Enhanced Clinical Practitioner | Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 14 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 p.a. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 September 2025 |
| Location: | Bournemouth, BH1 4HT |
| Company: | Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7397256/152-M21425 |
Summary
As an Enhanced Clinical Practitioner, you will be a confident clinical leader, with the ability to work flexibly and make clinical decisions in a fast paced environment, provide supervision, consultation and guidance to CAMHS clinicians and other agencies and help provide support, advice and guidance to families across Dorset.
As a team, we will offer an exciting and varied role that can help you develop and grow as a clinical leader.
The service is about to embark on an exciting phase of growth, with new investment and changes coming and as a result this role will evolve as our service develops, and you may initially support existing teams while new structures are launched. It’s a great chance to broaden your understanding, grow your skills, and be part of shaping something new. We’re looking for adaptable, positive individuals who thrive in change and are excited to help build the future of our service.
As an Enhanced Clinical Practitioner, you will provide high quality person centered care in accordance with the Thrive model and undertake independent assessment and management of service users to incorporate psychological and developmental considerations, where appropriate making complex clinical decisions regarding service user management and clinical outcomes.
You will feel confident in providing advanced clinical advice, leadership and support to the wider team, ensuring the needs of the service are met, as well as being a point of contact for other agencies.
You will be able to manage change, monitor and improve standards through supervision, evidence-based practice, clinical audit, research and education, and promote and demonstrate best practice by integrating evidence into practice.
You will have oversight of the patient flow by ensuring that clinical decisions are guided by biopsychosocial formulations of need, and there are clear treatment plans with identified goals and processes for evaluating clinical impact of any psychological interventions.
At Dorset HealthCare we're on a mission to empower people to make the most of their lives through our outstanding, joined-up healthcare services. We're a dynamic, forward-looking Trust, running 12 community hospitals, specialist inpatient facilities and a wide range of integrated community and mental health services for a population of almost 800,000 people.
We do things differently here - it's one of the reasons the CQC rated us 'outstanding' in 2019. It's also why 95% of patients across our services say they have a good or very good experience of our services and 89% of staff feel they can really make a difference. Whether you're looking to work with us in one of our bustling market towns, vibrant urban locations, thriving seaside spots, or among the rolling hills of Dorset, there are lots of ways you can make a difference in our communities.
Our 7,000-strong workforce is at the heart of what we do and our success is a testament to our brilliant people. We're all about building a workplace for the future, we believe in equal opportunities and we celebrate diversity. We're an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be authentic, and we are all encouraged to be the best version of ourselves.
Working with us you'll be part of a strong team, challenge yourself, build a career, and teach us what we don't know. And you'll be working towards our vision to be better every day through excellence, compassion and expertise in all we do.
Please see the job description and person specification for more details of the roles and responsibilities for this post. When completing your application please ensure your supporting statement reflects the criteria set out in these documents by showing how your experience and skills apply to this post.
As part of our vision to have a skilled, diverse and caring workforce, Dorset HealthCare offers support for people getting into work. We offer an employability service to support individuals with application writing, interview skills and other employment support. If you would like or know of anyone who would value this support, please do contact dhc.wideningparticipation@nhs.net
This advert closes on Thursday 28 Aug 2025