# Enhanced Clinical Practitioner - Swindon## Job Introduction**Package Description**As a **Enhanced Clinical Practitioner**you will be part of our valued team in our **Swindon Intermediate Care Centre (SWICC) Servic**e, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:* **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 every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher 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 – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well 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 where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year* The 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**Job Introduction**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 service’s 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 Responsibilities**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.**A full list of responsibilities can be found in the attached job description.****The Ideal Candidate****Essential*** Current registration with the NMC or HCPC* Recognised teaching or mentorship qualification* Significant proven experience in elderly care, frailty, community services or relevent acute care speciality* 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 of 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 the demands of a constantly changing environment* Good IT skills and knowledge of clinical systems* Significant proven experience of leading and supporting a multidiscliplinary 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**Desirable*** Involvement in relevant clinical interest groups* Experience of clinical audit, research and understanding quality**About the Company**We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.### Enhanced Clinical Practitioner - Swindon* **Salary** £49,387 - £56515 Pro rata* **Frequency** Annual* **Job Reference** HCRGCG/TP/44687/19223* **Contract Type** Permanent - Full Time* **Closing Date** 17 May, 2026* **Job Category** HCRG - Nursing and Midwifery
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