Community Specialist Practitioner – Long Term Conditions

Main area: Community Specialist Practitioner

Grade: Band 7

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (The service is 08.00-20.00 seven days a week and you will be rostered so that the team can cover these hours.)

Employer: Sirona care & health CIC

Site: Warmley Town, Warmley

Salary: £49,387 - £56,515 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing date: 13/08/2026 08:00

Job overview: Our Integrated Neighbourhood Teams within South Glos (INTs) deliver out of hospital care to people in their own homes or community clinics within the area. Community Specialist Practitioners – Long Term Conditions (CSP-LTCs) are experienced, specialist clinicians with advanced clinical skills, case management techniques and a background in shared decision-making. They support people who are high intensity users of health care services. With this specialist intensive support, these service users are able to remain safely at home and have more choice about their health care. Case management is key for the support of people with long term conditions. This role requires expert evidence based practitioner knowledge gained from extensive front line, clinical leadership, decision making and managerial experience.

Main duties of the job: The purpose of this role is to work autonomously as a specialist practitioner to identify and case manage individuals with highly complex needs who require intensive and community support. You will work with their Primary Care Network (PCN) in partnership with the Integrated Neighbourhood Team (INT) and the primary care team to prevent avoidable admissions and facilitate timely discharges from hospital into the community setting and, where possible, improve their quality of life. As an experienced practitioner you will provide a service that focuses on achieving and demonstrating overall improvements in health care for people who are frail and have several long-term conditions. You will also provide clinical leadership and direction to the INT, supporting the Locality Manager and Assistant Locality Manager to deliver excellent evidence based clinical outcomes. To provide organisational and service resilience, you may be expected to cross cover other teams or services, both within the locality and across Sirona services.

Working for our organisation: We are Sirona care & health – England’s largest provider of Adult’s and Children’s Community Services. We welcome and encourage all applicants. We are committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities we support and are proactively seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce. We know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We aim to draw upon the widest possible range of views and experiences to meet the changing needs of our colleagues, partners and communities we serve.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities: Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities before applying for this position.

Person specification:

• Qualifications: Current registration with NMC / HCPC or other relevant professional body of registration.
• Successful completion of a relevant post-graduate L3 (or higher) course or appropriate equivalent modules, such as disease specific qualifications, physical assessment and clinical reasoning.
• Evidence of continuous personal and professional development and ability to study at Masters level.
• Willingness to undertake training required for the role.
• Masters level clinical qualification or working towards achieving this.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience:

• Coaching / Teaching and Assessing qualification / experience.
• Knowledge of local, national, strategic and operational policy developments and an awareness of their implications.
• Understanding of the primary care, secondary care and provider interface.
• Knowledge of legal issues relating to the care of people such as Data Protection Act, Adult Protection procedures and the Mental Capacity Act.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.