Nurse Practitioner / Physician Associate / Nurse Practitioner (Trainee)

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a supportive, forward thinking and innovative multi-disciplinary team including medical staff, Surgical Care Practitioners, Physician Associates and clinical Nurse Specialists who are committed to providing the highest standard of patient care within the Hepatobiliary (HPB) teams at the Freeman Hospital., This is a new role within the department and is likely to develop in the future. Successful candidates would be expected to adapt to the needs of the trust and HPB departments to continue to provide the very best care possible for regional patients., 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 complex HPB patients
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
+ To provide support to the HPB team, rounds, clinics including rapid access clinics
+ To work alongside allied health professionals as a team. E.g - Physician associates, Surgical scrub practitioners
Physician Associate
+ The post holder will work under the supervision of the Medical Team and will be supported in developing those skills necessary to perform their role in providing high quality, patient centred service to patients attending the breast unit
+ The role will largely be based within Endoscopy Services initially undergoing training in endoscopic procedures. Ultimately to a point where the post holder will deliver their own diagnostic endoscopy caseload once training complete (in line with national guidance on endoscopy training)
+ The post holder will work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team in the endoscopy units including nurse practitioners and within the policies and procedures of the unit and NUTH
+ The post holder will build on their skills in clerking, assessing and examining patients gained through their physician associate training, develop skills in lesion recognition in the gastrointestinal tract, interpretation and recommend appropriate managements/treatments (as governed by national guidelines). They
will be expected to liaise with other professionals and specialities as required and complete necessary documentation relating to their patients
+ It is expected that the Physician Associate will become involved in the activities of the Department including coordinating patients on treatment pathways, including 2WW cancer pathways, reviewing patients and providing subsequent management of cases in conjunction with the Clinical team. Physician Associates
may represent the department at local meetings as appropriate.
+ Physicians Associates will be expected to contribute to the unit's educational activities and instruct and educate patients in preventative healthcare
+ Physician Associates will be expected to contribute to the unit's governance system including the Endoscopy User Group meetings
+ Fully document all aspects of patient care and complete all required paperwork for legal and administrative purposes
Nurse Practitioner (Trainee)
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:
+ To ensure that the patient is the central focus of a streamlined patient journey ensuring optimal quality of care
+ Will provide a prompt response to calls from colleagues, prioritising importance and clinical need
+ Supports the clinical team to manage a defined caseload, activity to include assessment, investigation, diagnosis and treatment within defined protocols 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
+ Liaises with Patient Services Coordinator. o Communicate within multidisciplinary team, ward/departmental staff and/or out of hour's team
+ 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.
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.

We have a full time post for Band 7 Nurse Practitioner/Physician Associate within the HPB team. We will consider a Band 6 Nurse Practitioner training post for a candidates with appropriate experience, candidates will progress to a Band 7 within 6 - 18 months once they have completed the clinical skills and assessment course., If you have excellent clinical and communication skills, attention to detail and a proactive nature, as well as the ambition to be responsive in supporting change and improving practices within diagnostic pathways, this could be a new career challenge to develop and expand your skills and we would like to hear from you and receive your application.

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.