Nurse Practitioner

Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are seeking to recruit a highly motivated and enthusiastic Community Nurse Practitioner to come and work alongside colleagues in our Urgent Community Response/ Hospital Avoidance Team . The post supports community services to assess and manage patients with urgent community needs in their home or residential setting to avoid unnecessary GP house visits and hospital admission.,

• The Community Nurse Practitioner is responsible and accountable for the delivery of nursing care to a defined caseload by utilising team management and organisational skills. This will include triaging and clinical assessment of the patient either in their own home or a residential setting. The CNP will then depending on the patient's condition may refer to another service including GP/another Community Team or Hospital as required. They are also expected to provide leadership, management and clinical supervision to the community team.
• To engage in the assessment of individual, family and community health care needs in partnership with patients. Plan implement and evaluate health care programmes to meet identify need, within available resources referring to team members and other agencies as appropriate.
  
  Our staff oversee over 2 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
• Freeman Hospital
• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service
• Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS. We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.