Consultant Nurse | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST; City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare trust is seeking a Consultant Nurse/Practitioner for Urgent & Emergency Medicine. The role involves leading advanced nursing practices, collaborating with a multidisciplinary team, and implementing innovative care pathways. Applicants should have a Registered Nurse qualification and relevant experience in urgent care. This exciting opportunity offers career development, flexible working, and employee wellbeing initiatives.

Benefits

Career development

Flexible working

Staff recognition scheme

Qualifications

• Proven experience in an urgent and emergency care environment.
• Strong leadership skills in a clinical setting.
• Ability to manage a defined patient caseload.

Responsibilities

• Lead and implement advanced nursing practice within Emergency Departments.
• Collaborate on policies and protocols to improve patient care.
• Identify training needs to ensure high standards of care delivery.

Skills

Clinical decision-making

Advanced assessment skills

Leadership and management

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Advanced Practice qualification

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Consultant Nurse/Practitioner position within Urgent and Emergency Medicine at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

The Consultant Nurse/Practitioner for Urgent & Emergency Medicine (UEM) will serve as a role model for expert, autonomous clinical practice, with responsibility for leading the development of nursing standards and advanced practice across UEM. As an integral member of the UEM leadership team, the post holder will work in close collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues to shape and deliver the clinical strategy for urgent and emergency care — ensuring safe, timely, and effective care that meets national standards and local population needs.

The Consultant Nurse/Practitioner will lead the development and delivery of advanced nursing practice within the Emergency Departments, and support consistency and quality across Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. They will also play a key role in designing and implementing new emergency care pathways, working across organisational boundaries to support integrated care and reduce avoidable hospital admissions.

Responsibilities

• Act as a role model for expert clinical nursing practice, participating directly in the delivery of care to patients within UEC.
• Lead as an expert clinical practitioner, utilising advanced skills in assessment, clinical decision-making, and diagnostics to manage a defined patient caseload.
• Contribute to the planning, delivery, and evaluation of emergency care services in line with national policy and local strategic goals.
• Collaborate with clinical and managerial colleagues to develop and implement policies, procedures, and protocols that improve patient care.
• Line manage and provide strategic leadership to the team of Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs), and trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioners (t-ACPs).
• Inspire and motivate staff through expert leadership, fostering a high-performance culture based on innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Identify current and future training needs of staff in the ED to support high standards of care delivery.
• Work closely with the practice education team and local education providers to support learning and development opportunities.

About Imperial College Healthcare

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits and Work Environment

• Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Optional benefits include Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
• We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Additional Information

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

This advert closes on Tuesday 30 Sep 2025