Consultant Clinical Practitioner Experts at Hand

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.

Main duties of the job

• 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.

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: 01 September 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 8b
• Salary: £66,582 to £77,368 a year Please note for part time hours the salary will be pro rata
• Contract: Fixed term
• Duration: 2 years
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 348-CFS-12304
• Job locations: Portsmouth Civic Offices, Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1 2GJ, 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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).