Nurse Practitioner

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 PractitionersThe practitioner team cover a number of different sites, wards and departments within the business unit.

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.

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

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To develop the skills required to provide advanced clinical assessment of patients.
• To triage patients, prioritising clinical need, highlighting and initiating treatment plans by following agreed Trust guidelines and protocols whilst under supervision.
• To develop the skills to work autonomously, assessing individual patient needs, initiating investigations, determining a differential diagnosis and initiating appropriate holistic, evidence based treatment and care.
• To provide senior nursing support on operational issues.
• 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.