistant Practitioner (Scale F) or an experienced Assistant Practitioner (Scale G) and require a CV and Supporting Statement from you. In this, you should set out how you meet the essential and desirable criteria of each of the roles, so we advise reading the full Job Description and Person Specification for each first before applying:
Supported Assistant Practitioner : Job Description and Person Specification
Assistant Practitioner : Job Description and Person Specification
Our Supported Assistant Practitioners (Scale F) join our 9-month, bespoke support programme ( The Assistant Practitioner Development Programme ), enabling you to progress to an Assistant Practitioner role (Scale G) subject to satisfactory programme completion. You can also find information on our Terms and Conditions here.

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

• Already a Norfolk County Council employee? See and apply for internal and external vacancies in myOracle using your @norfolk.gov.uk or @nccal.ac.uk email.

Please refer the Job description for details