Senior Enhanced Practitioner | North Bristol NHS Trust

North Bristol NHS; Bristol; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Bristol is seeking an Enhanced Practitioner to join their Breast care unit. This role involves providing expert, patient-centered care, supporting individuals through screening, diagnosis, and treatment. The successful candidate will work closely with a multidisciplinary team to deliver tailored education and clinical expertise. Applicants should have experience in Breast care and the ability to manage complex clinical situations. The position underscores the importance of professional judgment, accountability, and teamwork.

Qualifications

• Experience in Breast care is required.
• Ability to manage complex situations.
• Critical understanding of professional scope.

Responsibilities

• Assess and plan individual treatment interventions.
• Provide expert clinical knowledge and support.
• Act as a role model within the clinical area.

Skills

Patient-centered care

Clinical judgement

Risk management

Communication skills

Job description

Job Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our dedicated team at the Breast care unit as an Enhanced practitioner. In this pivotal role, you will provide expert, patient-centered care to individuals across the Breast care unit supporting them through screening, diagnosis, treatment and recovery.

Working closely within a Multidisciplinary team, you will deliver compassionate support, tailored education, and clinical expertise to improve outcomes and empower patients and families.

We are seeking practitioners with experience in Breast care to join our team.

Responsibilities

• Assess, differentially diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate individual treatment interventions within a set field of practice for patients by virtue of enhanced clinical judgement and close liaison with members of the MDT.
• Use expertise and decision-making skills to inform clinical reasoning approaches when dealing with individual presentations and complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses.
• Initiate, evaluate, and modify a range of interventions which may include prescribing medicines, therapies, lifestyle advice and care.
• Provide specialist, expert clinical knowledge to colleagues, patients and carers/relatives both within and outside the Trust.
• Exercise professional judgement to manage risk appropriately, especially where there may be complex and unpredictable events and supporting teams to do likewise to ensure safety of individuals, families, and carers.
• Ensure compliance with their respective code of professional conduct and work within their scope of practice.
• Be able to demonstrate a critical understanding of their broadened level of responsibility and autonomy. This includes being critically aware of their limits of their own competence and professional scope of practice, including when working with complexity, risk, uncertainty, and incomplete information.
• Be responsible and accountable for their decisions, actions, and omissions at this enhanced level of practice.
• Act as a role model within the clinical area and the team as a research empowered practitioner.
• To work as the senior enhanced practitionerby sharing knowledge and information and supporting colleagues to promote a cohesive team and the achievement of objectives for the service.

About the Employer

North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building at Southmead. We are the regional Major Trauma Centre, and an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialities. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.

North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals. We aim to be an anti-discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We welcome applicants from all underrepresented groups.

Application Deadline

This advert closes on Sunday 28 Dec 2025