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Enhanced Clinical Practitioner (ECP) - Peasedown
Job Reference HCRGCG/TP/158870/21037
Number of Positions:
1
Contract Type:
Permanent - Full Time
Weekly contracted hours:
37.5
Location:
Peasedown
Closing Date:
06/11/2026
Job Category:
HCRG - Nursing and Midwifery Registered
Service type:
HCRG - Community Services P1
Business Unit:
HCRG - BSW - MIU, Wards & Inpatients
Job Introduction
Delivering Acute Care Closer to Home
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Enhanced Care Practitioner (ECP) to join the Hospital at Home, Virtual Ward Team.
The successful post holder will work within the Step-up Clinical Team, supporting both admission avoidance and early discharge pathways. Patients accessing the service are those who would traditionally require acute hospital care but are able to receive multidisciplinary treatment safely within their own homes.
Based within the Care Coordination Centre and working across Bath and North East Somerset, with occasional support across the wider BSWfootprint, you will contribute to the delivery of high-quality, patient-centred care that promotes recovery, independence, and improved health outcomes.
We are happy to answer any questions that you may have.
Package Description
As an Enhanced ClinicalPractitioner (ECP),you’ll be part of our valued team in Hospital at Home service based across community bases within Swindon or Wiltshire (North, East, South or West).
You will feel valued as an Enhanced ClinicalPractitioner (ECP) within HCRG Care Group, 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 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
Main Duties and Responsibilities
The post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary Hospital at Home service providing urgent clinical assessment, treatment, care coordination, and leadership across community settings.
The role will involve partnership working across primary, community, acute, social care, and urgent care services to facilitate admission avoidance and timely discharge from hospital settings.
Key areas of responsibility include:
- Clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management of patients within the Hospital at Home pathway.
- Coordination of specialist interventions and oversight of the patient journey.
- Caseload management and accountability for clinical decision-making.
- Clinical leadership, supervision, appraisal, and professional development of staff.
- Participation in audit, research, and quality improvement activities.
- Educational support for students and colleagues.
- Contribution to service redesign and pathway development.
- Ensuring practice aligns with governance, patient safety, and evidence-based standards
For a full list of responsibilities please see the attached Job Description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Current registration with the NMC or HCPC
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
- Recognised teaching or mentorship qualification
- Independent Prescribing qualification or currently working towards completion
- Training in clinical supervision and/or leadership
Experience
- Significant experience in elderly care, frailty, community services, or relevant acute care specialties
- Significant assessment experience within urgent and acute care settings
- Experience managing complex patient caseloads
- Experience leading and supporting multidisciplinary community teams
- Experience implementing and managing change
- Experience working within multidisciplinary teams
Knowledge and Skills
- Advanced assessment, diagnostic, and treatment skills
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Sound clinical judgement and analytical ability
- Ability to work autonomously
- Competent use of clinical IT systems
- Ability to respond effectively within changing environments
- Participation in relevant clinical interest groups
- Experience undertaking clinical audit activities
- Research experience
- Knowledge of quality and continuous improvement frameworks
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.
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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