Nurse Practitioner

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our friendly, innovative and dynamic Urgent Community Response Team which is comprised of the Hospital Avoidance Team and Same Day Response Team to cover Maternity Leave until July 2026. We also work very closely with the Frailty Virtual Ward Team and the successful candidate will be expected to work across all these teams. We are based at Regent Point in Gosforth and work across the city of Newcastle providing specialist care to housebound adults.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Registered Nurse who is passionate about service development and providing high standard of patient centred care. You will be working closely within a multidisciplinary team of staff including Consultants, Nurse Practitioners, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Social Workers and Support Staff all of whom are committed to maintaining independence, promoting self-care and assisting patients in their usual place of residence. The team are collectively ambitious in maintaining and exceeding the national Urgent Community Response standard, providing care to people their homes to help avoid hospital admissions and enable people to live independently for longer. Oftentimes, this post therefore requires you to work autonomously when working across the city and seeing acutely unwell patients therefore having Community experience, a practical knowledge of PGDs and a clinical skills qualification would be an advantage but is not essential.

Main duties of the job

As a Community Nurse Practitioner you will:

• be responsible and accountable for the delivery of nursing care to a defined patient group by utilising team management, clinical and organisational skills. This will include triaging and clinical assessment of the housebound patient either in their own home or a residential setting. The CNP will then depending on the patient's condition may refer to another service including GP/another Community Team such Frailty Virtual Ward, District Nursing or Specialist Care Home Support Team or Hospital as required.
• engage in the assessment of individual, family and community health care needs in partnership with patients.
• plan, implement and evaluate health care programmes to meet identify need, within available resources referring to team members and other teams/agencies as appropriate.

As this is a Community role, a full and valid UK driving licence and use of a suitable vehicle for work however is essential.

• Interview Date Tuesday 29 July 2025
• 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
• 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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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We are looking for an enthusiastic, innovative and engaging individual, who has a passion for the delivery of high quality patient care across the city to join our expanding and friendly team. The candidate will have to be able to prioritise their own workload, oftentimes without direct supervision, have an excellent patient focused approach and be able to use their initiative as well as work as part of a multidisciplinary team.

The successful candidate will be hardworking, reliable, able to use their initiative, and work flexibly to respond to the service needs. This includes working evenings, weekends and bank holidays as the service is operational from 8am to 8pm, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. As a member of our multi-disciplinary team, you will work to meet the needs of a complex community patients, delivering excellent patient care and preventing avoidable admissions to the acute hospital sites.

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.

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.