Extended Clinical Practitioner

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Gosport; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Extended Clinical Practitioner to join The Willow Group in Gosport. The post involves autonomous practice, running own clinics, and leading a primary care team to deliver innovative GP services across local sites.

The role requires clinical leadership, strong communication, and the ability to develop new approaches to improve patient care within primary care settings.

Qualifications

• Registration with NMC or HCPC.
• Degree level qualification.
• Non-medical prescribing or level 7 relevant qualification.
• Level 7 History Taking & Physical Examination.
• Level 7 Diagnostics and Decision making.
• Good command of English (written and spoken).
• IT/data entry and reporting competence.

Responsibilities

• Provide initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of care.
• Prescribe for acute medical conditions and complete referrals to the wider multidisciplinary team.
• Contribute to multidisciplinary pathways to support patient choice, quality of life and self-management.
• Provide strong leadership to the team and foster a well-led culture.

Skills

Clinical skills

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Education

Degree level award

NMC/HCPC registration

Independent non-medical prescribing (level 7)

Level 7 Clinical History Taking

Level 7 Diagnostics and Decision making

English language proficiency

Computer literacy

Job description

Go back Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Extended Clinical Practitioner

The closing date is 30 September 2026

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Extended Clinical Practitioner to join to The Willow Group, a forward thinking and innovative GP group providing primary care services for 49,000 patients over 5 local sites in Gosport.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, caring and motivated professional with excellent clinical, organisational & communication skills, who has the ability to work autonomously.

The post holder will be an experienced nurse/AHP, acting within their professional boundaries, to support our on-going initiatives. The post holder will also hold their own clinics and demonstrate critical thinking in the clinical decision-making process. They will work collaboratively with the general practice team and extended primary care team to meet the needs of patients, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures, and providing nurse leadership. They will look to develop new and innovative concepts, models, methods and practices to deliver new and improved primary care services to meet the needs of the practice population.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is an experienced clinician who aspires to provide a responsive, safe, effective and caring service to patients requires initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of care. They will demonstrate safe, clinic decision making and expert care, including assessment and diagnostic skills, for patients within the general practice.

Along with using a medical model to assess, diagnose and prescribe for acute medical conditions, the clinician will use a holistic approach to consider methods and interventions to prevent recurrence of problems and complete referrals to appropriate members of the wider multidisciplinary team.

The clinician will participate in, and influence efforts, across health and social services to shape multi-disciplinary pathways designed to support patient choice, improve quality of life, promote self-management and assure early intervention through proactive provision of care in or as close to the patients' own home as possible.

The role will include the provision of strong leadership to the team, including day to day leadership responsibilities, development and creative leadership, responsive leadership, enabling the team to achieve a 'well led' culture.

About us

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

Job responsibilities

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.

Qualifications

• Appropriate professional qualification (nursing or allied health professional) that allows registration with the NMC or HCPC
• Professional UK registration e.g. NMC / HCPC
• Degree level award
• Independent non-medical prescribing or pharmacology level 7 profession relevant qualification.
• Holds level 7 Clinical History Taking & Physical Examination
• Holds level 7 Diagnostics and Decision making
• 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 report

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust