Clinical Practitioner: Sponsorship Available

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Band 6 practitioners to work within our established Urgent Community Response Team in West Essex.

The teams assess and manage acutely unwell patients at home using a variety of pathways including respiratory, heart failure and frailty, to prevent unnecessary admissions to hospital.

This includes the utilisation of remote technology and new ways of working to provide a safe alternative to hospital admission and support people to be discharged from hospital earlier than may have been possible previously. The focus of this role is delivering high quality care in the community, holistic assessments, planning, implementing, and reviewing care provision across the Hospital at Home and UCRT pathways of care. This is an exciting opportunity to shape services that will improve the experience of healthcare for the population of West Essex and deliver an NHS national priority.

We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join the team with a range of skills and clinical expertise. You need to be flexible, hardworking, have excellent communication skills and appreciate the need for professional development within your practice to ensure we establish a responsive and effective team.

Main duties of the job

• Responsible for prioritising and planning own workload on a day-to-day basis with some direction.
• To use advanced knowledge and skills in order to manage patients care as an autonomous practitioner; without direct supervision, drawing on advanced theoretical and practical experience.
• Negotiate, agree expectations, and set appropriate realistic and individual goals in partnership with the patient, carer and colleagues
• Ensure that assessments, programmes of care, and evaluations related to patients being accepted and onboarded onto the service pathways comply with the Trust’s agreed clinical standards.
• Ensure provision of holistic and rapid assessment of patients referred in a timely manner to support early discharge from the acute hospital provision.
• Provide home visits and deliver programmes of care according to clinical need within agreed protocols after escalation and discussion at MDT meetings.
• Facilitate safe and timely discharge from the service including generation of a discharge summary to GPs.

Person Specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential

• NMC registration or AHP registration
• Car Driver

Clinical Experience

Essential

• Demonstrates evidence based clinical knowledge
• Has substantial post registration experience including work within chosen speciality

Desirable

• Clinical experience in Community Care

Communication Skills

Essential

• Have knowledge of current professional matters in relation to the NHS.
• Ability to communicate effectively with patients from varied social and cultural backgrounds.
• Communicates succinctly, clearly and accurately both verbally and in writing
• High standards of written/computer skills.

Desirable

• SystmOne experience or similar electronic patient record systems

Other requirements

Essential

• Willingness to uphold the Trust’s and provider’s values
• Eligible to live and work in the UK.
• Be an effective team member who is able to relate to colleagues at all levels of the Trust with tact and diplomacy
• Possesses a valid UK driving license and access to a vehicle for work purposes

Closing Date: 13 September 2026