Nurse Practitioner (Frailty Virtual Ward)

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a new, innovative and dynamic team within our expanding Urgent Community Response, Same Day Response and Virtual Wards Team. Working into this dynamic team in the community, we are looking for experienced and motivated Band 7 Advanced Nurse Practitioner who is passionate about service development and providing high standard of patient centred care. You will be working closely within a multidisciplinary team of staff including Doctors, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, and Physiotherapists, all of whom are committed to maintaining independence, promoting self-care and assisting patients in their usual place of residence. Oftentimes, this post therefore requires you to work autonomously, when working across the city into patients own homes.
+ Interview Date Thursday, 17 October 2024
+ 37 Hours 30 Minutes/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

Main duties of the job
The Team is comprised of three distinct teams; urgent community response, same day response team and frailty virtual ward The aim of our team is to prevent avoidable hospital admissions for all house bound/Care Home residents in Newcastle and there is an expectation that the successful candidates would work across these teams.
The urgent community response element provides urgent care to people in their homes which helps to avoid hospital admissions and enable people to live independently for longer. Through this teams, older people and adults with complex health needs who urgently need care, can get fast access to a range of health and social care professionals within two hours. This includes access to physiotherapy and occupational therapy, medication prescribing and reviews. Same Day Response operates in a similar way, responding to additional district nursing calls that come in throughout the day, visiting a wide variety of patients citywide., As an Advanced Nurse Practitioner, you will use your expert levels of clinical decision making through specialist assessment and interpretation of clinical information to support frail and elderly patients having an acute exacerbation of a frailty related condition or patients with an urgent care need. The role will therefore include proactively case managing patients requiring specialist frailty advice, addressing their unique unmet needs and improving their care coordination and well-being, as well as preventing an unplanned hospital admission with a short term intervention. In this role, you will be providing strong, professional leadership to enhance professional standards of care across the service, providing specialist advice and education on the specialty to support patients with complex health needs.
The successful candidate will be hardworking, reliable, able to use their initiative, and work flexibly to respond to the service needs, this includes working evenings, weekends and bank holidays. Leadership qualities are necessary to support both the service delivery, and staff support and work allocation.
The services which enable people to live independently for longer are operational 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. As a member of our multi-disciplinary team, you will work to meet the needs of a complex community patients, delivering care supporting early discharge and avoiding admissions to the acute hospital sites.
The following experience is desirable, though support will be given as our commitment to upskilling your professional development:
+ To provide an enhanced multidisciplinary specialist service, to manage patients with complex and acute needs in the community
+ To efficiently meet the needs of patients and help maintain the patients in their preferred place of care
+ To help prevent admissions to acute services
+ To coordinate procedures for patients either in their own place of residence
+ To provide ongoing multi-disciplinary input for patients being discharged from the IPU but still requiring a higher level of intervention
+ The ability to take blood tests
The Newcastle Frailty Virtual Ward (FVW) plays a vital role in supporting patients with acute frailty syndromes at their usual place of residence, both supporting early discharge and preventing hospital admission. Patients will be referred to the FVW from 'Front of House' (Emergency Department (ED), Assessment Suite (AS)), 'Back of House' ward step-down, (initially from Older People's Medicine (OPM)) and Community 'step-up' locations. Following initial assessment to confirm diagnoses, eligibility and both acute and long-term care needs, patients will be admitted to the FVW and a multidisciplinary management plan devised and communicated to patient and carers. While on the FVW, patients will have access to most of the medical treatments available in hospital, therefore in working in partnership with the patient to achieve optimum levels of self-care, you will ensure the patient has the appropriate follow up in place. Home visits will be conducted as indicated
by patient status, with regular face to face visits likely to be established initially, but later reviews may be conducted by telephone or video.
The successful candidate will have awareness of current evidence based approaches to patient care in the community and be confident in evaluating care plans and assessing ongoing needs within own level of competency, documenting changes accordingly thus maintaining accurate nursing records in accordance with NMC and Trust Policy. The successful candidate will also have excellent communication skills both with patients and their relatives and/or carers including in advising service users on prevention of illness and accidents, but also with the wider MDT., The following dimensions are some of the requirements of in the Advanced Nurse Practitioner role, please see the job description for further essential criteria:
+ Ensure professional practices in line with the requirements of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and the Trust
+ Ensure the provision of safe and effective patient care in the Community
+ Support and contribute to the development of patient care and nursing practice, contributing to the development and expansion of the Urgent Community Response and Frailty Virtual Ward projects where required
+ Ensure junior staff have appropriate supervision and support and are appropriately assessed
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.
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.

The successful candidate will ideally have experience in managing the acutely unwell patient and knowledge of the escalation process should a patient become too unwell to be managed safely in the community. Clinical skills such as history taking, auscultation and medication management is desirable.
Lone working is a significant part of the role and the candidate should be familiar with the Trust lone working policy. Lone working safety devices will be available to staff. The candidate will need to hold a valid driver's license and have a vehicle suitable to be able to perform home visits in.

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 1.84 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., 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.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.
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.