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: 24 August 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).
Person specification
Experience
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
Desirable
- Experience of teaching at post graduate level/HEI
- Experience in undertaking research projects and publishing articles
- Consultancy experience
Qualifications
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
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
Additional Criteria
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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