Enhanced Care Practitioner Band 7

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust; England; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust in the United Kingdom seeks a Band 7 Enhanced Care Practitioner to join the SDEC team. You will lead rapid assessment, diagnosis and treatment plans across General Surgery, Vascular, Urology, Gynaecology and Head & Neck, aiming to avoid unnecessary admissions.

The role involves autonomous decision making, with support as needed, and a focus on complex, high-acuity patients within a fast-paced surgical environment.

Qualifications

• Experience as Band 7 Enhanced Care Practitioner (clinical leadership in SDEC).
• Ability to work with minimal supervision and make autonomous complex clinical decisions.

Responsibilities

• Work with minimal supervision, clinically examining and assessing patients and initiating appropriate action for a distinct caseload of highly complex patients.
• Make independent autonomous highly complex clinical decisions across a discrete aspect of patient care in the SDEC service.
• Exercise significant discretion in delivering the role guided by policies to achieve expected results.
• Care for people with highly complex conditions using enhanced assessments, diagnostics, interventions and equipment.
• Holistically assess patients using a range of methods across the specialist service.
• Plan and manage care within current practice level, delegating and referring as appropriate.
• Propose and implement service and policy development informed by best practice and evidence.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Autonomous practice

Decision making

Emergency care

Job description

Are you an experienced, dynamic, and forward-thinking clinician ready to shape the future of emergency surgical care?

We are seeking an exceptional Band 7 Enhanced Care Practitioner to join our fast-paced Surgical Surgical Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) team.

In this role, you will be at the forefront of avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions by providing rapid assessment, diagnosis, and treatment plans for a diverse and complex patient cohort. This is an incredible opportunity to utilize your advanced clinical skills across five distinct surgical specialties: General Surgery, Vascular, Urology, Gynaecology, and Head & Neck.

Interview date: 24th November 2026

Base site: UHD - Royal Bournemouth Hospital

• Work with minimal supervision, clinically examining and assessing patients and initiating any appropriate action for a distinct caseload of highly complex patients.
• Make independent, autonomous highly complex clinical decisions across a discrete aspect of patient care in the SDEC service. May require some supervision and will be expected to obtain support from senior members of staff to make decisions, which may be outside scope of clinical knowledge.
• Exercise significant discretion in the delivery of the role, guided by policies and procedures and implementing appropriate action in order to achieve expected results.
• Care for people with highly complex conditions using existing knowledge and expertise, enhanced clinical assessments, diagnostics, interventions and equipment.
• To work autonomously, using enhanced clinical knowledge and skills, underpinned by theory and experience, to holistically assess patients, using a range of methods across the specialist service.
• To plan and manage care of patients within current level of practice, working in partnership with others, delegating and referring as appropriate, to optimise health outcomes and resource use, as well as providing direct support to patients and carers.
• To propose and implement service and policy development and redesign, impacting beyond own area and other disciplines, informed by current best practice and evidence-base, in accordance with values-based care of the trust.

UHD are investing, developing and transforming Trust services in line with the New Hospital Programme. As part of this, some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or permanently. Recruiting Managers will be happy to answer any service-specific questions at interview.

If a role or service relocates as part of a planned move, excess mileage will not be reimbursed. Travel from home to the new work base will be classed as a normal commute. Any other changes will be managed under Trust or national terms and conditions.

UHD has active networks including Women’s, BAME, Pride, EU, Pro Ability, and Armed Forces. We support Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant interview schemes.

AI tools may be used, but applications must honestly reflect your own skills and experience. Integrity is key to our recruitment process.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: David Wyman Job title: Matron - Surgery Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0300 019 6308