Job summary
Advanced Practitioner
We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Advanced Practitioner to join our team and provide expert, autonomous practice across our community services. This is a senior clinical role for a registered health or social care professional with a Master's level qualification (or equivalent) in Advanced Clinical Practice and an NHSE 'Advanced' digital badge.
You will deliver high level assessment, complex clinical decision making, evidence based interventions and personalised care for people with diverse and often challenging needs. Working across the four pillars of advanced practice, you will contribute to clinical leadership, education, research, quality improvement and service development.
As a visible clinical leader, you will collaborate with senior managers, APs, Consultant Practitioners and multiprofessional teams to ensure safe, effective, high quality care. You will provide supervision to trainee APs and support staff development within a culture of continuous learning.
You will also play a key role in service innovation, audit, safeguarding, governance, and improvement of patient pathways. A minimum of 20% of your time will be dedicated to nonclinical advanced practice activities.
If you are compassionate, autonomous, analytically strong, and committed to excellence, we would love you to join us and help shape the future of our services.
Main duties of the job
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for additional details and information
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
Details
- Date posted: 08 June 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 8a
- Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: 348-MNH-10362
- Job locations: Alton Community Hospital, Chawton Park Road, Alton, Hampshire, GU34 1RJ, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
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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This advert is for Advanced Practitioner with Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Southampton, South East, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Nurse practitioner role. The advertised salary is £57,528 to £64,750 a year. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 21 Jun 2026.
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