Nurse Practitioner in317 Trustwide in317 Trustwide PUBLISHED MON 27 JAN 2025

We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Nurse Practitioner to join the Evening and Night Nursing Service which is part of our Urgent Community Response Team based at Regent Point in Newcastle. This is an exciting opportunity to join an innovative team of friendly, experienced and professional staff who provide care for patients in their own homes and care homes out of hours. The team provides predominantly complex care to palliative and end of life patients and families from 5pm-8am, also responding to other urgent care needs under the national 2 hour urgent care response requirements.

The individual requires an accredited advanced clinical skills/history taking and physical assessment qualification and also ideally possess a non-medical prescribing course or the willingness to undertake this.

You should be able to work autonomously as well as of part of a wider team, to provide the highest quality care for this complex, specialised client group. Experience/knowledge of mental capacity and safeguarding procedures is essential. The successful candidate will be required to mentor staff and provide supervision for staff undertaking clinical skills qualification, non-medical prescribing. In working with the existing Band 7s in the team there are opportunities to develop your leadership and staff management skills.

• Interview Date: 14 February 2025
• 30 Hours/Week - combination of evening and night shifts

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

• To deliver a quality of service matching clinical need to available resources within the focus of specialist nursing practice
• To ensure that the patient is the central focus of a streamlined patient journey ensuring optimal quality of care.
• Working as a nurse practitioner, provide a prompt response to calls from colleagues, prioritising importance and clinical need.
• Manage own caseload to include assessment, investigation, diagnosis and treatment within defined parameters and training.
• Provide immediate care management of patient including communication of plan to patients and significant others.
• Review and refer to appropriate person/teams
• Communicate within multidisciplinary team, ward/departmental staff and/or out of hours team.
• Provide education and training to departmental nursing staff, nursing students.

About us

It is essential that the successful candidates hold full UK driving licences and have access to a suitable vehicle for work purposes.

Informal visits are encouraged.

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust define a nurse practitioner as a qualified nurse where the primary purpose of role is to perform a specific technological procedure/s e.g. endoscopy, ultrasound in a defined patient group and/or advanced patient assessment and clinical decision making in a broad patient group e.g. H@N, pre assessment.

To deliver a quality of service matching clinical need to available resources within the focus of specialist nursing practice:

• To ensure that the patient is the central focus of a streamlined patient journey ensuring optimal quality of care.
• Working as a nurse practitioner, provide a prompt response to calls from colleagues, prioritising importance and clinical need.
• Manage own caseload to include assessment, investigation, diagnosis and treatment within defined parameters and training.
• Provide immediate care management of patient including communication of plan to patients and significant others.
• Review and refer to appropriate person, e.g. AHP, resident medical staff, specialist registrar or critical care outreach team.
• Liaising with Patient Services Coordinator where necessary.
• Communicate within multidisciplinary team, ward/departmental staff and/or out of hours team.
• Provide specialist education and training to departmental nursing staff, nursing and medical students.

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first months pay.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.