Band 7 Advanced Nurse Practitioner

NHS; Oakham; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Oakham is seeking a Band 7 Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join their team. The role offers full-time employment without nights or weekends, focusing on high-quality patient care and clinical leadership. Applicants should have a valid nursing registration and an advanced practice qualification. Employees benefit from rewards like free parking and access to the NHS Pension Scheme. If you are passionate about exceptional care and work-life balance, apply to be part of this vibrant team.

Benefits

A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity

Access to the NHS Pension Scheme

Free on-site parking

Access to the gym

Pay as you dine facilities

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with active registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
• Advanced Practice Nurse Qualification or working towards it.
• Experience at Agenda for Change (AfC) Band 6 or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safe and effective delivery of nursing care.
• Provide clinical leadership in patient care.
• Mentor junior nurses and healthcare assistants.
• Manage nursing staff in collaboration with military nurses.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Nursing care

Team management

Patient assessment

Evidence-based practice

Education

BSc Honours Degree in Nursing

Registered nurse with NMC

Advanced Practice Nurse Qualification

Job description

Go back Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)

Band 7 Advanced Nurse Practitioner

The closing date is 05 January 2026

Are you looking for a better work-life balance with nonights and no weekend shifts?

Defence Primary HealthCare offers the perfect opportunity to enjoy a high-quality professional role without the unsociable hours.You'll benefit from full-time employment NHS continuingservice, and a supportive environment that values yourwellbeing.

We are seeking a dynamic, highly organised, andenthusiastic Band 7 Advanced Nurse Practitioner to joinour vibrant and fast-paced team at the Medical Centrebased at Kendrew Barracks, Oakham.As part of a combined practice, you will play a key role indelivering high-quality patient care and clinicalleadership. The role will require occasional travel toother facilities within the group, including Garats Hayand RAF Wittering, to support service delivery.

Full-time role: 37.5 hours per week

Part-time applicants considered (must be able to workas part of a job-share to cover full-time hours)

Salary pro-rata for part-time hours

If you are passionate about providing exceptional careand want a role that supports a better work-life balance,we would love to hear from you!

As a valued member of the team you will receive access to outstanding rewards and employee benefits, including:

• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
• Access to the NHS Pension Scheme
• Free on-site parking
• Access to the gym
• Pay as you dine facilities

Main duties of the job

The primary function of the Band 7 Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) within DPHC is to ensure the safe and effective delivery of nursing care. To provide effective clinical care through history taking, examination, diagnosing and prescribing to patients and to be responsible for all nursing services within the facilities.

Manage all nursing staff in collaboration with serving Military nurses and work closely with Practice Managers and General Practitioners to ensure that nurses are providing evidence-based practice and ensure preventative measures to chronic disease are identified and that active health promotion is delivered.

Mentor junior nurses, medics and healthcare assistants within the combined practice from all disciplines and assist with setting objectives and achieving good health outcomes to support the delivery of care to ensure maximum deployability across the region.

Provide visible leadership of the nursing team and ensure that there is a vision and direction for the team to work towards achieving.

About us

Our success depends on our people, our Whole Force, regular and reservist military, civil servants and contractors, all working as one, working together seamlessly to deliver for us.

Our civil servants are a central part of this Whole Force, developing strategy, making policy, supporting ministerial decision-making and Parliamentary processes. In fact, with over 2,000 different roles working across 650 sites around the world, now really is an excellent time to join one of the largest, most exciting departments in government.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to attracting and retaining people from across the full range of backgrounds and enabling flexible ways of working as the norm. We offer maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 2 weeks full pay.

In return, you can expect a department that helps you learn and develop that recognises your expertise and contribution, both as an individual and part of a team.

If you've ever wanted to do more, see more, go further or be better, we have roles in more professions and vocations than ever before. Let's see where your future will take you, together.

Job responsibilities

The main duties and responsibilities of the role include, but are not limited to:

• Clinically practice as a leader, co-ordinator and supervise the nursing practice.
• Be accountable for the direction of clinical delivery including managing, motivating, supervising, and allocating resource and time to ensure optimum clinical delivery.
• Ensure maximum optimisation of staff availability and clinical delivery.
• Ensure that every patient has their needs assessed and programmes of care are designed to meet the needs of the patient and that care is delivered in line with established policies and procedure.
• Encourage and promote innovative ways of working that are supportive and achieve the goals as directed by Headquarters, Regional Clinical Director, RNA and Regional Pharmacist.

