Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) / Trainee ANP - Cardiac
Band 7/8a
- Cardiovascular Care Services L3
- Band 7/8a
- Permanent
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- 328-CARDIO-7408279
- The James Cook University Hospital
- Middlesbrough
- £47,810 - £62,682 per annum
- Yearly
- 18/11/2025 23:59
Job overview
Appointment to band 7 or 8a is dependent upon Skills, experience, knowledge and qualifications and training (please view both job descriptions and person specifications attached to the vacancy.
If appointed as band 7, you would follow the training programme and when full competent, would move to band 8a.
The Cardiac Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) provides expert clinical care across outpatient, ward, and high dependency settings. Working autonomously within the four pillars of advanced practice—clinical, leadership, education, and research—the ANP performs advanced assessments, makes complex clinical decisions, initiates treatments, and leads on discharge planning.
They act as a visible clinical leader, role model, and advocate for evidence-based, compassionate care, requiring qualifications aligned with the Health Education England advanced practice framework, including non-medical prescribing.
Main duties of the job
The Cardiac Advanced Nurse Practitioner works autonomously across outpatient, ward, and high dependency settings to deliver expert clinical care. They perform advanced assessments, initiate investigations, diagnose, prescribe, and manage treatment plans, supporting early discharge and preventing readmission.
Acting as a clinical leader, they provide specialist advice to patients, carers, and multidisciplinary teams, while maintaining up-to-date knowledge to influence practice and develop care pathways. Their role integrates clinical expertise with leadership, education, and research to ensure high standards of patient care.
Working for our organisation
We support the Making Every Contact Count approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:
• Your Leadership Impact
• Leading your Team to Success
• Leading Into the Future
• Service Improvement for Beginners
• Developing your Service Improvement Skills
• Lean Practitioner
The leadership and improvement programme aims to:
• Explore leadership within the NHS
• Promote Trust values and behaviours
• Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills
• Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.
After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Band 7 - Qualifications & Training
Essential criteria
- • NMC level 1 registration
- • First level Degree
- • Teaching certificate relevant to Mentoring in Nursing
- • Clinic Skills Level 3 or ability to achieve within an agreed time frame
- • Non-Medical Prescribing Qualification – master’s degree module or ability to work towards within an agreed time frame
- • Post registration experience working at a higher level within a speciality area
- • ILS provider
Band 7 - Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- • Advanced interpersonal and communication skills
- • Excellent clinical skills
- • Excellent problem solving and assessment skills
Band 7 - Experiencre
Essential criteria
- • Post registration experience working at a higher level within a speciality area
Band 8 - Qualifications & Training
Essential criteria
- • NMC level 1 registration
- • Relevant Masters with clinical focus
- • Specialist qualification relevant to area of practice
- • Independent prescribing
- • Clinical assessment skills
- • Teaching certificate
Band 8 - Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- • Extended scope of practice including non-medical prescribing
- • Explaining possible diagnoses and unfavourable test results using empathy, knowledge and experience to assess and alleviate the psychosocial distress including referring to other agencies or disciplines as appropriate
- • Core member of the multidisciplinary team providing specialist knowledge, leadership and advice. Supporting the Consultant body, registrars and doctors in training in all aspects of patient centred care
- • Excellent Knowledge of cardiac anatomy, pathophysiology and surgical operations and procedures
- • Advanced knowledge of audit/research and evidence of application
- • Physical examination
- • Clinical history taking skills
- • ILS/ALS and recognising the deteriorating patient
- • Complex wound management
- • Minor surgical wound procedures (debridement)
Band 8 - Experience
Essential criteria
- • Significant experience of working in a cardiac surgery
- • Experience in leading a team
- • Current teaching and presentation experience
- • Audit skills and evidence of project management
- • Excellent knowledge of NICE / other relevant guidelines relevant to area of clinical practice
Applicant requirements
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jo Fewtrell
- Job title
- Advanced Nurse Practitioner
- Email address
- jo.fewtrell@nhs.net
- Telephone number
- 01642 854532
- Additional information
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Joanne Fewtrell - Advanced Nurse Practitioner jo.fewtrell@nhs.net
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