# Surgical Advanced Nurse Practitioner - ENT, Maxfax and Plastics (SNAP) > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/surgical-advanced-nurse-practitioner-ent-maxfax-and-plastics-snap/a78471fe-80c9-418b-a7f8-252753b0eedd - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/surgical-advanced-nurse-practitioner-ent-maxfax-and-plastics-snap/a78471fe-80c9-418b-a7f8-252753b0eedd.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse practitioner - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,274 - £73,496 per annum inc HCAS (pro-rata) - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-30T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-16T07:13:09.183Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/St_Georges_University_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Surgical_Advanced_Nurse_Practitioner_ENT_Maxfax_Plastics_SNAP/Surgical_Advanced_Nurse_Practitioner_ENT_Maxfax_Plastics_SNAP-v8159434 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8159434?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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 ## Person Specification ### Desirable **Desirable** - NMC registered Independent prescriber or meets criteria to undertake within 6 months of appointment. - Previous specialist nursing/Hospital at night experience - Advanced clinical assessment skills/ANP qualifitcation - Experience of running research and audit programmes - Completed a recognized leadership development programme ### Essential **Essential** - Registered clinical professional - MSc level in Advanced Clinical Practice or equivalent (Minimum PGDip) - Independent or supplementary non-medical prescriber (where relevant) - 7 years post-registration experience, of which at least 5 years includes speciality experience - Demonstration of experience in all four pillars of advanced clinical practice (clinical practice, leadership and management, research, education) - Participation in audit and research **Desirable** - Completed portfolio of supervised practice in speciality - Certified speciality courses - Relevant NHS leadership qualification or working towards - Experience as clinical Leader - Experience in an autonomous practice role - Previous experience in an advanced practice role - Experience of service development ## Documents - [ai toolkit for candidates (pdf, 1.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2411) - [swl ai toolkit for candidates (pdf, 1.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3045) - [snap jd ent, maxfax and plastics (pdf, 432.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10460026) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.