Community Specialist Practitioner – Long Term Conditions
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 08/09/2026
- Closes
- 22/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This fixed-term role is for an experienced Community Specialist Practitioner in Long Term Conditions to provide maternity cover within the South Gloucestershire Integrated Network Teams. The practitioner will autonomously identify and case manage individuals with complex needs, focusing on preventing avoidable hospital admissions and facilitating timely discharges. The role involves working with Primary Care Networks and providing clinical leadership to the INT, aiming to improve healthcare outcomes for people with frailty and multiple long-term conditions. Cross-cover for other teams may be required.
Essential criteria
- Current registration with NMC / HCPC or other relevant professional body of registration.
- Successful completion of a relevant post-graduate L3 (or higher) course or appropriate equivalent modules, such as disease specific qualifications, physical assessment and clinical reasoning.
- Evidence of continuous personal and professional development and ability to study at Masters level.
- Willingness to undertake training required for the role
Desirable criteria
- Masters level clinical qualification or working towards achieving this.
- Skills, Knowledge & Experience
- Knowledge of local, national, strategic and operational policy developments and an awareness of their implications
- Understanding of the primary care, secondary care and provider interface.
- Expert knowledge of complex case management
- Experience of community and multidisciplinary team working
- Ability to prioritise against tight deadlines and work under pressure
- Experience of undertaking clinical audits and analysing their results.
- Coaching / Teaching and Assessing qualification / experience.
- Knowledge of legal issues relating to the care of people such as Data Protection Act, Adult Protection procedures and the Mental Capacity Act.
- Current registration with NMC / HCPC or other relevant professional body of registration.
- Successful completion of a relevant post-graduate L3 (or higher) course or appropriate equivalent modules, such as disease specific qualifications, physical assessment and clinical reasoning.
- Evidence of continuous personal and professional development and ability to study at Masters level.
- Willingness to undertake training required for the role
- Masters level clinical qualification or working towards achieving this.
- Skills, Knowledge & Experience
- Knowledge of local, national, strategic and operational policy developments and an awareness of their implications
- Understanding of the primary care, secondary care and provider interface.
- Expert knowledge of complex case management
- Experience of community and multidisciplinary team working
- Ability to prioritise against tight deadlines and work under pressure
- Experience of undertaking clinical audits and analysing their results.
- Coaching / Teaching and Assessing qualification / experience.
- Knowledge of legal issues relating to the care of people such as Data Protection Act, Adult Protection procedures and the Mental Capacity Act.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Sirona care & health CIC
Community Specialist Practitioner – Long Term Conditions
The closing date is 22 September 2026
Job summary
Our Integrated Network Teams within South Glos (INTs) deliver out of hospital care to people in their own homes or community clinics within the area South Glos
Community Specialist Practitioner - Long Term Conditions (CSP-LTCs) are experienced, specialist clinicians with advanced clinical skills, case management techniques and a background in shared decision-making. They support people who are high intensity users of health care services. With this specialist intensive support, these service users are able to remain safely at home and have more choice about their health care.
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, decision making and managerial experience
The Locality teams are made up of:
- Community Specialist Practitioners Urgent and Long-term Conditions
- Community Nurses
- Community Therapists
- Paramedics
- Community Support Workers
- Administrators
This is a fixed-term post to provide maternity leave cover within the South Gloucestershire INTs. Applications are therefore invited from individuals currently working within the South Gloucestershire INTs who have an understandin
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