About this role

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a part-time Assistant Practitioner to join the Northern Mental Health Social Care Team. In this permanent role, you will support people across North Norfolk and contribute to the Mental Health Duty Team.

You will play a key role in delivering Community-Led Support (CLS) within Adult Mental Health Social Care. You will work alongside individuals, families, communities and partner agencies to promote independence, recovery, wellbeing and social inclusion through relationship-based practice.

You will focus on preventing, reducing and delaying the need for formal care and support by working creatively with people, recognising strengths, building community connections and supporting access to local assets and opportunities. You will develop meaningful relationships with individuals experiencing mental health challenges and support them to achieve outcomes that matter to them.

You will be joining a passionate, forward thinking, supportive and high performing team of Social Workers, Assistant Practitioners, Living Well Officers and Local Area Coordinators. You may be required to undertake Care Act Assessments, Support Planning and Reviews whilst working collaboratively with partners including Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust and various stakeholders.

You will need to have knowledge and a level of experience of the Care Act (2014), Mental Capacity Act (2005) Mental Health Act (1983) and Safeguarding vulnerable adults, as well as excellent time management and IT skills. All new staff are supported to develop a thorough working knowledge of Norfolk County Council processes and procedures.

We operate a hybrid model of working, which includes working from home, our office base at Hellesdon Hospital. There are also opportunities to work from other Norfolk County Council bases as well as other Community spaces.

Adult Social Services in Norfolk is on an ambitious, exciting transformation journey. We're redesigning how we work to create a system that is flexible, human, and focused on better outcomes. As part of this journey, you'll contribute to an environment where learning is continuous, insight is shared, and innovation is encouraged. We support flexible and hybrid working, with a minimum expectation of two days per week spent in a community or office setting, helping you stay connected with colleagues, communities and the people we support.

If you are interested in this opportunity and have further questions, please don't hesitate to contact Leigh Heyes, Team Manager or Samantha Unsworth, Practice Consultant, via 01603 217644 or email [email protected] or [email protected]

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 your application, 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 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.

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 – dependent on your job role and business need.
- Financial benefits such as: ‘ Norfolk Rewards’ (https://norfolk.rewardgateway.co.uk/Authentication/Start) 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 (https://www.bluelightcard.co.uk/) 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 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: 21 October 2026

All other applicants closing date: 28 October 2026