Job summary
- Main area
- Urgent and Emergency Medicine
- Grade
- Band 8C
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-MIC-1810
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trustwide
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £85,431 - £97,148 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Nurse
Band 8C
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job 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.
Main duties of the job
- 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.
Working for our organisation
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 include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including 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. .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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.
Person specification
Education/ qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse/Registered Registered AHP
- Further professional studies e.g. emergency nurse of paediatric emergency nursing
- ALS/ATNC/TNCC/APLS/EPLS
- MSc Advanced Clinical Practice
- Non-medical prescriber
- Evidence of credentialing with RCEM or actively working towards
Desirable criteria
- ALS/ATNC/APLS instructor
- Relevant teaching qualification/equivalent experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Working autonomously in advanced clinical practice
- Leadership role in urgent and emergency care
- Evidence of service improvement
- Evidence of delivering education at a local and national leave
- Evidence of participation in research, audit and service evaluation
- Evidence of workforce, practice development and teaching
- Awareness and understanding of current health issues, and to demonstrate an excellent understanding of recent initiatives within UEM
- Experience of leading patient safety learning response investigations
Skills/knowledge/ abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to organise and manage day to day departmental activities and those of large MDT’s within this
- Team building and working skills, able to lead a team to achieve results
- Understanding the issues pertaining to change management
- Understanding the issues pertaining to clinical risk management
- Ability to utilise research in clinical practice
- Problem solving skills – able to respond to unexpected issues and provide first line response and to identify appropriate sources of secondary support
- Knowledge of quality, standard setting, benchmarking and audit alongside a working knowledge of clinical governance and its implementation
- Ability to articulate effectively with advanced written and verbal communication skills and ability to present at local and national level. Clear, concise written and verbal reporting skills
- Computer literacy
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Emma Tippins
- Job title
- Lead Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
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