Main area Community Nurse Practitioner Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours
* Full time
* Part time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (will include BH and weekends, shift pattern includes 8am starts and 8pm finishes) Job ref 319-6888206KD
Employer Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site CBX Buisness Centre Town Wallsend Salary £46,148 - £52,809 Pro rata, per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 19/02/2025 23:59
Community Nurse Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 7
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you :
* Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
* Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
* A range of flexible working opportunities
* Generous annual leave and pension scheme
* Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
* Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
* On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
* Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
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Job overview
We are looking for enthusiastic, dedicated Nurses to join our team and work with us to deliver an evidence based, clinically effective service for our patients in their own homes.
The service is part of an integrated community pathway for patients offering crisis response and supporting with unplanned care. The service will provide an integrated approach to care of patients in the community by using a holistic approach and providing a multidisciplinary assessment which will aim to ensure patients remain at home with appropriate health and social services support.
The post holder will be part of a wider Community Response Team and will use their clinical skills and non-medical prescribing to support patients to remain at home and avoid admission to hospital and also offer hospital based care to our patients on the virtual ward.
You will assess, plan, and evaluate clients care including families and carers where appropriate.
Main duties of the job
To work as an autonomous practitioner and to provide expert clinical care for patients within community and rehabilitation settings. The service supports patients in North Tyneside and Northumberland, being based in North Tyneside or Northumberland.
The post holder will have knowledge and skills in acute assessment, long term conditions, frailty, physical assessment, clinical reasoning, diagnostic reasoning and independent prescribing. The post holder will use these skills within the community to assist in the recognition of early symptoms of LTC, exacerbation, acute illness and injuries.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will undertake comprehensive assessment of the physical and psycho-social care needs of frail patients who may also have complex chronic disease, formulating a clinical management plan. This will involve gathering and interpreting information, performing tests and analysing the results, arranging onward referral if deemed necessary.
The post holder will prescribe safe effective and appropriate medication as defined by legislative framework and/or agreed protocols and guidelines.
Person specification
Qualifications
* NMC registration
* BSc (Hons) degree in 2;2 or above
* Non-medical prescribing and evidence of participating in CPD
* Clinical skills course and evidence of diagnosing and arranging investigations
* Registered mentor
Experience and Knowledge
* Highly specialised knowledge in community practice and frailty underpinned by theory and experience
* Significant post registration experience, in a community setting.
* Expert experience in the management of individuals with acute episodes of illness, long term conditions/frail elderly.
* Detailed knowledge of current best practice and legislation relevant to post
* Evidence of being an expert innovative practitioner
* Policy drivers in the NHS
* An understanding of Clinical Governance and evidenced based practice
* Evidence of continuing academic and professional development
* A clear understanding of Primary and Community care
* Knowledge of public health issues
* Ability to identify determinants on health in the area
* Project management
* Health needs assessment
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
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