Extended Clinical Practitioner

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 01 February 2026

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional to join our Frailty Urgent Community Response/Hospital at Home Team within Hampshire and Isle of Wight NHS Foundation Trust. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a nationally recognised service delivering urgent, holistic care to people living with frailty in their own homes.

• Provide advanced clinical assessment, diagnostics, and complex care planning for patients
• Work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver person-centred care
• Prevent unnecessary hospital admissions through timely interventions and support

• Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional with current UK registration
• Ideally qualified in Non-Medical Prescribing, Clinical History Taking, Physical Examination, and Diagnostics & Decision Making
• Excellent clinical leadership and decision‑making skills
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle

• You will be based in one of our 4 locations with the expectation that you will travel across the area covered

Only open to applicants from Hampshire & Isle of Wight NHS system, which is limited to:
Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Healthcare FT, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, University Hospital Southampton FT, South Central Ambulance Service, Isle of Wight NHS FT or Hampshire Hospitals FT.

Maintaining and continuously updating their existing knowledge, skills and expertise to inform their enhanced clinical judgement

Use existing knowledge and expertise and enhanced levels of clinical judgement to independently undertake complex and holistic assessments

Critically evaluating and analysing complex clinical interventions to make evidence-based decisions on how to manage the delivery of complex clinical care for a defined population, which may include individuals from diverse cultural, social and belief systems. They often manage a caseload, sometimes providing interventions as part of a dedicated clinical pathway.

Caring for people with complex care needs using their existing knowledge and expertise, enhanced clinical assessments, diagnostics, interventions and equipment. They must have the confidence and ability to think critically, and to apply a depth of knowledge and highly developed skills to provide enhanced evidence-based care

Working as part of a wider health and care team whilst being able to work alone when seeing people in their own homes in the community or in a clinical facility. They provide complex clinical care in the context of continual change, challenging environments, different models of care delivery, an older and more diverse population, vulnerable children and young people, mental health needs and innovation and rapidly evolving technologies.

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

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.

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