Neighbourhood Care Clinician

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Neighbourhood Care Clinician

The closing date is 09 February 2026

Join a new innovative community health team delivering proactive, person-centred care across Southampton neighbourhoods. As a Neighbourhood Care Practitioner, you will work at the intersection of primary care, social support, and community services to prevent hospital admissions, support independent living, and improve wellbeing for people in their homes and local settings. This is a hands-on, autonomous role with strong clinical collaboration and opportunities to shape service design.

Posts available:
Three full-time posts, one in each of the three localities across Southampton with cross cover when applicable.

Contract:

Fixed 12-month contract with the possibility of extension following evaluation.

Hours are full-time, flexible working patterns considered.

Shift Type Monday to Friday within core hours

The Neighbourhood Care Clinician role will work with Primary Care Network (PCNs) practices to proactively manage patients living with frailty and other long-term conditions. In conjunction with the wider health, social and voluntary care workforce this role will lead and facilitate patient centred coordinated case management approach across primary, community and secondary care for people who are most vulnerable to and at high risk of admission to hospital.

Working autonomously to a high standard of clinical care, the clinician will be responsible for liaising with the PCNs to identify patients living with frailty who would benefit from an intervention to either prevent further deterioration of their frailty or other long-term conditions and to prevent hospital admission.

Using the medical model to assess, diagnose and prescribe for acute medical conditions, the clinician will use a holistic approach to consider methods and interventions to prevent recurrence of problems and complete referrals to appropriate members of the wider multidisciplinary team.

Following clinical assessment using comprehensive geriatric assessment either in the patients home or clinic environment, multi-disciplinary patient pathways will be designed to support patient choice, improve quality of life, promote self-management and assure early intervention through proactive provision of care in or close to the patients own home as possible.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person s care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Job responsibilities (continued):
This section reiterates that further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust s Recruitment team - detailed in the advert.

The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

• Educated to degree level in chosen profession.
• BSc Nursing or RN currently registered with NMC.
• BSc Occupational Therapy
• BSc Physiotherapy
• Post registration degree or master's degree
• History taking and physical assessment course
• Independent and supplementary prescribing course or is willing to undertake within first year in post if applicable.