Job overview
Are you a skilled and motivated clinical practitioner ready to take your expertise to the next level? Join us as a Senior Clinical Practitioner within the dynamic Transfer of Care Hub, where you’ll lead the way in transforming patient care across Buckinghamshire. This Band 7 role offers a unique blend of advanced clinical practice and system-wide coordination, placing you at the heart of ensuring safe, timely, and person-centred transitions from hospital to home and community settings.
In this pivotal position, you will lead the triage of complex discharge referrals, perform advanced patient assessments, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and key partners—including voluntary organisations like Age UK and external care agencies—to design and deliver seamless care pathways. Your strategic problem-solving and clinical leadership will be vital in overcoming discharge challenges and championing best practices that promote patient independence and dignity.
If you’re passionate about making a real difference in patient outcomes and eager to work in a role that combines clinical excellence with impactful system leadership, this is the perfect opportunity for you.
Main duties of the job
This is a dynamic, multifaceted Band 7 role combining advanced clinical expertise with system-wide patient and flow coordination. The Senior Clinical Practitioner will support the safe, timely, and person-centred transfer of care across Buckinghamshire, including both acute and out-of-area settings. The role provides operational oversight to complex discharges, ensuring robust triaging of referrals through strong multidisciplinary team (MDT) collaboration and engagement with VCSEs and external agencies like Age UK and Onward Care.
Working across the Transfer of Care Hub, the post holder will provide senior clinical leadership in triaging complex discharge referrals, undertaking advanced assessments of patient needs, and coordinating appropriate care pathways. The role requires high-level decision-making, strategic problem-solving to overcome discharge barriers, and effective collaboration with multidisciplinary teams and external partners. With a strong focus on promoting safe, timely, and person-centred transitions of care, the post holder will support service development and champion best practice to uphold patient independence and dignity.
Working for our organisation
Why colleagues think we are
What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
Alongside NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme, you'll have access to NHS discount schemes.
We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
What do we stand for?
Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
We are working hard to increase diversity at all levels within the trust. We believe a diverse workforce can have a positive effect on both staff wellbeing and patient outcomes.
We welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, candidates with disabilities and care-experienced candidates.
We make employment decisions by matching our service needs with the skills and experience of candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.
Person specification
Education, Qualifications & Training
Essential criteria
1. Current registration with HCPC/NMC/SWE.
2. Recognised qualification in Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy/Nursing/Social Work.
3. Able to evidence CPD, in line with regulatory body standards.
Desirable criteria
4. Master’s degree in related field.
5. Clinical educator course/Practice educator course
6. Training/Formal Courses in courses appropriate to post (e.g. Continuing Healthcare)
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
7. At least 3 – 4 years’ experience in a clinical/frontline environment (Band 6 or equivalent)
8. Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development, and reflective practice
9. Experience of working in hospital discharge/discharge planning/discharge pathways Provides senior clinical leadership in triaging complex discharge referrals, assessing patient needs, and coordinating safe, person-centred care transitions across teams and services.
SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
10. Effective partnership working with health and social care colleagues.
11. Proven ability to use a variety of IT programmes and databases.
12. Comprehensive knowledge of discharge processes and pathways in Health & Social Care
13. Demonstrate skills in analysing complex patient needs, reviewing referrals accurately, and coordinating effective discharge plans to ensure seamless continuity of care. Knowledge of legislation relevant to post (Care Act, Mental Capacity Act, Health and Safety, Data Protection)
.SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
Essential criteria
14. To demonstrate appropriate level of assertiveness
15. Self-Motivated
16. Willingness to work flexibly across locations.
17. Ability to work flexibly (weekends/bank holidays)
PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.
COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.
Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight, however if we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before the advertised date.
Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records (ESR) system.
Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.
Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interviews will not be reimbursed.
Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.
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