Emergency Nurse Practitioner

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust; Ashton-under-Lyne; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking an Emergency Nurse Practitioner to join their Urgent Treatment Centre in Ashton-under-Lyne. In this role, you will use your extensive emergency care experience to lead and support a multidisciplinary team, ensuring high-quality patient care. Key responsibilities include assessing patients, managing urgent care settings, and providing senior leadership. The ideal candidate will have significant experience and a nursing degree. The position offers flexible working, annual leave, and additional health benefits.

Benefits

Flexible working

27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays

NHS Pension Scheme

Gym discount

Support with stress and bereavement

Qualifications

• Proven experience in an Emergency Medicine setting or Urgent Care.
• Registered nurse with evidence of recent professional development.
• Mentoring or teaching qualification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead and supervise emergency care setting.
• Assess and manage a caseload of patients autonomously.
• Maintain effective communication with team and patients.

Skills

Emergency Nurse Practitioner experience

Leadership skills

Excellent communication skills

Autonomous working

Education

Degree in Nursing

NMC Registration

University based ENP course level 6/7

Tools

Electronic health records

Job description

Emergency Nurse Practitioner

Band 7, Full / Part Time, Permanent contract

Closing date is 13 January 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Urgent Treatment Centre at Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust as an Emergency Nurse Practitioner. The service currently operates between 07:30 - 22:00 hours, 7 days a week. We have completed a £20m refurbishment of our Emergency Care Village so there has never been a more exciting time to join the Urgent Care Team influencing and shaping the both the Emergency Care our patients receive and the environment our staff work in.

The successful candidate will have significant Emergency Nurse Practitioner experience and will lead by example using excellent communication skills, manage, prioritise and deliver high quality care to our patients. You will be expected to provide senior leadership and management, escalating concerns as appropriate to the ED/UTC Matron. Managing staff, reviewing appraisals and supporting health and wellbeing and day to day staffing with support of the multi-disciplinary ED management team. You will lead and supervise the work of others and manage the emergency care setting. Both our patients and our staff are important to us – Everyone Matters, so you will be valued, supporting the department and junior staff to develop the workforce in order to deliver exceptional quality care.

Main duties of the job

• Practice as an Emergency Nurse Practitioner within your own sphere of competence and agreed acceptable limits of practice (scope regularly reviewed and signed off by the Matron and Specialty Lead Consultant).
• Assess patients, and order and interpret investigations, diagnose and treat patients who wish to be seen by an Emergency Nurse Practitioner without reference to a Doctor.
• Be responsible for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care without supervision, and teach other nursing and non‑nursing staff the core skills of adult and children’s minor injury and ailment.
• Take charge of the clinical area if necessary and demonstrate to more junior nurses how this might be done efficiently.
• Work autonomously whilst part of a multidisciplinary team, assessing and managing a caseload of patients within the Emergency Department.
• Maintain effective communication with patients, carers and professionals to ensure seamless service delivery.

About us

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children. Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.

We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:

• Compassion
• Accountability
• Respect

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ & Disabled people.

Benefits include: flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.

Job responsibilities

The job description gives an overview of the main tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification focuses on the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. These documents are attached on the page and can be downloaded. The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

Person Specification

Experience

• Primary Care Experience

Additional Clinical Skills

• Additional Clinical Skills

Shortlisting

• RN with NMC Registration
• Proven and current experience in the Emergency Medicine setting/Urgent Care
• Educated to Degree Level or working toward
• Senior Band 5 RN or above in an Emergency Care Setting with experience of Urgent Care
• Evidence of recent professional development over the past year with self‑directed study and a demonstration of seeking and undertaking autonomous learning and development opportunities
• University based ENP course level 6/7 including minor injury and minor illness
• Experience of C&YP
• Non-medical prescribing
• Hold registered mentor or teaching/education qualification

Interview

• Values Based

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.

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust