Community Specialist Practitioner Single Point of Access
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 02/09/2026
- Closes
- 16/09/2026
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 Specialist Practitioner within the Single Point of Access (SPA) team, focusing on remote clinical decision-making and urgent community response. The practitioner will provide remote urgent assessment, treatment, and diagnosis for clinically deteriorating service users, particularly those who are complex and frail with long-term conditions. The position involves triaging clinical information, signposting to other services, and providing clinical leadership to ensure high-quality care. It also includes promoting digital technology in remote assessment and supporting the development of advanced clinical practice within the team.
Key responsibilities
- Provide remote urgent assessment, treatment, and diagnosis of clinically deteriorating service users.
- Triage and evaluate clinical information from examination and history taking and initiate appropriate treatment and/or referral.
- Signpost appropriately to other services in the identified healthcare pathway, such as specialist services.
- Provide a service that focuses on achieving and demonstrating overall improvements in health care for people who are complex and frail, with long term conditions who may present with urgent care needs.
- Provide robust clinical leadership to ensure high quality harm free care.
- To promote and champion use of digital technology in remote clinical assessment and decision making.
Essential criteria
- Expert knowledge of complex case management
- Developed skills and experience of managing service users with long term conditions and urgent care needs
- Experience of using clinical examination and diagnostic reasoning skills
- Experience in a relevant primary care, community or secondary care setting.
- Ability to work with a high level of autonomy and shared decision making.
- Ability to effectively communicate complex clinical information.
- Experience of working across organisational and professional boundaries to improve care, including challenging service delivery and provision.
- Experience of managing and leading people.
- Successful completion of a relevant post-graduate L7 (or higher) course or appropriate equivalent modules.
- Evidence of continuous personal and professional development and the commitment to undertake level 7 masters academic learning that supports the skillset required for this role.
- Knowledge of local, national, strategic and operational policy developments and an awareness of their implications.
- Willingness to undertake training required for the role.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of remote assessment
- Experience of clinical risk assessment
- Post registration module at master's level.
- Coaching / Teaching and Assessing qualification / experience.
- Understanding of the primary care, secondary care and provider interface.
- 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 Single Point of Access
The closing date is 16 September 2026
Job summary
SPA is looking for a Community Specialist Practitioner who shares its vision to progress remote clinical decision making within the community and provide a highly effective Urgent Community Response.
SPA have been delivering a more effective urgent response, promoting, and championing a "Home is Best" ethos. We are working closely with system partners to deliver new ways of working such as Frailty-ACE and direct pathway from SWAST to Sirona. This role provides a key component to these services and will work onsite with Brisdoc at Osprey Court.
We are utilising our Community Specialist Practitioners to provide remote clinical decision making and using their skills to best support patients. We are looking for a partner to support us in continuing to change the way we work to meet new demands and within this role there will be opportunities to develop your leadership skills, share your knowledge and passion for community practice, whilst also having opportunity to help shape and develop the service and your role within.
Main duties of the job
- Provide remote urgent assessment, treatment, and diagnosis of clinically deteriorating service users.
- Triage and evaluate clinical information from examination and history taking and initi
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