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Community Nurse Practitioner
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (will include BH and weekends, shift pattern includes 8am starts and 8pm finishes)
Job ref
319-6888206KD
Employer
Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
CBX Buisness Centre
Town
Wallsend
Salary
£46,148 - £52,809 Pro rata, per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
19/02/2025 23:59

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Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust logo

Community Nurse Practitioner

NHS AfC: Band 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.

Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a 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 your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process. 

Job overview

We are looking for enthusiastic, dedicated Nurses to join our team and work with us to deliver an evidence based, clinically effective service for our patients in their own homes.

The service is part of an integrated community pathway for patients offering a crisis response. and supporting with unplanned care.  The service will provide an integrated approach to care of patients in the community by using a holistic approach and providing a multidisciplinary assessment which will aim to ensure patients remain at home with appropriate health and social services support

The post holder will be part of a wider Community Response Team and will use their clinical skills and non medical prescribing to support patients to remain at home  and avoid admission to hospital and also offer hospital based care to our patients on the virtual ward

You will assess ,plan, and evaluate clients care  including families and carers were appropriate

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

To work as an autonomous practitioner and  to provide expert clinical care for patients within community and rehabilitation settings. The service supports patients in North Tyneside and Northumberland, being based in North Tyneside or Northumberland.

The post holder will have knowledge and skills in acute assessment, long term conditions, frailty, physical assessment, clinical reasoning, 
diagnostic reasoning and independent prescribing. The post holder will use these skills within the community to assist in the recognition of early symptoms of  LTC, exacerbation, acute illness and injuries. 

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

The post holder will undertake comprehensive assessment of the physical and psycho-social care needs of frail patients who may also have complex chronic disease. Formulating a clinical management plan. This will involve gathering and interpreting information, performing tests and analysing the results, arranging onward referral if deemed necessary

 The post holder will  prescribe safe effective and appropriate medication as defined by legislative framework and/or agreed protocols and guidelines

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • NMC registration
  • BSc (Hons) degree in 2;2 or above
  • Appropriate post graduate qualification
  • Non-medical prescribing and evidence of participating in CPD
  • Clinical skills course and evidence of diagnosing and arranging investigations
  • Registered mentor

Experience and Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Highly specialised knowledge in community practice and frailty underpinned by theory and experience
  • Significant post registration experience, in a community setting.
  • Leadership experience
  • Expert experience in the management of individuals with acute episodes of illness, long term conditions/frail elderly.
  • Detailed knowledge of current best practice and legislation relevant to post
  • Evidence of being an expert innovative practitioner
  • Policy drivers in the NHS
  • An understanding of Clinical Governance and evidenced based practice
  • Evidence of continuing academic and professional development
  • A clear understanding of Primary and Community care
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of public health issues
  • Ability to identify determinants on health in the area
  • Project management
  • Health needs assessment

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 Theasby
Job title
Operational Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0191 2932580
Additional information

Jayne Theasby

Operational/Clinical manager

[email protected]