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Trainee/Nurse Practitioner (Rheumatology)
Closed for applications on: 23-Jun-2025 00:02
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 23-Jun-2025 00:02
Key details
Location
- Site
- Freeman Hospital
- Town
- 317 01 Freeman Hospital
- Postcode
- NE7 7DN
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £37,338 - £52,809 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 6 to Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- 317 NURSE PRACTITIONERS/SPECIALIST - RHEUMATOLOGY & METABOLIC BONE
- Interview date
- 07/07/2025
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, 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, sex, 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.
Job overview
The Rheumatology Department is expanding, and these are new posts. The department provides a rheumatology service to the Newcastle population, and also a highly specialised service for inflammatory arthritis, spondylarthritis, connective tissue disease and vasculitis within the North East region.
The Nurse Practitioner will provide clinical care for patients with a wide range of rheumatology conditions, across the day-case unit, outpatient department and inpatient settings. To deliver a quality of service matching clinical need to available resources within the focus of specialist nursing practice.
This can be a development opportunity, with a training pathway available for somebody new to the specialty or still requiring their clinical skills and prescribing qualifications. In this case, the successful candidate would be appointed as a Band 6 Trainee Nurse Practitioner and would be supported to undertake the relevant qualifications with a timescale between 18 – 24 months.
- Interview Date Monday 07 July 2025
- 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.
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The post holder will work as a Rheumatology Trainee Nurse Practitioner, which will involve spending time on our Day Case Unit (DCU), inpatient ward, monitoring department, specialist clinics and general rheumatology clinics under the supervision of the consultant body and senior nursing team.
The post holder will be responsible for the clinical assessment and management of a cohort of patients with diagnosed rheumatology conditions, working closely alongside consultants and allied health professionals. This will involve reviewing and overseeing the care and treatment of patients on the day-case unit, undertaking independent rheumatology clinics in outpatient setting and some involvement in delivery of care in an inpatient setting.
As well as providing and supporting care on the day-case unit and undertaking rheumatology outpatient clinics, the post holder will also be involved in the delivery of the specialist advice line triage and clinics.
Working for our organisation
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, 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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Band 6
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.
- 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.
Band 7
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. H@N, pre assessment.
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.
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.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Meets all Trainee Band 6 Criteria
Essential criteria
- • Registered Nurse (appropriate to branch)
- • Current NMC registration
- • Diploma plus specialist qualifications / experience within specialist area; prepared to take degree level study
- • Working towards / prepared to work towards: • Nurse Practitioner Qualification or equivalent
- • Clinical Skills Course
- • Non-Medical prescribing if relevant to role
- • Meets Nursing and Midwifery Council standards for student supervision and assessment (formally Mentorship) if relevant to role
- • Extended clinical practice underpinned by training and assessment e.g. venepuncture, cannulation skills and intravenous drug administration
- • Audit / research experience
- • Evidence of on-going continuous professional development
- • Knowledge and understanding of relevant NHS policy or project specific policy context
- • Has understanding / experience of adult / child safeguarding
- • Good IT skills
- • Able to work independently and across disciplines as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
- • Effective organisation and time management skills
- • Current driving licence if relevant to role
Desirable criteria
- • Degree in health related subject
- • Has undertaken and completed Non-medical independent nurse prescribing course
- • Research or audit experience
- • Evidence of contribution to education programmes and / or training
- • Change management skills and involvement in project work
Meets All Band 7 Criteria
Essential criteria
- • Registered Nurse (appropriate to branch)
- • Current NMC registration
- • Degree/Masters level study, or equivalent specialist study / experience e.g. o Nurse Practitioner Qualification or equivalent o Clinical Skills Course
- • Meets Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) requirements for mentorship if relevant to role
- • Evidence of on-going continuous professional development
- • Knowledge and understanding of relevant NHS policy or project specific policy context
- • Has understanding / experience of adult / child safeguarding
- • Recent experience of extended clinical practice in a senior role underpinned by training and assessment e.g. venepuncture, cannulation skills and intravenous drug administration
- • Audit / research experience
- • Good IT skills
- • Able to work independently and across disciplines as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
- • Effective organisation and time management skills
- • Current driving licence if relevant to role
- • Moving and handling patients and objects in line with Trust guidelines using appropriate aids
Desirable criteria
- • Master’s degree
- • Management experience / qualification
- • Has undertaken and completed Non-medical independent nurse prescribing course
- • Evidence of leading programme / programmes of education and / or training
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Julia Ibbotson
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 2448960
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