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Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Advanced Nurse Practitioner

The closing date is 10 August 2025

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Job summary

Do you want to improve our patient care and experience?

Do you enjoy developing nurses and our advance clinicians for the future?

Do you enjoy working as part of an MDT?

If you have answered yes then please apply for our exciting opportunity for an Advanced Nurse Practitioner to work within the Crisis and Resolution Home Treatment Team, based at Hellesdon Hospital.

Main duties of the job

The team will consist of a variety of highly skilled professionals including nursing, support staff, medical, psychology and occupational health colleagues. You will work closely with all of them to ensure the care we provide is not only outstanding but that the team is well developed and supported.

We would expect you to -

  • Act as a role model to what outstanding care should look like.
  • Support and mentor clinical staff to deliver person centred care.
  • Provide family and carers with assurance that their loved one is being supported and looked after.
  • Work within a supportive management team to improve patient journey through secondary care services.
  • Undertake clinical audits and screenings
  • Provide Line Managed Supervision, including in depth caseload reviews.
  • Supporting safe and effective discharges.
  • Providing medication reviews.
  • Undertaking assessments as and when required.
  • Supporting with 72 hour follow up.
  • Independently undertake complex prescribing reviews
  • Confidence in acute risk management
  • Provide clinical leadership to the team

About us

Benefits

Included with this role are:

  • NHS pension
  • a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
  • career progression
  • starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
  • staff physio service
  • gym membership

NHS discounts and many more.

Details

Date posted

29 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£55,690 to £62,682 a year Pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

246-CEN7326740

Job locations

Hellesdon Hospital

Drayton High Rd

Norwich

NR6 5BE


Job description

Job responsibilities

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.

Our service is responsive, and there is potential for flexible working hours within the role. This role will incorporate evidencing the role and how it benefits patient care in the community.

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!

Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs

* Previous applicants need not apply *

Job description

Job responsibilities

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.

Our service is responsive, and there is potential for flexible working hours within the role. This role will incorporate evidencing the role and how it benefits patient care in the community.

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!

Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs

* Previous applicants need not apply *

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • RN Mental Health or General Nurse
  • Post registration qualification in speciality Educated to Master's degree level in relevant subject area
  • Recognised leadership qualification or equivalent experience
  • Independent Prescribing qualification

Skills

Essential

  • Experience of working in an acute setting
  • Experience in managing complaints and quality assurance

Experience

Essential

  • Minimum 5 years post registration experience
  • Experience and knowledge of quality standard setting and audit
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • RN Mental Health or General Nurse
  • Post registration qualification in speciality Educated to Master's degree level in relevant subject area
  • Recognised leadership qualification or equivalent experience
  • Independent Prescribing qualification

Skills

Essential

  • Experience of working in an acute setting
  • Experience in managing complaints and quality assurance

Experience

Essential

  • Minimum 5 years post registration experience
  • Experience and knowledge of quality standard setting and audit

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

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Hellesdon Hospital

Drayton High Rd

Norwich

NR6 5BE


Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Hellesdon Hospital

Drayton High Rd

Norwich

NR6 5BE


Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Associate Director for Nursing

Nicola Rice

nicola.rice1@nsft.nhs.uk

07852771352

Details

Date posted

29 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£55,690 to £62,682 a year Pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

246-CEN7326740

Job locations

Hellesdon Hospital

Drayton High Rd

Norwich

NR6 5BE


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