Surgical Advanced Nurse Practitioner - ENT, Maxfax and Plastics (SNAP)

Job overview

At St George’s Hospital, no two nights are ever quite the same. As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner  within our ENT, Maxillofacial and Plastics team, you’ll play a key role in assessing and managing complex surgical cases in a supportive and collaborative environment.

Your shift might begin with a patient arriving via air ambulance with facial trauma, or a potential airway emergency presenting in ED.

As one of our ACPs, you’ll take the lead on assessments, request urgent imaging, and carry out minor surgical procedures. You’ll make independent clinical decisions and prescribe treatment  with the support of a wider multidisciplinary team.

Working alongside you are two other experienced ACPs, each covering their own specialty. You’ll share knowledge, provide mutual support, and hand over as a team at the end of your shift.

This role offers variety, challenge and the chance to work at the top of your scope. From minor procedures to major trauma, you’ll develop your clinical expertise in a team that values innovation, professional growth, and high-quality patient care.

Main duties of the job

This role places you at the heart of advanced clinical practice within ENT, Maxfax and Plastics. You’ll be part of a team of six ACPs providing overnight cover and playing a key role in assessing and managing patients arriving in the emergency department.

You’ll need to have:

• Completed your MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice
• Hold a non-medical prescribing qualification
• Be confident in requesting and interpreting diagnostics as well as performing clinical procedures within your scope

Please note: To be considered for this role, you must have experience working in an ED or as a Nurse Practitioner, or paramedic with exposure to acute surgical patients. While this is a night-shift position, your first six months will be spent working alongside the doctors during daytime hours as part of your induction and training period.

What makes this role different?

Variety

• You’ll be the first to assess patients referred overnight — from airway emergencies to complex trauma. You’ll make clinical decisions, carry out interventions, and work closely with on-call team

A great ACP team

• Each night, you’ll work alongside two other ACPs. We support each other, collaborate across specialties, and maintain a strong culture of communication and trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

***Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document, which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification***Specialty requirements

ENT:

Throat infections: Tonsillitis/quinsy and epiglottitis

Foreign body in ear, nose or throat

Ear infection

Head/neck trauma

Elective head/neck admission for surgery

PLASTICS:

Hand trauma/infections

Wound assessment and management

MAX FAX:

Facial trauma (facial fractures)

Dental infections

Infected wounds