Advanced Nurse Practitioner | East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 14 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £53,755 - £60,504 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 June 2025 |
| Location: | EDGH, BN21 2UD |
| Company: | ESHT |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7158967/374-CFLVB1405 |
Summary
The Advanced Nurse/Practitioner will promote the vision and values of East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, leading by example and ensuring that they demonstrate those values in their leadership behaviours and how we support our teams and deliver our services
The Advanced Nurse/Practitioner will be able to provide expert professional advice and develops and implements specialist care
The Advanced Nurse/Practitioner will ensure clinical excellence.
The Advanced Nurse/Practitioner provides specialist education and training to staff, students, carers and patients and develops educational pathways.
The Advanced Nurse Practitioner undertakes research and leads clinical audits in own specialist area and contributes to Trust wide research programmes
Line management responsibilities will be dependent upon role and specialist area of work
TheAdvanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP)plays a pivotal role in delivering advanced clinical, professional, and operational leadership across the Urgent Community Response (UCR) and Virtual Ward services. This role is critical to ensuring safe, responsive, and evidence-based care for patients in their own homes, care settings, or within intermediate care environments.
Working autonomously within their professional scope, the ANP will carry out complex assessments, make diagnostic decisions, prescribe treatments, and coordinate care, while also supporting the wider multidisciplinary team. They are instrumental in delivering national and local priorities, including admission avoidance, early supported discharge, and virtual ward initiatives.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
· Deliver advanced assessments, diagnostics, prescribing, and care planning for complex patients.
· Act as a senior clinical leader and role model; support team performance and lead MDTs.
· Mentor junior staff, contribute to training plans, support induction and professional development.
· Drive incident reviews, quality audits, and improvement plans; support compliance with CQC and national standards.
· Contribute to service transformation initiatives, digital innovations, and business case delivery.
· Ensure safe rostering, resource allocation, and delivery of KPIs linked to patient flow and urgent care access.
Working for your organisation
A wide range of staff benefits are available to our staff including staff development, enrolment in the NHS pension scheme, auto-enrolment to our Temporary Workforce Service, access to nurseries at EDGH and Conquest, staff restaurants and on-site staff accommodation.
In addition to an internal Occupational Health department, all staff also have access to free psychological support through our confidential Employee Assistance Programme which is available to staff 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Onsite parking is available from only £50 a year.
There has never been a better time to join East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, submit your application today.
Please refer to the job description attached.
If you have any questions about this position please do not hesitate to contact us.
This advert closes on Wednesday 28 May 2025
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