Specialist Clinical Practitioner

Job overview

We are a large team of practitioners working across the Emergency  Surgery and Elective Care Business Unit at Northumbria.

Our team currently consists of:

• Advanced Nurse Practitioner Clinical Lead.
• Band 7 Nurse Practitioners /Specialist Clinical Practitioners.
• Physician Associates.
• Band 6 Trainee Nurse Practitioners /Clinical Practitioners.
• Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioners.

The practitioner team cover several different sites, wards and departments within the business unit.

The practitioner's role is to provide independent, advanced clinical assessment and management of patients from admission to discharge. This role involves working independently of medical staff or remote assistance.

While the practitioners cover base sites (North Tyneside General Hospital, Wansbeck General Hospital, and Hexham General Hospital), they are key members of the cardiac arrest team.

Practitioners provide senior clinical and non clinical leadership to departments, wards and the site they are working.

These posts will be predominantly based within the orthopaedic team, rotating between Hexham, Wansbeck and NSECH sites.

Main duties of the job

• Provide skilled and knowledgeable care and advice to patients and their carers.
• Complete assessments, planning, implementation and evaluation of direct care to patients.
• Work with all members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Engage with external agencies to provide a high-quality service for patients and their carers.
• Contribute to the development of high-quality services within Northumbria Healthcare.
• 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Provide skilled and knowledgeable care and advice to patients and their carers.

Complete assessments, planning, implementation and evaluation of direct care to patients.

Work with all members of the multidisciplinary team.

Engage with external agencies to provide a high quality service for patients and their carers.

Contribute to the development of high quality services within Northumbria Healthcare.

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.