East Coast Community Healthcare CIC

Assistant Practitioner - Falls and Frailty

The closing date is 13 April 2026

Job summary

Are you motivated to be involved with the development and delivery of the Falls and Frailty Prevention Team in Great Yarmouth and Waveney?

Do you have the PASSION, DRIVE AND ABILITY to deliver high quality compassionate care?

If the answer is yes please read on and feel free to contact us for further information.

The Falls and Frailty Prevention Team works across the Great Yarmouth and Waveney area supporting service users registered with a Great Yarmouth and Waveney GP. The Falls and Frailty Prevention Team works Monday to Friday 08.30 to 16.30 and consists of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Assistant Practitioners working together with the Primary Care Home teams in provision of the service.

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Assistant Practitioner to join the team based at Yare House, Great Yarmouth. The role consists of a range of office and mobile working. ECCH have electronic patient records and there is an expectation that you will be a mobile worker using a laptop, you will receive support and training to enable you to use this functionality. Full in house and competence based training will be provided for you to fulfill your role.

This role offers opportunity for independent and team working utilizing skills and knowledge to support patients who have experienced a fall and are living with frailty. Working together we aim to achieve patient specific goals, maintain a level of independence and to prevent unnecessary admission to hospital.

The team accepts referrals from Primary Care, Secondary Care, Ambulance service and community colleagues for patients who have fallen or are identified as at risk of falling due to frailty.

The Team will endeavour to advise patients, relatives and carers on how best to assist patients to remain well and manage their everyday living to maximise independence and whenever possible to remain at home. Our holistic assessments include reviewing the home environment and identifying factors which may contribute to falls, where able mitigating the risk and enabling patients to remain safely in their place of residence.

About us

ECCH is well established health care provider and has been successfully delivering NHS care within the community since 2011. We provide a range of NHS, community health and social care services predominantly across the easterly region of the Norfolk/Suffolk borders.We are aligned to NHS terms and conditions, and offer many employee benefits, to find out more about us visit our website - www.ecch.org. We are a social enterprise and staff owned organisation which means staff can opt to be shareholders and have a real say in how ECCH is run and evolves to deliver healthcare for the future.At the heart of our ambition, we work in partnership with and for the community to become the provider and employer of choice for community healthcare.

Date posted

30 March 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£27,485 to £30,162 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

849-OL-24

Job locations

Yare House

Morton Peto Road

Great Yarmouth

Norfolk

NR31 0LT

Job description

Job responsibilities

Principal Responsibilities:

*To promote people's equality, diversity and rights.

*To assist clinician in the management and treatment of clients autonomously with supervision available from registered staff. Duties may include:

*Undertaking a multi factorial assessment and treatment planning.

*Assessing performance of activities of daily living.

*Identify, prescribe and demonstrate use of basic equipment.

*Identify, prescribe and demonstrate use of walking aids.

*Manage own caseload of non-complex patients.

*Discharging patients from the service.

*Direct assistance to registered staff with more complex patients.

*To write clinical notes in a concise, accurate and timely manner in line with East Coast Community Healthcare's record keeping policy.

*To independently carry out specified assessment and treatment activities and programmes as planned and discussed with clinicians. and

*Use own initiative and experience to modify treatment plans according to the patient's condition.

*To contribute to the care of all patients, ensuring safety and dignity at all times.

*To liaise as appropriate with members of the multidisciplinary and wider multi-agency team.

*To liaise as appropriate with carers and other health, social or voluntary agencies.

*To communicate effectively with patients and carers. Communication skills of persuasion, negotiation, motivation, empathy and explanation will be required to enable the management of potential barriers to communication.

Duties and Responsibilities

*Duties will include working alone in a variety of settings, reviewing patients independently and taking responsibility for ongoing management at each visit, at times dealing with challenging circumstances.

*Undertaking independent decision making regarding ongoing treatment and in emergency situations where immediate contact with a registered member of staff is not possible.

*Working across professional groups of physiotherapy, occupational therapy and nursing to develop and maintain relevant knowledge and skills.

*To implement mobilization and exercise programs in patients own home and in group situations.

*To provide support and guidance to new members of staff and to junior colleagues.

*To actively be involved within audits and data collection within the service.

*To take individual responsibility for any health and safety issues and undertake obligations under the \health and safety act.

*To take individual responsibility to report incidents as well as any identified actual or potential risks either to you or the organisation or others.

*To attend relevant training course that the service feels is suitable for job role.

*To participate in staff and service development through attendance at service meetings and in service training.

*Actively participate in annual performance reviews providing evidence of attaining the relevant knowledge and skills required for the job.

*All roles within East Coast Community Healthcare CIC (ECCH) require staff to demonstrate our Values and Signature Behaviours in the care and service they provide to patients, service users, stakeholders and colleagues. All members of staff should consider these as an essential part of their job role.

*Our Values outline the core behaviours that we can all achieve and are summarised as an acronym within the word 'CARE'. These stand for: Compassion, Action, Respect and Everyone.

*Underpinning our Values are our Signature Behaviours which highlight by taking the right actions we continue to build a strong culture. Our four Signature Behaviours are: Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together.