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details.

Selection Process

The sift will be completed within 10 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.

At application stage you will be assessed against the following:

CV:

• Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in the CV section of the application form.
• Please provide information of how you meet the criteria set out in the Job Description. You may wish to further include examples of how you have tackled similar tasks or demonstrated the skills outlined in the job advert.

Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to supportyour application, however, all examples and statements provided must betruthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Whereplagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others,or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may bewithdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Pleasesee our candidateguidance for more information on appropriateand inappropriate use. https://www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk/artificial-intelligence-and-recruitment/

At interview you will be assessed against the following:

NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework

• NHS Core - NHSC1 Communication
• NHS Core - NHSC2 Personal & People Development
• NHS Core - NHSC5 Quality
• NHS Core - NHSC3 Health, Safety & Security
• NHS Core - NHSC4 Service Improvement
• NHS General - NHS G6 People Management

The interview may consist of a mix of direct questions and clinical situation-based scenarios.

Candidates invited to interview will be asked to present a 10 minute PowerPointpresentation on 'What does effective leadership mean when you are responsiblefor a change management programme?'.

There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview.

Further Information

Requests to work flexibly and/or part time will be considered, taking into account business needs. Please note the salary will be pro-rata where part time hours are undertaken.

All employees joining Ministry of Defence who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised) effective from the employment start date.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.

Access to the NHS pension scheme is available to the successful candidate.

If found successful for this position, you will be required to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Please note that evidence of your vaccination is not a proof of your immunity, but your serology levels will be required. Failure to provide sufficient evidence may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.

To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.

There is no requirement to deploy as this is met by our uniformed personnel, but you will form the continuity of care required by our patients when based at home.

The post does NOT offer relocation expenses (move of home, excess fares or temporary transfer). Non-Standard move applicants will be eligible for the full package, subject to eligibility.

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points-based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system.

Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected, and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative. Making the Civil Service a Great Place to Work for Veterans - GOV.UK

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with meet the minimum selection criteria.

If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact [e-mail].

The Ministry of Defence requires all candidates who are successful at interview to declare any outside interests. These declarations will be discussed with successful candidates following the interview process and before a formal offer of employment is made, as some outside interests may not be compatible with MOD civilian roles. This will not, in the majority of cases, prevent employment in MOD, but it is a measure that must be taken to ensure that appropriate mitigations can be put in place to manage any potential, perceived or actual conflicts of interest from the first day of employment.

The Ministry of Defence adopts a zero tolerance approach to unacceptable behaviours, which includes bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, and victimisation. You will not be eligible and will not be considered for this post if you have been dismissed from a role for such unacceptable behaviours within the last five years. This will also apply if you resign or otherwise leave a role but, because of an adverse decision, would have been dismissed for gross misconduct had you continued in that employment. Pre-employment checks will be carried out.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.

For details on our complaints procedure please see attached Important Information document.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with active registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
• BSc Honours Degree (Nursing) (or equivalent if pre-2019).
• Advanced Practice Nurse Qualification / post graduate diploma in Advance Practice or successful accreditation with the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) or actively working towards this.

Provide a CV

• Please copy and paste your full CV as your response to this question; you will not be able to upload your CV as an attachment.
• Please ensure to refer to the essential criteria where applicable as your application may be rejected should insufficient information to shortlist be included. Please use double spacing where possible.

Behaviour Statement

• Have you been dismissed for gross misconduct relating to bullying, harassment, discrimination or victimisation from any role in the past five years, or resigned or otherwise left a role but would have been dismissed for such gross misconduct because of adverse decision, had you continued in that employment?
• Please respond with Yes or No as appropriate.

Experience

• Experience at Agenda for Change (AfC) Band 6 or equivalent working within Primary Healthcare.

Licences

• Valid Driving Licence.

Registrations and Memberships

• Registered nurse on Part 1 of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register.
• Please provide your membership registration number.
• You are required to be registered with the relevant professional body, as detailed in the advert, prior to submitting your application. Your application will not progress should you fail to provide a valid membership registration number.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)

£47,810 to £54,710 a yearper annum (pro rata for part time)