Advanced Nurse Practitioner & Clinical Nurse Lead

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join the Ophthalmology service at Whipps Cross Hospital as Clinical Nurse Lead within the Eye Treatment Centre. The service includes a busy and dynamic Eye Casualty, delivering urgent and emergency ophthalmic care to a diverse patient population.

The post holder will play a pivotal role in delivering and leading high-quality, patient-centred care within the Eye Casualty Department. You will provide expert autonomous assessment, diagnosis and treatment for a wide range of urgent ophthalmic conditions, while improving patient flow across the service.

You will work closely with the Matron, Senior Nurse, Consultants, and multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe, effective, and compassionate care. You will lead the casualty nursing and ENP team day-to-day, supporting staff development, service improvement, and maintaining high standards of clinical practice.

This role offers an excellent opportunity for an advanced practitioner with significant ophthalmology experience to further develop leadership skills while continuing hands-on clinical practice., The Lead Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) provides expert, autonomous clinical assessment, diagnosis and treatment for patients presenting with urgent and emergency ophthalmic conditions at the Eye Treatment Centre. The role strengthens same-day access to specialist care, improves patient flow, and ensures timely, safe and compassionate treatment in line with Barts Health's WeCare values.

The postholder will use advanced clinical skills, specialist ophthalmic knowledge and independent prescribing to deliver high-quality patient-centred care, while contributing to service improvement, education, workforce development and leadership across the ophthalmology emergency pathway.

In addition to advanced clinical practice, the postholder will provide nursing leadership within the Eye Casualty team. This includes day-to-day staff coordination, visible leadership, contribution to rostering, staff supervision, and promoting a positive, safe and compassionate working environment. The ANP will act as the senior clinical nurse in the department, working closely with the Senior Nurse and Matron to support staff wellbeing, team performance and continuous improvement of care standards.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.