Nurse Practitioner | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 29 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £50,056 per annum / pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 29 May 2024 |
| Location: | 317 Trustwide, NE7 7DN |
| Company: | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6206374/317-2024-15-43-DR |
Summary
Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Urgent Treatment Centres are now in a position to recruit an experienced Band 7 Nurse Practitioner to join our team of highly skilled nurses providing care for acute minor illness and injury within a community setting.
• Interview date: 7th June 2024
• Full time post but part time would be considered
• 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.
• The Urgent Treatment Centre's are a GP led service that is open every day of the year from 08:00-22:00. In collaboration with our alliance partners, our Nurse Practitioners will work across all of our sites providing high quality care. Whilst our Nurse Practitioners work as independent healthcare practitioners, delivering care to all age ranges and presenting conditions, they can also expect to receive support from the rest of the team.
• This post is open to Registered Nurses / Nurse Practitioners with extensive primary and/or urgent care experience who can demonstrate their ability to work within the community in an urgent care/unscheduled care setting. Skills required for this post are the ability to undertake assessment, diagnosis, treatment/referral and discharge of patients with minor illness and undifferentiated minor injuries. A prescribing qualification and ability to read and interpret X-rays would be desirable.
• If you want to be part of a pro-active team who are committed to putting patients at the centre of everything we do to provide the highest standard of urgent primary care and have the enthusiasm and motivation to make a difference then please contact us.
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, we have around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 2 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.
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, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
• 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:
o To ensure that the patient is the central focus of a streamlined patient journey ensuring optimal quality of care.
o Working as a nurse practitioner, provide a prompt response to calls from colleagues, prioritising importance and clinical need.
o Manage own caseload to include assessment, investigation, diagnosis and treatment within defined parameters and training.
o Provide immediate care management of patient including communication of plan to patients and significant others.
o Review and refer to appropriate person, e.g. AHP, resident medical staff, specialist registrar or critical care outreach team.
o Liaising with Patient Services Coordinator where necessary.
o Communicate within multidisciplinary team, ward/departmental staff and/or out of hours team.
o Provide specialist education and training to departmental nursing staff, nursing and medical students.
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.
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.
This advert closes on Wednesday 8 May 2024
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