Emergency Nurse Practitioner / Extended Scope Practitioner (ENP/ESP) – Southend
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.
Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.
We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.
For more information on this varied and rewarding role, please see the attached Job Description.
We look forward to your application!
Please be aware that we reserve the right to close the vacancy early should a high number of applications be received.
