Job summaryAn exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced senior Health Care Professional to join our dynamic Night Nurse Practitioner (NNP) team at Wexham park hospital, facilitating clinical expertise and collaborative working throughout the trust.
As a Night Nurse Practitioner (NNP), you will work as a key part of the Hospital at Night (H@N) team, supporting the H@N service which runs 19:30 to 07:30, 7 days a week. NNP's are expected to offer a broad spectrum of experience, knowledge, and advanced nursing skills. The role has been devised to deliver multi-professional models of service delivery across the trust, emphasising multi-professional working to generate sustainable solutions to increasing workforce planning challenges.
NNP's are versatile healthcare professionals, managing complex and holistic clinical care for their patients across a variety of clinical areas. Their level of practice is characterised by high levels of autonomous decision making including the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients with complex multi-dimensional problems. Decisions are made using expert knowledge and skills, including the authority to refer, admit and discharge within appropriate clinical areas.
This opportunity is for a permanent role, with a vacancy within the team arising from 27/09/2026 - this being the ideal start date for the successful candidate.
Main duties of the jobThe 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.
About usThere's never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country's largest and most respected hospital trusts - We have three main hospitals: Frimley Park in Frimley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area. We also run outpatient clinics and diagnostic services from Aldershot, Farnham, Fleet, Windsor, Maidenhead, Bracknell and Chalfont St Peter.
Recently we have invested £150m in new facilities to create the best environments for our patients and staff. Our projects include new state-of-the-art Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park and a newly planned care hospital in Ascot.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other. So whether you use our services or are just visiting you can expect us to be Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you'll feel at home at Frimley Health. Whether you want to broaden your expertise, strengthen your skills or make the move into management. It's one of the reasons our staff consistently rate us among the best places to work.
Person SpecificationQualificationsEssential- RGN/Diploma
- Valid NMC registration
- Acute Care/Critical care/Coronary care/Emergency Care Course level 6/7
- Good standards of numeracy and literacy
- ALS trained
- Significant experience at band 6 within an acute setting
Desirable- Willingness to undertake masters
- Physical assessment Module
- Non Medical Prescribing Module
- Studied at level 7
- ACP MSc
- ALS/ ILS instructor
- Willingness to undertake NMP module
ExperienceEssential- Critical Care/Emergency Care/Intensive Care/Coronary care
- Relevant Experience post qualification
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).