Community Practitioner - UCR Frailty Hospital at Home (UCRFHH)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
- Posted
- 03/09/2026
- Closes
- 17/09/2026
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 role is for a Community Practitioner within the Urgent Community Response Frailty Hospital at Home (UCR FH@H) team. The team provides urgent, hospital-level care to patients in their homes following a sudden health deterioration, aiming to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions. The post holder will conduct holistic assessments and deliver treatments, working collaboratively with other community services. It requires a broad range of clinical skills and offers development in leadership.
Essential criteria
- Communicates openly, honestly and professionally, and actively promotes team working and building strong working relationships
- Patients are always first. Drives service improvements. Strong self-awareness with a desire to develop
- Treats all with compassion and kindness. Ensures everyone feels valued.
- Consults others and listens to their views/opinions. Enables others to take the initiative
- Education, Qualifications and Training
- Registered Healthcare Professional with HCPC and Degree in Physiotherapy
- Experience of recent Continuous Professional Development.
- Relevant post graduate clinical training e.g. Advanced History Taking & Assessment
- Training in: Long Term Conditions Respiratory Disease Cardiac Disease Trauma, Orthopaedics & End of Life
- Demonstrate experience post or pre-registration placements in relevant clinical areas for therapists:- Care of Elderly Orthopaedics Neurology Respiratory Palliative Care Long term conditions
- Experience of working in an NHS community/in-patient setting for a minimum of 2 years post registration
- In depth experience of working within multi-agency/multi-disciplinary team.
- Experience of working with NHS or Adult Social Care single assessment process.
- Experience of electronic clinical systems.
- Experience participating in research or audit project.
- Experience of day-to-day staff management e.g. case allocation to Health Care Assistants
- Values
- Communicates openly, honestly and professionally, and actively promotes team working and building strong working relationships
- Patients are always first. Drives service improvements. Strong self-awareness with a desire to develop
- Treats all with compassion and kindness. Ensures everyone feels valued.
- Consults others and listens to their views/opinions. Enables others to take the initiative
- Education, Qualifications and Training
- Registered Healthcare Professional with HCPC and Degree in Physiotherapy
- Experience of recent Continuous Professional Development.
- Relevant post graduate clinical training e.g. Advanced History Taking & Assessment
- Training in: Long Term Conditions Respiratory Disease Cardiac Disease Trauma, Orthopaedics & End of Life
- Demonstrate experience post or pre-registration placements in relevant clinical areas for therapists:- Care of Elderly Orthopaedics Neurology Respiratory Palliative Care Long term conditions
- Experience of working in an NHS community/in-patient setting for a minimum of 2 years post registration
- In depth experience of working within multi-agency/multi-disciplinary team.
- Experience of working with NHS or Adult Social Care single assessment process.
- Experience of electronic clinical systems.
- Experience participating in research or audit project.
- Experience of day-to-day staff management e.g. case allocation to Health Care Assistants
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 2d ago · Closes in 13d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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Job summary
Are you a Community Practitioner with a broad range of clinical skills
Do you thrive in a busy, dynamic and rapidly revolving service and wish to develop you leadership skills?
If so, this role may be for you.
TheUrgent Community Response Frailty Hospital at Home (UCR FH@H) team delivers hospital-level urgent and same-day responses to people in their usual place of residence following a sudden deterioration in their health or condition. This could be a one-off visit or a short episode of care, delivered through multidisciplinary team working and working collaboratively with other community services. The timely responses and high level of holistic assessment and effective clinical interventions reduce the need for unnecessary hospital conveyances or admissions and enable patients to remain at home where they recover best.The post holder will work with a range of professionals to ensure care is appropriate and delivered in a timely manner. The post holder will be able to demonstrate their professional skills and competence in leadership, care planning / co-ordination, and care and treatment delivery.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will respond to clinically appropriate 0-2 hour and 2-24 hour community response referrals, alongside planned follow up visits across the breadth of the service, providing holistic assessment and delivering hospital level t
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