Job summary
- Main area
- Advanced Nurse Practitioner
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 246-CEN7367577
- Employer
- Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Rollesby Ward
- Town
- Norwich
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 gross per annum (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Nurse Practitioner
Band 8a
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience
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Job overview
We are thrilled to announce an exciting opportunity for an experienced and dedicated Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join our team on Rollesby Ward, a female psychiatric intensive care unit at Hellesdon Hospital on a part time basis (31 hours per week).
As an Advanced Nurse Practitioner, you will provide comprehensive care for service users, from initial history taking and clinical assessment to diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of care. You will demonstrate safe clinical decision-making and expert care, including assessment and diagnostic skills, for service users in a mental health setting. Your critical thinking in the clinical decision-making process will be essential as you work with the medical team to meet the needs of the service users and provide clinical professional nurse leadership to the nursing team.
Main duties of the job
Key responsibilities include:
- Conduct thorough risk assessments and provide safe treatment and care.
- Assess, diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate interventions for service users with mental health diagnoses.
- Rapidly evaluate and modify care plans based on patient conditions and responses.
- Attend high-risk situations to provide management advice and clinical intervention.
- Prioritise health problems and initiate effective emergency care.
- Prescribe and review medication, integrating non-drug-based treatments into care management plans.
- Promote evidence-based care and support service users in adopting recovery strategies.
- Communicate effectively with service users, families, carers, and multidisciplinary teams.
- Maintain accurate records of health assessments and therapeutic interventions.
Working for our organisation
Our Trust is striving to ensure that staff have access to development opportunities, and you can benefit from this. In this role you will also support other staff to develop and learn, to ensure we have a highly skilled workforce who are happy in their roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RN Mental Health or General Nurse
- Educated to Master’s degree level in relevant subject area
- Recognised leadership qualification or equivalent experience
- Independent Prescribing qualification
- Post registration qualification in speciality
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in an acute setting
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Ben Jagger
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
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