Surgical Advanced Nurse Practitioner - ENT, Maxfax and Plastics (SNAP)

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Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in London is seeking a Surgical Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join their multidisciplinary team. This permanent role involves providing high-quality patient care in an emergency setting, leading assessments, performing surgical procedures, and working closely with a team of ACPs. Candidates should possess an MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice and significant experience in emergency departments.

Qualifications

• Completed MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice.
• Experience in ED as a Nurse Practitioner or paramedic.
• Five years speciality experience required.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical assessments and minor surgical procedures.
• Collaborate with ACPs; manage complex surgical cases.
• Make independent clinical decisions.

Skills

Advanced Clinical Assessment Skills

Non-Medical Prescribing

Independently Making Clinical Decisions

Education

MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice

Non-Medical Prescribing Qualification

Job description

Main area Surgical Advanced Nurse Practitioner for ENT, Maxfax and Plastics (SNAP) Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 200-6968049-GO-ND-B

Employer St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site St Georges Site Town London Salary £61,927 - £68,676 per annum inc HCAS (pro-rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 26/06/2025 23:59

Surgical Advanced Nurse Practitioner - ENT, Maxfax and Plastics (SNAP)

Band 8a

Job overview

It’s 8pm at St George’s Hospital.

You’ve just taken handover from the day team when your pager buzzes, a patient with severe facial trauma is inbound by air. While preparing for their arrival, you're also alerted to a potential airway emergency coming through ED. As the Advanced Clinical Practitioner for Maxfax tonight, you're first on scene, leading assessments, requesting urgent imaging, and performing minor surgical procedures.

You’re not alone. Two other ACPs are on shift, each covering their own surgical specialty. Together, you collaborate, support one another, and hand over as a team at the end of your shift. You’ll assess patients, order investigations, prescribe treatment, and make clinical decisions - independently.

This is what a night looks like in our ENT, Maxfax and Plastics ACP team: complex cases, rapid decision-making, and the opportunity to work at the top of your game.

Complex surgical cases, minor procedures, and the chance to expand your skills in a close-knit, forward-thinking team - if that sounds like the next step in your career, we’d love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

This role places you at the heart of advanced clinical practice within ENT, Maxfax and Plastics. You’ll be part of a team of six ACPs providing overnight cover and playing a key role in assessing and managing patients arriving in the emergency department.

You’ll need to have:

• Completed your MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice
• Hold a non-medical prescribing qualification
• Be confident in requesting and interpreting diagnostics as well as performing clinical procedures within your scope

Please note: To be considered for this role, you must have experience working in an ED or as a Nurse Practitioner, or paramedic with exposure to acute surgical patients. While this is a night-shift position, your first six months will be spent working alongside the doctors during daytime hours as part of your induction and training period.

What makes this role different?

• Autonomy and variety
  • You’ll be the first to assess patients referred overnight — from airway emergencies to complex trauma. You’ll lead clinical decisions, carry out interventions, and work closely with on-call teams. No two nights are ever the same.
• A great ACP team
  • Each night, you’ll work alongside two other ACPs. We support each other, collaborate across specialties, and maintain a strong culture of communication and trust

Working for our organisation

• As one of London’s largest teaching hospitals and a regional specialist centre, we treat some of the most complex cases in the region. We have a helipad, hyper-acute stroke and cardiac services, and are one of the city’s four major trauma centres

We know starting a new role at a new hospital can feel daunting, but from day one, you’ll be fully supported. That support goes beyond your day-to-day responsibilities. We’re committed to your development, and open to new ideas.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Specialty requirements

ENT:

Throat infections: Tonsillitis/quinsy and epiglottitis

Foreign body in ear, nose or throat

Ear infection

Elective head/neck admission for surgery

PLASTICS:

Hand trauma/infections

Wound assessment and management

MAX FAX:

Dental infections

Infected wounds

Person specification

• Registered clinical professional
• MSc level in Advanced Clinical Practice or equivalent (Minimum PGDip)
• Independent or supplementary non-medical prescriber (where relevant)
• 7 years post-registration experience, of which at least 5 years includes speciality experience
• Demonstration of experience in all four pillars of advanced clinical practice (clinical practice, leadership and management, research, education)
• Participation in audit and research
• Completed portfolio of supervised practice in speciality
• Certified speciality courses
• Relevant NHS leadership qualification or working towards
• Experience as clinical Leader
• Experience in an autonomous practice role
• Previous experience in an advanced practice role
• Experience of service development
• NMC registered Independent prescriber or meets criteria to undertake within 6 months of appointment.
• Advanced clinical assessment skills/ANP qualifitcation
• Experience of running research and audit programmes
• Completed a recognized leadership development programme

We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these. More information on the vision and values of St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is attached below.

Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email.

If you are appointed to the post, as part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The document/s you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features. These features will include:

- The machine readable zone
- An ultra violet image
- An infra red image

As part of your pre-employment checks, we will also be required to obtain satisfactory, written references. Please ensure that the referee details which you provide on your application form are correct. We require at least one written reference from your current or most recent line manager. We are only able to accept references from a professional work email address.

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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Camille Penales Job title Surgical Matron Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 02087252640 Additional information

Camille Penales, Surgical Matron, 02087252640