The role will support the team to work across the county, aligning with Neighbourhood Teams and Primary Care Networks, to provide clinical support to Care Home residents. This enables them to support Care Home staff to deliver care to residents that is consistently of a high quality. The team need to support and develop an evidence based approach to service developments to aid Care Homes to deliver a range of initiatives that will both reduce avoidable hospital admissions and provide staff with the knowledge and skills required to manage residents care needs locally. The Practitioner will support the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes and pathways of care and work autonomously to manage their workload, working across the county using a multi-disciplinary and multi agency approach to embed high standards of care within the care homes in Somerset.