Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Job overview

The Advanced Nurse/Practitioner will promote the vision and values of East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, leading by example and ensuring that they demonstrate those values in their leadership behaviours and how we support our teams and deliver our services

The Advanced Nurse/Practitioner will be able to provide expert professional advice and develops and implements specialist care

The Advanced Nurse/Practitioner will ensure clinical excellence.

The Advanced Nurse/Practitioner provides specialist education and training to staff, students, carers and patients and develops educational pathways.

The Advanced Nurse Practitioner undertakes research and leads clinical audits in own specialist area and contributes to Trust wide research programmes

Line management responsibilities will be dependent upon role and specialist area of work

Main duties of the job

The Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) plays a pivotal role in delivering advanced clinical, professional, and operational leadership across the Urgent Community Response (UCR) and Virtual Ward services. This role is critical to ensuring safe, responsive, and evidence-based care for patients in their own homes, care settings, or within intermediate care environments.

Working autonomously within their professional scope, the ANP will carry out complex assessments, make diagnostic decisions, prescribe treatments, and coordinate care, while also supporting the wider multidisciplinary team. They are instrumental in delivering national and local priorities, including admission avoidance, early supported discharge, and virtual ward initiatives.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Deliver advanced assessments, diagnostics, prescribing, and care planning for complex patients.
• Act as a senior clinical leader and role model; support team performance and lead MDTs.
• Mentor junior staff, contribute to training plans, support induction and professional development.
• Drive incident reviews, quality audits, and improvement plans; support compliance with CQC and national standards.
• Contribute to service transformation initiatives, digital innovations, and business case delivery.
• Ensure safe rostering, resource allocation, and delivery of KPIs linked to patient flow and urgent care access.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description attached.

If you have any questions about this position please do not hesitate to contact us.