Advanced Nurse Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 26/08/2026
- Closes
- 09/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for an experienced Advanced Nurse Practitioner to work within the Urgent Community Response Service. You will deliver high-level clinical assessments and reviews to patients in their own homes to prevent hospital admissions. The role involves working as part of a multidisciplinary team, monitoring care standards, and providing clinical leadership. You will be expected to work a seven-day week shift pattern, including weekends and bank holidays, with a focus on days and afters.
Key responsibilities
- Deliver safe and effective nursing practice across Neighbourhood Teams, ensuring a 2-hour response to crisis call outs.
- Work as part of the multi-disciplinary urgent community response service to support unwell patients in domiciliary care homes and their own homes.
- Undertake face-to-face assessment, diagnosis and treatment for community patients to prevent hospital admission.
- Ensure clinical systems are in place to support and monitor practice and performance and support the Clinical Team Leader.
- Hold accountability for all service user allocations across the Crisis 2 hour nursing pathway and share responsibility for clinical caseload management.
- Provide trust wide leadership and support within your own discipline or urgent crisis response.
Essential criteria
- To be willing to undertake post graduate training to further skills, knowledge, and expertise
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
- Clinical Supervision training and experience
Desirable criteria
- Moving and Handling training
- Positive Behaviour Management Training
- Specialist training in areas relevant to the patient group, e.g. Long Term conditions, minor illness, minor ailments and injuries.
- Relevant qualification Community Nursing Management training.
- Experience at senior level and ability to demonstrate development of advanced leadership and management skills.
- Experience of providing nursing services to patients in community settings.
- Experience of working with individuals with complex health needs and behaviours that challenge.
- Experience of managing and assessing risk whilst working independently.
- Experience of working in a multi- disciplinary environment.
- Experience of Nurse-led triage
- Work with individuals from diverse ethnic backgrounds.
- Special Knowledge/Skills
- Evidence of a wide range of clinical skills, abilities, and experience.
- Understanding of the specific health needs of people with complex nursing needs.
- Awareness of current philosophies and legislation relating to community nursing / urgent community response pathways.
- Knowledge and understanding of current government legislation and NHS policy.
- Awareness of up-to-date nursing practices.
- Ability to lead and motivate a team of staff.
- Ability to work within budget frameworks.
- Ability to self-motivate and work independently.
- Ability to organise team and delegate appropriately.
- Ability to manage caseloads on short- and longer-term basis.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and negotiation skills.
- Able to direct junior staff and students as appropriate.
- Ability to represent the service in the absence of senior managers.
- Effective time management.
- Good communication skills and can adapt working practices to meet the cross-section of society.
- Flexibility.
- Good team worker.
- Reliable and caring.
- Able to work unsupervised.
- Knowledge and understanding of cultural and diversity issues.
- Able to demonstrate evidence-based practice.
- Experience of service improvement and change management
- RGN
- Relevant Teaching Qualification
- Postgraduate study to Masters Level or equivalent experience in a field related to Nursing
- Current NMC Registration
- Advanced Physical Assessment and Consultation Skills (APACS) qualification
- Nurse Independent Prescriber V300 Prescribing course
- Personal Attributes
- A Current driving licence and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability)
- Ability to work flexibly including weekend, evening and Bank Holiday working.
- Physical Attributes
- Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post.
- A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).
- Training
- To be willing to undertake post graduate training to further skills, knowledge, and expertise
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
- Clinical Supervision training and experience
- Moving and Handling training
- Positive Behaviour Management Training
- Specialist training in areas relevant to the patient group, e.g. Long Term conditions, minor illness, minor ailments and injuries.
- Relevant qualification Community Nursing Management training.
- Experience at senior level and ability to demonstrate development of advanced leadership and management skills.
- Experience of providing nursing services to patients in community settings.
- Experience of working with individuals with complex health needs and behaviours that challenge.
- Experience of managing and assessing risk whilst working independently.
- Experience of working in a multi- disciplinary environment.
- Experience of Nurse-led triage
- Work with individuals from diverse ethnic backgrounds.
- Special Knowledge/Skills
- Evid
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY
Are
you looking to progress your career? We are looking for an experienced nurse to
work within our Urgent Community Response Service (UCR)
You
will:
Work as an advanced
Nurse delivering high level clinical assessments & reviews to patients in
their own home, implementing a comprehensive plan of care to prevent
unnecessary hospital admissions
Involved in the delivery
of care for patients as part of ongoing developments including UCR response
standards & out of hours provision, supporting virtual ward patients
Work as part of a wider
MDT of AHPs, specialist nurses, primary care, acute & social care
colleagues
Monitor & improve
standards of care through supervision, clinical audit, evidence-based practice,
learning & development, & provision of clinical leadership
You
will be expected to work across a seven-day week shift pattern including
weekends & bank holidays
The
shift pattern predominantly includes days & afters, but you may be required
to work occasional nights
You will
need to be able to travel independently between sites & to patients homes
All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to
have their up-to-date flu vaccination to protect staff and patients.
Main duties of the job
The successful
candidate will:
Be
an experience nurse, have completed the Nurse Prescriber course & Advanced
Phys
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