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Job summary

Main area
Nursing and Allied Health Professionals
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6/7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Monday to Sunday including night duty.)
Job ref
319-6204503SO
Employer
Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
All Sites / Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital
Town
Cramlington
Salary
£35,392 - £50,056 Band 7 on completion of competencies, prescribing & ALS.
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
05/05/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust logo

Nurse Practitioner

NHS AfC: Band 6/7

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022).  Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

  • Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
  • Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
  • A range of flexible working opportunities
  • Generous annual leave and pension scheme
  • Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
  • Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
  • On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
  • Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy. 

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

 

 

Job overview

We are a team of practitioners working across the Medicine Emergency  Care Business Unit at Northumbria providing care and treatment to the patients presenting to the Emergency Department at our Specialist Emergency Care Hospital and also supporting the Hospital at Night team.

Our team currently consists of:

  • Band 7 Nurse Practitioners / Band 7 Specialist Clinical Practitioners.
  • Band 6 Trainee Nurse Practitioners / Band 6 Clinical Practitioners
  • The practitioner team cover a number of different sites, wards and departments within the business unit.

The practitioners role is to provide independent advanced clinical assessment and management of patients in the Emergency Department. 

The practitioners are responsible for flow through the department and ensuring timely assessment, treatment, discharge and referrals where needed.

While the practitioners are covering base sites (North Tyneside General Hospital, Wansbeck General Hospital they are key members of the cardiac arrest team and the senior nurse on site.

This post falls within the provisions of Agenda for Change Annex 20 - Development of Professional Roles, whereby upon completion of an agreed set of competencies you may move onto the next pay band without the need for an application for a post at a higher level.

 

Main duties of the job

  • Provide skilled and knowledgeable care and advice to patients and their carers.
  • Complete assessments, planning, implementation and evaluation of direct care to patients.
  • Work with all members of the multidisciplinary team.
  • Engage with external agencies to provide a high-quality service for patients and their carers.
  • Contribute to the development of high-quality services within Northumbria Healthcare.
  • To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across Organisational boundaries.

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

 Provide skilled and knowledgeable care and advice to patients and their carers.

Complete assessments, planning, implementation and evaluation of direct care to patients.

Work with all members of the multidisciplinary team.

Engage with external agencies to provide a high quality service for patients and their carers.

Contribute to the development of high quality services within Northumbria Healthcare.

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • 1st Level Live NMC Registered Nurse
  • Registered Mentor
  • Degree level study with ongoing/continuing professional development
  • ENB998/730 or equivalent
Desirable criteria
  • Minor Injuries qualification/experience
  • ILS (Advanced CPR/Trust one day training course)
  • Nurse prescribing course or willing to undertake
  • Nurse Practitioner qualification (NACAN Masters Level)
  • IRMER course

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident employerCare quality commission - OutstandingStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Better Health at Work Award - Maintaining ExcellenceHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Jayne Blackburn
Job title
Operational Service Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07876845914
Additional information

Jayne Blackburn - Operational Service Manager, [email protected]

Laura Newcombe - Modern Matron [email protected]

Nicola Oliver - Lead Night Nurse Practitioner, [email protected]