Emergency Nurse Practitioner

Job overview

Opportunity for nurse practitioners with minor injury/illness and major illness skills to work with a team including General Practitioners, nurse practitioners,  and healthcare assistants in our Urgent Treatment Centre at Alnwick  Hospital.

We are looking for an autonomous practitioner who is happy to work independently treating a varied group of patients.  We promote a culture of inclusive leadership and are keen to continually develop our staff.

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 apply advanced knowledge and skills during the management and provision of patient care, working within defined parameters. Lead specialist in Minor Injuries in Emergency Care.
• To support the Department Manager in her accountability of the department, members of staff, pay and non pay budget

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To assume responsibility for the assessment of care needs, the implementation of evidence based programmes of care after examination, investigation and diagnoses, providing accuratetreatment.
• To supervise, support and educate junior members of nursing and medical staff.
• To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
• To be responsible for all nursing care standards and to maintain high clinical standards.
• To work within the Urgent treatment Centres for Northumbria Healthcare Trust.
• 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 topromote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.