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The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Nurse Practitioner
Closed for applications on: 16-Jul-2025 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 16-Jul-2025 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Regent Point
- Town
- 317 Regent Point
- Postcode
- NE3 3HD
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Until 19 July 2026)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- 317 UCR/HAT
- Interview date
- 29/07/2025
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
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our friendly, innovative and dynamic Urgent Community Response Team which is comprised of the Hospital Avoidance Team and Same Day Response Team to cover Maternity Leave until July 2026. We also work very closely with the Frailty Virtual Ward Team and the successful candidate will be expected to work across all these teams. We are based at Regent Point in Gosforth and work across the city of Newcastle providing specialist care to housebound adults.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Registered Nurse 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 Consultants, Nurse Practitioners, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Social Workers and Support Staff all of whom are committed to maintaining independence, promoting self-care and assisting patients in their usual place of residence. The team are collectively ambitious in maintaining and exceeding the national Urgent Community Response standard, providing care to people their homes to help avoid hospital admissions and enable people to live independently for longer. Oftentimes, this post therefore requires you to work autonomously when working across the city and seeing acutely unwell patients therefore having Community experience, a practical knowledge of PGDs and a clinical skills qualification would be an advantage but is not essential.
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As a Community Nurse Practitioner you will:
- be responsible and accountable for the delivery of nursing care to a defined patient group by utilising team management, clinical and organisational skills. This will include triaging and clinical assessment of the housebound 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 such Frailty Virtual Ward, District Nursing or Specialist Care Home Support Team or Hospital as required.
- 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 teams/agencies as appropriate.
As this is a Community role, a full and valid UK driving licence and use of a suitable vehicle for work however is essential.
- Interview Date Tuesday 29 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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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
We are looking for an enthusiastic, innovative and engaging individual, who has a passion for the delivery of high quality patient care across the city to join our expanding and friendly team. The candidate will have to be able to prioritise their own workload, oftentimes without direct supervision, have an excellent patient focused approach and be able to use their initiative as well as work as part of a multidisciplinary team.
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 as the service is operational from 8am to 8pm, 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 excellent patient care and preventing avoidable admissions to the acute hospital sites.
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.
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
Qualifications & Education
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
Desirable criteria
- Degree in health related subject
- Has undertaken and completed Non-medical independent nurse prescribing course
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- 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
Desirable criteria
- Research or audit experience
- Evidence of contribution to education programmes and / or training
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- 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
- Change management skills and involvement in project work
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Gordon
- Job title
- Team Lead/Nurse Practitioner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07999157588
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