Enhanced Clinical Practitioner

**Main area**
- Enhanced Clinical Practitioner

**Grade**

Band 7

**Contract**

Permanent

**Hours**

Full time - 37.5 hours per week (9am-5pm Monday to Friday)

**Job ref**

373-NBH0824

**Site**
- Workplace Hub

**Town**

Ellesmere Port

**Salary**

£47,810 - £54,710 per annum

**Salary period**

Yearly

**Closing**

23/09/2025 23:59

**Job overview**:
Are you an experienced health professional who enjoys working in a multi-professional team. If so an exciting opportunity has arisen to work alongside the Ellesmere Port West Community Care team based in Custom House, Ellesmere Port as an Enhanced Clinical Practitioner.

As an enhanced clinical practitioner you will work alongside the community team to manage a caseload of patients with a range of medical conditions, and act as an escalation point for patients who are being managed at home to GP, hospital or Hospital at Home. You will have close working relationships with specialist teams such as respiratory, frailty, palliative care, heart failure as well as with community teams.

**Main duties of the job**:
Please see Job description for full list of the main duties of the job.

As a key member of the clinical team, you will be expected to provide clinical examinations, clinical case management, case reviews and continuing health care reviews.

Developing good relationships with the wider MDT to promote patient care and referring to other health professionals and external agencies as required to best support the patient.

Successful applicant will be professionally and legally accountable for all work undertaken within the role and have professional autonomy and accountability within CWP policies and NMC or Health and care professions council code of conduct.

To hold or be working towards V300.

To provide senior clinical leadership within the community care team and support the team manager where appropriate.

To support staff with professional development and provide mentorship for students and new starters within the team.

**Working for our organisation**:
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care, as well as the provision of three GP surgeries in Cheshire.

We employ around 4,500 staff across 73 sites and have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton and Liverpool.

Our aim is to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We are rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission, with a Good rating overall.

All new starters will commence in post on one fixed start date each month, in line with our Prepare to Care (P2C) induction programme date. P2C offers up to 3 weeks training to support you to meet the induction / initial training requirements of the role.

Whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your existing skills and experience in a new role, you’ll find something to suit you at CWP.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
Please download a copy of the job description (see ‘documents to download’ section below) for full details of the main responsibilities for this role.

At CWP, our recruitment selection processes are based on both competence (see person specification for details) and values.

CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values in their everyday life and we use a values-based approach in our interviews, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.

If you have a disability that meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the ‘essential’ criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer ‘YES’ to the question: ‘Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?’

Please inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Registered Nurse Level 1 or qualified AHP
- V300 Prescribing or working towards this study
- Mentorship & Assessing Qualification
- To have completed the level 7 clinical examination skills module or be currently undertaking this study
- Post holder requires minimum 5 years post registration
- To be working towards a level 7 qualification in an appropriate area of clinical practice

**Knowledge and Expertise**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Evidence of continuing professional development

**Experience*