Enhanced Clinical Practitioner - Swindon
We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Enhanced Clinical Practitioner, you will join our Hospital at Home team as an Enhanced Care Practitioner (ECP), based at Swindon Integrated Care Centre (SwICC) and delivering care within patients homes across Swindon. There may also be opportunities to work across the wider BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) footprint as part of the services integrated approach.
As an ECP, you will be a key member of the Step up Clinical Team, with a primary focus on preventing avoidable hospital admissions and supporting early discharge from acute settings. Patients cared for by the Hospital at Home service are those who would traditionally require inpatient hospital care but are instead supported through acute, multidisciplinary treatment in the comfort of their own homes.
You will be joining a team of innovative, forward thinking, and compassionate professionals who are deeply committed to improving outcomes for the local community. Colleagues work collaboratively and consistently go above and beyond to ensure patients receive safe, high quality, and person centred care.
Main duties of the job
As an Enhanced Care Practitioner (ECP), you will work closely within a multidisciplinary Hospital at Home team, building strong relationships with colleagues across Care Coordination, Therapies, Nursing, and partner teams throughout the BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) locality. You will contribute to the ongoing development of patient pathways, ensuring care is well coordinated from referral through to discharge.
You will provide clinical leadership and hands on support for the assessment, management, and treatment of patients in community settings, with a particular focus on Urgent Community Response (UCR) referrals. Working closely with Single Points of Access (SPA) and wider system partners, you will help reduce unnecessary hospital admissions and support timely discharge by making best use of Hospital at Home capacity.
You will take responsibility for the Hospital at Home clinical caseload, coordinating specialist, person centred care across primary, secondary, acute, and social care. Alongside your clinical role, you will support colleagues through supervision, development, and collaborative working, acting as a positive role model for safe and effective practice.
You will also contribute to service development through audit, learning, and reflective practice, supporting continuous improvement and a positive learning environment for colleagues and students.
Job responsibilities
* Band 7 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
* Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases and offers for treats for you and those special to you
* Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
* Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing, including healthy recipes, activity challenges, post-trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, and career coaching and counselling
* Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding Learning and Development team, The Learning Enterprise
* An open, just culture encouraging ideas to deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care, backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
* Pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards, with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
The Ideal Candidate
* Current registration with the NMC or HCPC
* Recognised teaching or mentorship qualification
* Significant proven experience in elderly care, frailty, community services or relevant acute care specialty
* Significant proven assessment experience in urgent/acute care/accredited advanced clinical assessment qualification
* Clinical and technical skills in managing a range of clinical conditions
* Proven skills in managing complex patient/service user caseloads
* Experience working as part of a multidisciplinary team
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Self-motivated and flexible with ability to work autonomously with minimal supervision
* Strong judgement and analytical skills, with the ability to interpret complex situations and make appropriate decisions
* Ability to adapt to a constantly changing environment
* Good IT skills and knowledge of clinical systems
* Significant proven experience of leading and supporting a multidisciplinary community team
* Training in clinical supervision and/or leadership skills
* Experience in implementing change
* Educated to degree level or equivalent in experience/knowledge
* Current Independent prescribing qualification (or working towards) with proven experience in supporting prescribing/treating frail older adults
* Clean driving licence, car driver, access to a vehicle for daily use
* Involvement in relevant clinical interest groups
* Experience of clinical audit, research and understanding quality
General Requirements
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We are a Disability Confident and Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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