Emergency Nurse Practitioner

Main area Emergency Nurse Practitioner Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (7 days per week from 0800am until midnight.) Job
-DoM-SO-9906

Employer Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Southend Town Westcliff On Sea Salary £49,387 Per Annum (Pro Rata for part time) Salary period Yearly Closing 12/07/2026 23:59 Interview date 21/07/2026

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute hospital provider in the Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS), which is a system of health and care partners working together for our local population.

Within Mid and South Essex there are 149 GP practices, operating from over 200 sites, forming 27 Primary Care Networks and one Ambulance Trust. There are also three main community and mental health service providers who work together through a community collaborative.

We collaborate with other valuable partners, including three Healthwatch organisations, nine voluntary and community sector organisations and three top tier local authorities, with seven district, borough and city councils, as well as our local universities.

We are seeking highly motivated and experienced Emergency Nurse Practitioners / Extended Scope Practitioners (ENP/ESP) to join our dynamic Emergency and Urgent Care team at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, Southend.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment, delivering high-quality, patient-centred care across a broad range of urgent and emergency presentations. You will use your advanced clinical skills to assess, diagnose, treat, and safely discharge patients, contributing to effective patient flow and service delivery.

We are looking for individuals with excellent communication, organisational, and clinical decision‑making skills, who can work confidently both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.

You will play a key role in supporting service development, enhancing patient experience, and maintaining high standards of care.

If you are a proactive and dedicated practitioner with a passion for emergency care and continuous professional development, we would welcome your application.

Work as a clinically autonomous practitioner delivering high‑quality, evidence‑based, person‑centred care to patients presenting with urgent and emergency conditions.

Independently assess, diagnose, treat and discharge patients within scope of practice, ensuring safe and effective clinical decision‑making.

Undertake initial patient assessments in the Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC), managing presentations such as wounds, sprains, fractures, minor head injuries and soft tissue injuries.

Manage an autonomous caseload, formulating working diagnoses for undifferentiated conditions and determining appropriate clinical pathways.

Order, interpret and act upon diagnostic investigations (including X‑rays), ensuring timely and safe patient outcomes.

Prescribe and administer medications in line with Patient Group Directions (PGDs), NICE guidance and Trust policy, including Independent Prescribing where qualified.

Maintain accurate, contemporaneous and legally compliant clinical documentation at all times.

Work collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team, contributing to clinical expertise, audit, quality improvement and service development, and support the Emergency Department during escalation or major incidents as required.

• NMC Registered Nurse OR Relevant HCPC Registration
• Advanced management of Minor injury/illness course
• Independent non‑medical prescribing
• Emergency Care Course

• Extensive post‑registration experience working within an Emergency Department
• Experience in ensuring standards are maintained
• Awareness of Clinical Governance issues
• ENP Experience
• Understanding of quality assurance process (i.e. complaints/audits)
• Experience of management of datix incident investigation

Please be aware as per the new Immigration guidelines we cannot sponsor candidates with a salary (full time or pro Rata) under the current minimum threshold.

Please note, the selection processes at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills, and you will be required to declare on your application if AI has been used before submitting your application.

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.