Enhanced Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 28/08/2026
- Closes
- 14/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an autonomous and experienced clinician role supporting urgent care response within the Hospital at Home Service in Cornwall. The post holder will consult, assess, and treat patients with complex needs to prevent unnecessary acute hospital admissions. This includes comprehensive assessment, managing frailty and chronic disease, identifying deterioration, and supporting palliative care patients. The role requires an innovative individual to help co-design and transform community services.
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience at a senior level working with older people, assessing and managing individuals with long term conditions and frailty and people in the last year of life.
- Completion of/or currently undertaking the Degree level long term conditions module, or RCN accredited Nurse Practitioner diploma or the equivalent. Or evidence of undertaking advanced clinical examinations and making independent clinical decisions for complex and unpredictable presentations.
- Current professional registration as an RN or AHP with NMC or HCPC
Desirable criteria
- Current Non-medical Prescriber or currently /willing to undertake the module
- Experience of leadership and leading change or project implementation
- Skills and Aptitude
- Ability to work autonomously and flexibly, managing competing priorities
- Knowledge and Abilities
- Knowledge and understanding of issues relating to frailty and long term conditions
- Understanding of Palliative care and deterioration clinical support required for patients in the last year of life.
- Ability to implement research into practice
- Education / Qualifications and Relevant Experience
- Substantial experience at a senior level working with older people, assessing and managing individuals with long term conditions and frailty and people in the last year of life.
- Completion of/or currently undertaking the Degree level long term conditions module, or RCN accredited Nurse Practitioner diploma or the equivalent. Or evidence of undertaking advanced clinical examinations and making independent clinical decisions for complex and unpredictable presentations.
- Current professional registration as an RN or AHP with NMC or HCPC
- Current Non-medical Prescriber or currently /willing to undertake the module
- Experience of leadership and leading change or project implementation
- Skills and Aptitude
- Ability to work autonomously and flexibly, managing competing priorities
- Knowledge and Abilities
- Knowledge and understanding of issues relating to frailty and long term conditions
- Understanding of Palliative care and deterioration clinical support required for patients in the last year of life.
- Ability to implement research into practice
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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Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Enhanced Practitioner
The closing date is 14 September 2026
Job summary
*Please note that this role will be based in the North & East of Cornwall and will involve travel to all areas within this locality between the hours of 0800-2000*
This is an exciting and autonomous role supporting the urgent care responseplan in Cornwall working within the Hospital at Home Service This is a role requiring an innovative and experienced clinician, with a proven track record or recognised potential for embracing and leading change. This role will require vision and enthusiasm to help codesign and transform our evolving community services within Cornwall as we look forward to embracing Integrated Neighbourhood Teams. There is a need to test new models of care delivery and enhanced practice roles, this will necessitate a flexible and responsive individual who is confident to adapt and work with autonomy and ambiguity.
Main duties of the job
You will be required to consult, assess, and treat patients who are referred with undifferentiated, unpredictable, varied and complex needs, ensuring holistic assessment, prompt treatment and crisis care planning is undertaken to directly prevent unnecessary acute hospital admission.
The enhanced clinical level of this role will require you to be able to undertake enhanced
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