Night Nurse Practitioner

Job overview

We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Night Nurse Practitioner (NNP) to join our dedicated Hospital at Night (H@N) team. This permanent opportunity has arisen due to a vacancy within the service, with an anticipated start date of end of September 2026.

As a key member of the H@N team, you will provide expert clinical leadership and advanced nursing practice across the Trust throughout the night, supporting a service that operates 7 days a week from 19:30 to 07:30.

The successful candidate will bring a broad range of clinical experience, advanced knowledge and highly developed nursing skills. As an autonomous practitioner, you will be responsible for the assessment, diagnosis, treatment and ongoing management of patients presenting with complex and multi-dimensional healthcare needs across a variety of clinical settings. Working collaboratively with medical, nursing and allied health professional colleagues, you will contribute to timely clinical decision-making and the delivery of high-quality patient care.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced advanced practitioner who thrives in a dynamic environment and is passionate about delivering excellent patient care whilst supporting the continued development of integrated, multi-professional healthcare services.

Main duties of the job

The NNP team works in partnership with both medical and surgical directorates out of hours and is at the forefront of clinical leadership, providing an array of advanced clinical skills and expertise.

As an NNP you will develop professional autonomous working, conducting comprehensive clinical assessments and examination, synthetizing clinical findings to aid clinical decision-making skills to formulate and implement appropriate treatment.

Please note this role does require cross-site working to the other acute site (Frimley park) for training and when required.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Single point of access for all hospital at night clinical tasks, ensuring optimal, safe, and effective patient care is delivered proficiently out of hours.
• Independently manage the H@N triaging system and understand H@N structure and teams’ capabilities to appropriately allocate jobs accordingly, maintaining fairness, safety, and efficiency.
• Work independently as an autonomous nurse practitioner undertaking comprehensive history & physical examination skills to support differential diagnosis.
• Order, interpret, and analyse new and historical results of tests/investigations.
• Acts on the results to confirm diagnosis and thereby optimise treatment and management outcomes.
• Applies high level decision-making and assessment skills to formulate appropriate differential diagnoses based on synthesis of clinical findings.
• Able to identify early on the acutely unwell deteriorating adult, facilitating early escalation and intervention to prevent further deterioration of the presenting illness using advanced clinical skills.
• Able to identify when and if patients need an escalation in care to the appropriate dependency environment and facilitates safe transfer of critically unwell patient in timely fashion using the correct processes and resources.
• Attends and leads in collaboration with the on-call medical registrar all NEWS calls and cardiac arrest emergencies as part of the emergency response team.
• Works closely with the junior doctors in providing consistent, high standards of care portraying strong leadership and demonstrating a proactive work ethic.