Nurse Practitioner in317 Regent Point in317 Regent Point PUBLISHED 9 DEC 2023

• 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.
• To work towards the role of an independent nurse practitioner, contributing towards the delivery of a quality service matching clinical need to available resources within the focus of specialist nursing practice:o To ensure that the patient is the central focus of a streamlined patient journey ensuring optimal quality of care.o Will provide a prompt response to calls from colleagues, prioritising importance and clinical need.o Supports the clinical team to manage a defined caseload, activity to include assessment, investigation, diagnosis and treatment within defined protocols and training.o Provide immediate care management of patient including communication of plan to patients and significant others.o Review and refer to appropriate person, e.g. AHP, resident medical staff, specialist registrar or critical care outreach team.o Liaises with Patient Services Coordinator.o Communicate within multidisciplinary team, ward/departmental staff and/or out of hours team.o Contributes to specialist education and training to ward departmental 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.

This is a unique opportunity to join a team of nurses and nurse practitioners to support a defined caseload of patients residing in care homes throughout Newcastle.

No two days are the same, you need to be adaptable and flexible to provide safe, evidence based holistic care.

We provide planned face to face clinical care and planned assessments responding to the changing needs of our patients.

Our nurses are involved in advanced health care planning with patients and their families with the aim of avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions. We also support end of life palliative care patients and patients with complex, long term conditions.

We work alongside members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team, supporting the linked GP's on weekly ward rounds, and the wider community teams. The team facilitates a weekly virtual Geriatrician M.D .T meeting with patients referred by health care professionals throughout the community.

We support a team of community nurses offering support and guidance.

The team also provides specialist advice and support to a range of qualified and non-qualified staff in the care home settings.

We are a dynamic team, working autonomously to assess patients who present with an acute clinical need and ensure patients with long term conditions are receiving appropriate care.

• Interview date: 7 October 2024
• 20 hours/week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.

• Essential nursing skills ( inc catheter care, wound care, end of life care, bladder scanning, phlebotomy).
• Complete discharge reviews.
• Complete Comprehensive Baseline Assessments.
• Create and implement Emergency Health Care Plans with patients and their families.
• Assist the GP with the weekly ward round in the care home.
• New assessments, reassessments and reviews following hospital discharge.