Bank Enhanced Clinical Practitioner (ECP) - Swindon

Package Description

As an Bank Enhanced Clinical Practitioner (ECP), you’ll be part of our valued team in Hospital at Home service based across community bases within Swindon or Wiltshire (North, East, South or West).

You will feel valued as an Enhanced Clinical Practitioner (ECP) within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards

• £28.05 an hour
• Self-booking and access to all bank shifts! Staff are given access to all Bank shifts within their Business Unit and can self-book providing they meet the shift requirements.
• Request a Duty – Staff can make shifts or Day Off requests prior to the creation of a roster up to six weeks in advance. This helps promote a better work life balance and allows for personal commitments to be met
• HCRG Care Group is pleased to offer access to Wagestream - which lets you track your pay throughout the month and stream your earned wages into your bank account if you need them. No more high-interest loans or overdraft fees - simply get paid as you go.
• Working in an environment focused on the highest clinical and quality standards
• Opportunities to work in different areas and various different services to gain new knowledge and experience
• Access to our Strive for Better networks, a national support and professional network made up of NHS professionals like you, giving you the chance to constantly develop industry-leading care and quality
• Access to our free well-being service available 24/7/365 online and by telephone including; counsellors, post trauma incident support, legal, debt and practical life management helpline, guided self-help, telephonic career coaching and monthly well-being newsletters
• Free statutory and mandatory training, as well as access to a range of courses and e-learning to develop further skills and in-house opportunities continuing your professional development
• Innovative forward-thinking culture with the opportunity to put forward your ideas to contribute to the way we work. You will be encouraged to apply for national funding to drive your initiatives locally to benefit our patients and service users
• Rewarding and supportive teams, you will be recognised and have opportunities to recognise others by nominating for local and national awards annually and taking part in our new virtual “Ask our Executives” event, where you can submit questions to the board and hear updates regularly on company strategy and objectives
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Job introduction

We have an exciting opportunity for an Bank Enhanced Clinical Practitioner (ECP) to join our team based across community bases within Swindon or Wiltshire (North, East, South or West) Hospital at Home service. The service is currently undergoing an exciting period of transformation, making this an excellent time to become part of a dynamic and innovative team.

You will be working delivering high‑quality, acute‑level care to patients across West Wiltshire directly in their own homes. Working within a Step Up and Step Down model, you will play a vital role in both preventing unnecessary hospital admissions and supporting early, safe discharge from acute settings. You’ll care for patients who would traditionally require an inpatient stay, using your clinical expertise to assess, treat, and manage complex health needs in a flexible and rewarding community‑based environment.

As a key member of a dynamic multidisciplinary team, you’ll work alongside innovative, forward‑thinking colleagues who are passionate about delivering compassionate, person‑centred care. Our Hospital at Home service champions professional autonomy, collaborative working, and advanced clinical decision‑making allowing you to make a real difference to patient outcomes while shaping the future of healthcare closer to home.

If you are interested or would like further information please contact: Rachel Scott on rachel.scott@hcrgcaregroup.com or Emma Williams on emma.williams@hcrgcaregroup.com

Recruitment Advisor: Louise Ledward on 07884 659608 or louise.ledward@hcrgcaregroup.com

We are happy to answer any questions that you may have.

Main Responsibilities

As an Bank Enhanced Clinical Practitioner (ECP) you will report to the Advanced Clinical Practitioner you will deliver high‑quality, evidence‑based enhanced clinical care, using advanced assessment, clinical reasoning, diagnosis, and treatment planning to manage patients with acute and complex needs. Maintain oversight of patient care, identifying and responding to deterioration, escalating appropriately, and documenting in line with clinical governance.

Provide clinical leadership within the multidisciplinary team, supporting safe decision‑making, care prioritisation, and collaborative working across services. Act as a professional role model, coordinating enhanced clinical input to optimise patient outcomes.

Contribute to supervision, education, and workforce development, supporting a positive learning culture. Participate in audit, quality improvement, and service development, helping to refine clinical pathways and support continuous improvement within the Hospital at Home service.

For a full list of responsibilities please see the attached Job Description.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate for this role will:

Essential

• Current professional registration with the NMC or HCPC
• Degree‑educated with relevant postgraduate learning or equivalent experience in enhanced clinical practice
• Recognised qualification in enhanced/advanced clinical assessment and diagnostic reasoning (e.g. PAD‑RAP / PACR or equivalent)
• Significant post‑registration experience in elderly care, frailty, community services, or a relevant acute specialty
• Strong experience in urgent and/or acute clinical assessment, including undifferentiated and complex presentations
• Proven ability to independently manage complex caseloads and make autonomous clinical decisions
• Experience working within multidisciplinary and multi‑agency teams
• Leadership experience, including clinical supervision and supporting service or practice development
• Excellent communication skills and strong clinical judgement
• Ability to work autonomously in a dynamic clinical environment
• Confident IT skills and experience using electronic clinical systems
• Commitment to safe practice, professional accountability, and clinical governance
• Current full driving license and use of a car during working hours.

Desirable

• Recognised teaching, mentorship or practice assessor qualification
• Current Independent Prescribing qualification, or demonstrable progression toward qualification, with experience supporting prescribing and treatment of frail older adults and patients with complex needs
• Involvement in relevant clinical interest or professional groups
• Experience of clinical audit, service evaluation, research and/or quality improvement
• Understanding of quality, safety and governance frameworks within community or urgent care services
  
  

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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