Nurse Practitioner

+ 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., + 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 hour's team.
o Contributes to specialist education and training to ward departmental staff, nursing and medical students.
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.
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 month's pay.
Possession of a full UK driving license and use of a car for work purposes is essential to the role.
Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form
All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.
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 month's pay.
Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.

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.

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 2 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team., 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.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust