Consultant Practitioner/Foundation Consultant Practitioner for Frailty

We have expanded our award-winning Urgent Community Response and Hospital at Home Virtual Ward services across Mid and North Hampshire and are seeking experienced Consultant Practitioner or Foundation Consultant Practitioner to join our team.

This is a specialist role for advanced clinical professionals with a strong background in frailty. Whether your experience lies in Hospital at Home, acute frailty care, emergency settings or community urgent response, you will bring clinical expertise, leadership and a proven ability to manage complex care with confidence. The role is offered at Band 8C, though we also welcome those who meet most of the criteria and would benefit from structured development through our Foundation Pathway at an 8b level.

You will be part of one of the most advanced Consultant Practitioner networks in the country. Our Trust is nationally recognised for its commitment to multi-professional advanced practice, supported by a strong strategic framework, a well-connected peer community and close collaboration with NHS England, regularly contributing to national pilots and helping to inform best practice.

This is a role with real impact. You will lead complex clinical decision-making, contribute to service development, support learning across the system and champion innovation. Most importantly, you will help deliver person-centred care that transforms lives. If you are ready to use your expertise to make a meaningful difference, we would love to hear from you.

Job description

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.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• * Professional UK registration e.g. NMC / HCPC with evidence of sufficient experience to meet the requirements of the Job Description
• * Advanced Clinical Practice Master's degree OR a health related master's degree AND evidence of equivalence of Advanced Level practice capabilities via the portfolio route.
• * Independent non-medical prescribing or pharmacology level 7 profession relevant qualification
• * Management qualification or significant senior management experience in a healthcare setting.
• * Evidence of significant professional and managerial development, including a comprehensive and relevant CPD portfolio.
• * Evidence of working at academic level 8 and or through competency-based assessment of application of level 8 working.
• * Teaching Experience/Qualification
• * Able to demonstrate a good command of the English Language both written and verbal
• * Computer Literate in both data entry and communicating via IT - emails and reports

About the employer

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