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The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
About
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Contact
- Address
- Royal Victoria Infirmary
- Queen Victoria Road
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Tyne and Wear
- NE1 4LP
- Contact Number
- 0191 282 0999 option 2
Nurse Practitioner
Accepting applications until: 10-Nov-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 10-Nov-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- Regent Point Community Base
- Tref
- 317 Regent Point
- Cod post
- NE3 3HD
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent: 2 part time vacancies
- Oriau
- Part time - 1 x 34 hours / 1 x 28.5
Salary
- Cyflog
- £39,959 - £48,117 pro rata
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (Band 6)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- 317 Nursing Homes Project Team
- Dyddiad y cyfweliad
- 25/11/2026
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.
With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.
As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
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 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.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
We currently have 2 part time vacancies.
Post 1 34 hours / week
post 2 28.5 hours / week
We are a specialist nursing service for care homes within Newcastle upon Tyne for residents living with multiple long-term conditions and frailty who are experiencing worsening health due to increasing complexity of needs and require a defined period of focused, enhanced multi-disciplinary clinical support and oversight.
The Specialist Care Home Support Team delivers proactive, multidisciplinary clinical support, working in partnership with the care home nursing team, GP's and other community and acute services. We offer advice and support, provide personalised holistic care and advance care planning. The team is supported by a Speciality doctor in Palliative Medicine. We coordinate a weekly multi-disciplinary meeting attended by a Consultant Geriatrician, old Age Psychiatry and other health care professionals to discuss care home residents with complex needs. We also support the care home link GP by attending the weekly ward round.
We aim to enhance the lives of care home residents and avoid unnecessary hospital admissions.
The role is varied and rewarding caring for a complex patient group who's needs are often overlooked.
- Interview Date Wednesday 25 November 2026
- 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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Clinical / non clinical support and sign posting to other services where appropriate following referral into the service.
Complete frailty focused Comprehensive Baseline Assessments
Provide time limited enhanced case management for patients with complex clinical , safe guarding or family related needs, requiring multiple consultations and coordination across services to support care planning and advanced decision making.
Undertake clinical physical assessments when required.
Meet with residents and their families to discuss advance care planning, including writing Emergency Health Care Plans, Treatment Escalation Plans and Advanced Statements.
Weekly MDT review of complex cases, bringing together specialist clinicians to optimise care, support advance care planning and decision making, with referrers invited to attend the meeting.
Attend the weekly G.P care home rounds alongside the GP. Complete clinical assessments and provide specialist nursing advice and support.
Provide End of Life Care support to the nursing staff.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
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.
With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:
- Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
- Freeman Hospital
- Newcastle Dental Hospital
- Cramlington Manor Walks
- Urgent treatment centres
- Newcastle Fertility Centre
- Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
- Northern Genetics Service
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 Careers at The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit our website: Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
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.
Whilst Newcastle Hospitals are a forward thinking and highly innovative organisation, the use of Third-Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity of your individual application or to the recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
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.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Meini prawf hanfodol
- • 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
Meini prawf dymunol
- • Degree in health related subject
- • Has undertaken and completed Non-medical independent nurse prescribing course
Knowledge & Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- • 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
Meini prawf dymunol
- • Research or audit experience
- • Evidence of contribution to education programmes and / or training
Skills & Abilities
Meini prawf hanfodol
- • 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
Meini prawf dymunol
- • Change management skills and involvement in project work
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Karen Curtis
- Teitl y swydd
- Team Lead
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 0191 2823664
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