The closing date is 6th Sep 2026
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Job summary
The Consultant Clinical Practitioner (CCP) is a key corporate leadership role. Working alongside the Clinical Director, Operational Director, Head of Quality and Professional Leads, the post holder will provide visible and inspirational leadership, connecting patients, staff and partners with the vision and values of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (HIOW).
The CCP will act as the strategic clinical lead for the development, mobilisation and implementation of the jointly commissioned Experts at Hand Service across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The service supports delivery of the Government's SEND reforms outlined in the Schools White Paper, Every Child Achieving and Thriving (DfE, 2026), and will operate through joint health and education commissioning, delivery and accountability arrangements.
The service will support school-aged children across the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care System. The post holder will provide clinical and professional leadership for a system-wide workforce, enabling the delivery of high-quality universal, targeted and targeted-plus support within education settings. They will lead the mapping and integration of local pathways, support the development of communication public health strategies, and ensure consistent, evidence-based practice is established across the system. Given the scale and complexity of implementation, the role requires senior strategic leadership and advanced clinical expertise.
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Main duties, tasks & skills required
Facilitate the building of close working relationships with strategic leads for Education and SEND across all four local authorities.
Lead and mobilise the Expert and Hand Service across HIOWH system liaising with the relevant stakeholders within the system.
Work across the four pillars of consultant practice. Specifically, the postholder will have substantial time planned for consultancy across the Hampshire and Isle of Wight integrated care system.
Provide advanced and expert level of clinical practice supporting comprehensive assessments, clinical consultancy, case management, treatment and education.
Undertake professional and service leadership, consultancy and strategic whole system work alongside partnership agencies.
Lead on the development of educational forums, developing and delivering competency frameworks within the service line, speciality area and HIOWH.
Lead on growing a culture of embedding evidence-based practise, clinical research, supporting a research portfolio for studies within the service line, linking with relevant stakeholders and acting as a Principal Investigator in fields relevant to their clinical practice.
Work within the fifth pillar of advanced practice, 'Strategic function' for consultant practitioners. Establishing expertise across the system by using consultancy approaches and opportunities that have maximum impact on practice, services, communities and populations, and which add to and sustain workforce capacity and capability.
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About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
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Job description
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
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Person specification
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Qualifications
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Essential
Registered Professional
Educated to Masters' degree level or PHD in relevant specialty
Evidence of post registration development in autonomous practice/clinical skills (e.g Masters/ACP Masters/PG Cert/PGradDip)
Evidence of qualification or training in prescribing specialist equipment, therapies, lifestyle advice and care - if required for the role
Completion of relevant extended role scope competencies
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Desirable
Teaching qualification
Relevant research qualification - Good clinical Practice
Leadership and management qualification or equivalent
HEE Digital Staff badge demonstrating ACP accreditation with The Centre for Advancing Practice
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Experience
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Essential
Advanced Clinical Leadership within and across relevant specialities.
Experience of advanced clinical practice at 7/8 level in relevant clinical speciality
Experience of a senior professional role in relevant clinical speciality.
Experience of analysis and reporting of data
Experience of developing and implementing evidence-based practice
Experience of implementing complex change in a clinical setting
Experience of inter-agency working and system delivery
Clinical experience of leading health care services within speciality
Experience of working in partnership with multi-disciplinary teams
Experience of research and implementation of evidence-based practice in relevant clinical speciality
Experience in influencing internal/external activities
Experience in developing and delivering programmes of clinical practise
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Desirable
Experience of teaching at post graduate level/HEI
Experience in undertaking research projects and publishing articles
Consultancy experience
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Additional Criteria
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Essential
Excellent communication skills, written and verbal, to enable communication with a wide range of stakeholders and for clinical purposes, negotiation, leadership and influence. This includes managing highly complex communications where there may be barriers to understanding.
Highly developed interpersonal skills, with meticulous attention to detail
Complex planning and organisational skills
Work with a high degree of autonomy and professional accountability
Highly developed analytical skills to diagnose problems and formulate solutions
Evidence of practise innovation and quality improvement
Excellent IT skills for data management, reporting, presentation and communication.
Skills to train and update staff on service developments as required.
Highly developed problem-solving skills including the ability to deescalate difficult situations and achieve resolution
Evidence of advanced clinical skills
Self-motivated and able to prioritise within a large and varied workload
Ability to manage resources; this includes involvement in workforce planning and staff budgeting.
Ability to identify and optimise learning opportunities
Ability to work as part of a team and ability to command respect of the multi-disciplinary team
Self-motivated, self-starter, able to organise a large and varied work programme including identifying own development needs
Ability to lead and influence system-wide change
Flexible and adaptable at work in order to meet competing priorities
Able to respond and prioritise and analyse highly complex and unpredictable health presentations and ensure effective interventions are actioned
Able to work in unpleasant working conditions on occasions, i.e. bodily fluids.
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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UK Professional Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
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For help with your application, contact:
Clare Smith
[email protected]
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Pay scheme
Agenda for Change
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Band
Band 8b
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Salary
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£66582.00 to £77368.00 Yearly
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Contract
Fixed Term
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Duration
2 Year(s)
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Working pattern
Full-Time
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Reference number
348-CFS-12304
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Job locations
Portsmouth Civic Offices
Guildhall Square
Portsmouth
Hampshire
PO1 2GJ
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Attachments
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Job Description
B8b Consultant Practitioner E@H JDPS.pdf – 429KB Opens in a new window
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Additional document 1
EmployeeBenefits_hiowh_v1-compressed_3.pdf – 1001KB Opens in a new window
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