Advanced Nurse Practitioner / Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Job overview

Join our Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) / Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) team and play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care across Cardiology and Cardiac Sciences services.

This exciting opportunity is open to both Registered Nurses with NMC registration and Allied Health Professionals with HCPC registration, offering the chance to work at an advanced level of clinical practice within one of the UK's leading specialist cardiac centres. You will be at the forefront of patient assessment, diagnosis, treatment and care coordination, helping to ensure patients receive safe, effective and timely care throughout their cardiac journey.

In this role, you will autonomously assess, diagnose and manage patients across a wide range of cardiac pathways, including elective admissions, emergency admissions, transfers from referring hospitals and step-down patients from critical care. You will undertake advanced clinical assessment, formulate management plans, request and interpret diagnostic investigations, and prescribe medications within your scope of practice.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and adaptable healthcare professional with excellent clinical assessment, communication and decision-making skills. You should be committed to delivering high-quality patient care, working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams and continually developing your advanced clinical practice.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will be a registered Nurse Practitioner with NMC registration or an Allied Health Professional with HCPC registration. They will work autonomously and collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team to assess, diagnose, treat and manage patients across Cardiology and Cardiac Sciences services.
• The post holder will hold the Bed Manager bleep, coordinating patient flow across Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Services. This includes facilitating timely admissions, transfers, repatriations and discharges, ensuring effective utilisation of specialist cardiac beds, and working closely with site teams, consultants, referring hospitals and multidisciplinary colleagues to optimise capacity and support safe, efficient patient care pathways.
• The post holder will be responsible for managing admissions, transfers, discharges and step-down patients from critical care areas. They will undertake advanced clinical assessment, request and interpret investigations, prescribe medications, formulate treatment plans and facilitate safe and timely discharge.
• The role is pivotal in maintaining patient flow across the cardiac pathway, supporting transfers from referring hospitals and ensuring patients receive high-quality, evidence-based care throughout their admission and follow-up.

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.

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.