Community Specialist Practitioner - Long Term Conditions

Sirona Care & Health; Worle; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Community Specialist Practitioner for Long Term Conditions. This role focuses on managing individuals with complex health needs and requires advanced clinical skills. The position offers a supportive work environment, full NHS benefits, and opportunities for professional development. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in case management and clinical leadership.

Benefits

NHS benefits

27+ days’ annual leave

Participation in the NHS Pension Scheme

Qualifications

• Advanced clinical skills and case management techniques.
• Experience in clinical leadership and decision making.
• Ability to work autonomously within a healthcare team.

Responsibilities

• Identifying and managing individuals with complex health needs.
• Improving quality of life for patients in the community.
• Providing clinical leadership and cross-covering teams as needed.

Job description

Community Specialist Practitioner – Long Term Conditions

COMMUNITY SPECIALIST PRACTITIONER – Long Term Conditions are experienced, specialist clinicians with advanced clinical skills, case management techniques and shared decision-making. They support people meeting criteria that denote very high intensity use of health care services. With specialist intensive support, these service users are able to remain safely at home and have more choice about their health care.

Team Composition

• Community Specialist Practitioners Urgent and Long‑term Conditions
• Community Nurses
• Community Therapists
• Paramedics
• Community Support Workers
• Administrators

Role Overview

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 and decision making and managerial experience. Your responsibilities will include:

• Identifying and case managing individuals with highly complex needs who require intensive community support.
• Working autonomously as a specialist practitioner within your Primary Care Network (PCN) in partnership with the Integrated Network Team (INT) and the primary care team to prevent avoidable admissions and facilitate timely discharges from hospital into the community setting.
• Improving quality of life for patients wherever possible.
• Providing clinical leadership and direction to the INT, supporting the Locality Manager and Assistant Locality Manager to deliver evidence‑based clinical outcomes.
• Cross‑covering other teams or services within the locality and across Sirona services when necessary to maintain organisational and service resilience.

Our INTs deliver out‑of‑hospital care to people in their own homes or community clinics. The INTs within the Weston Worle and Villages locality provide these services to people registered with a GP within this area of North Somerset.

Benefits

Agenda for Change Salary, full NHS benefits, 27+ days’ annual leave, and participation in the NHS Pension Scheme – just a glimpse of the benefits you'll receive.

Community Focus and Diversity

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.

Whether you're starting your journey in healthcare, looking for a fresh challenge within the NHS, or contemplating a career change, don't be daunted by the prospect of something different – we create development opportunities for all our colleagues and apprentices.

Application

Interested? View our benefits leaflet which you can find attached to this vacancy.