Lead Nurse/Practitioner- Urgent Treatment Centre

NHS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 81,000; Full time

Job summary

An NHS Trust in Greater London is seeking a Lead Practitioner for Urgent Care to provide leadership across multiple hospitals. This full-time role involves ensuring high-quality patient care, mentoring clinical staff, and leading service development initiatives. Candidates should hold a relevant Master’s degree and possess extensive experience in urgent care, leadership skills, and excellent communication abilities.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse or Paramedic qualification essential.
• Leadership experience managing clinical teams required.
• Experience setting up and running nurse-led services desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team in managing patients with emergency and urgent care needs.
• Deliver high standards of care and operational leadership.
• Act as a resource for healthcare professionals and advocate for patients.

Skills

Clinical skills in urgent care

Leadership

Communication skills

Education

Masters Degree/Advanced Nurse/Clinical Practitioner qualification

ENP Qualification

First Level Registered Nurse/First level Health Care Registered Paramedic

Job description

Job summary

The lead practitioner for urgent care shall provide professional leadership to the nursing and allied healthcare professional workforce across three sites- Northwick Park Hospital, Ealing Hospital and Central Middlesex Hospital. They will work closely with the departmental teams to ensure the delivery of high quality patient centred care. The lead practitioner shall act as a link between all urgent care centres, both emergency departments, the wider division and organisation.

The lead practitioner will lead on the development of new services and patient care processes/pathways ensuring they match the needs of the patient and service and the wider local health population. The lead practitioner will support the wider division and triumvirate to ensure operational performance is maintained and to develop strategies to improve performance and quality of care delivered.

The lead practitioner will act as a role model and mentor to staff and will be pivotal in the ongoing development of advanced practice and the emergency nurse/care practitioner service.

If you are interested in undertaking this secondment opportunity and wish to develop further in your career this could be the post for you.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will be a recognised expert in the field of emergency and urgent care and act as a resource to both medical, nursing and other associated health care professionals as well as to patients and relatives.
• To independently practice and lead a team using developed expert knowledge, diagnostic and clinical skills to manage patients presenting with emergency and urgent care needs.
• Provide expert care and operational leadership ensuring high standards of practice and quality of care to patients.
• Line manage a team of emergency nurse/care practitioners/advanced clinical practitioners including supervision, recruitment, appraisals, sickness management, disciplinary, grievance and performance monitoring.
• Ensure the delivery of safe and effective services that are responsive to the changing needs of the local population and sustainable over time.
• Facilitate stakeholder engagement to negotiate, influence and develop effective partnerships to support transformation of clinical pathways.
• Accountable for leading various change management projects and programmes in line with service wide improvement and transformation.
• Act as the patients advocate, supporting them to participate in and influence decisions concerning their care.

About us

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.

Details Date posted

23 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£70,396 to £80,837 a year Per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

337-NP-8922MS

Job locations

Northwick Park Hospital

Watford Rd

Harrow

HA1 3UJ

Job description Job responsibilities

To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.

Job description Job responsibilities

To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification Education and Qualifications Essential

• First Level Registered Nurse/First level Health Care Registered Paramedic
• Masters Degree/Advanced Nurse/Clinical Practitioner qualification or working towards.
• ENP Qualification
• Teaching and Assessing Certificate

Desirable

• Leadership and Management Qualification

Knowledge and Experience Essential

• Experience leading and managing clinical teams
• Experience of setting up and running nurse led services
• Experience of mentoring and developing staff
• Budgetary management

Desirable

• Knowledge of change management

Skills, Abilities and Attributes Essential

• Highly effective communication, facilitation and negotiation skills
• High level of clinical skills within urgent and emergency care
• Ability to analyze and interpret data for the purpose of performance management and service improvement

Person Specification Education and Qualifications Essential

• First Level Registered Nurse/First level Health Care Registered Paramedic
• Masters Degree/Advanced Nurse/Clinical Practitioner qualification or working towards.
• ENP Qualification
• Teaching and Assessing Certificate

Desirable

• Leadership and Management Qualification

Knowledge and Experience Essential

• Experience leading and managing clinical teams
• Experience of setting up and running nurse led services
• Experience of mentoring and developing staff
• Budgetary management

Desirable

• Knowledge of change management

Skills, Abilities and Attributes Essential

• Highly effective communication, facilitation and negotiation skills
• High level of clinical skills within urgent and emergency care
• Ability to analyze and interpret data for the purpose of performance management and service improvement

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information 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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details Employer name

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

Address

Northwick Park Hospital

Watford Rd

Harrow

HA1 3UJ

Employer's website

https://www.lnwh.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details Employer name

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

Address

Northwick Park Hospital

Watford Rd

Harrow

HA1 3UJ

Employer's website

https://www.lnwh.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)