Vacancies

Band 7 Enhanced Clinical Practitioner

Main Responsibility

As Band 7 Enhanced Clinical Practitioner you’ll: 

The post holder will be able to combine high level assessment to establish differential diagnosis and 

clinical decisions to initiate medical and/or nursing/therapy treatments, appropriately refer and lead 

the co-ordination of care from an integrated team perspective, working with partner agencies and key 

stake holders. 

• To be a key driver for change to assist integrated care pathways/systems across HCRG services and 

system partners. 

• To provide clinical and professional leadership within the acute care @home service supporting the 

wider community including Primary Care, Social Care, and all other provider organisations to deliver 

high standards of care to patients. Where appropriate this will be the avoidance of unnecessary 

admission to secondary care. To be an integral member of the multidisciplinary team working with a 

shared vision in partnership with each other.

• Draw on clinical knowledge to be a resource for the wider multidisciplinary team (MDT) and give 

clinical advice. 

• To work in alignment with Primary care around established practice populations and to facilitate the 

establishment of a shared vision between Primary care and the Community teams. 

• Following annotation on the NMC register as an independent prescriber, work towards fulfilling the 

criteria to become initially a designated prescribing supervisor and subsequently a designated 

prescribing assessor.

A full list of responsibilities can be found in the attached job description. 

The Ideal Candidate

Essential:

• Registered nurse 

• Non -Medical Prescribing qualification (V300) or equivalent validated and accredited by NMC.

• Qualified to master’s level or working towards the following Modules: 

• Physical assessment and Clinical reasoning (PACR or equivalent) 

• Frailty, Long term conditions or additional 

• Module

• Evidence of relevant up to date CPD

• Experience at senior level working in relevant field. 

• Confident to undertake home visiting to assess and treat patients. 

• Demonstrate clinical examination and assessment skills e.g. history taking, physical assessment. 

• Significant experience of working with a multidisciplinary team Leadership experience 

• Setting and monitoring standards of care Experience within a wide range of patient/client care groups 

• Effective networking with colleagues at all levels, experience or working across professional and 

• organisational boundaries Community services experience 

• To be able to communicate with people from a wide range of backgrounds. 

• To be able to work flexibly and sensitively. 

• Wide range of interpersonal and communication skills 

• Advocate to service users 

• I.T. literate 

• Undertake specific nursing tasks requiring precision and/or intense concentration. 

• Undertaking complex nursing skills 

Please see the attached Job description for the full list.

Package Description

As a Band 7 Enhanced Clinical Practitioner, you’ll be part of our valued team at The Orbital, Swindon.

You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

• AFC Band 7 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions (Salary within banding, discussed and agreed based on previous salary with evidence provided)
• Plentiful on site-parking
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday 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 a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
• Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location

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.

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