Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Opportunity for a Night Nurse Practitioner with minor injury/illness skills to work at Berwick Infirmary supporting our Minor Injuries Unit (MIU) until 12 midnight and then to move to the ward to support the nursing team as senior night nurse in the hospital.
Should anyone attend our minor injuries department overnight, the NNP would be expected to open MIU and assess/treat the patient.
This post is an autonomous role; therefore, the successful candidate must be able to demonstrate that they have the essential clinical skills, criteria, and experience to work autonomously.
This post can be a training post at Band 6, moving to Band 7 once competencies are met if the successful candidate does not have non-medical prescribing.
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
We are looking for an autonomous practitioner who is happy to work independently treating a varied group of patients who may present to our Minor Injuries Unit overnight. The successful candidate is the senior nurse in the hospital at night and has a responsibility to support the night nursing team clinically and professionally as a support to the ward manager.
The successful candidate should have experience with minor injuries and advanced clinical assessment/Nurse practitioner experience.
About us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck, and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High-quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do, and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us.
Job responsibilities
To provide advanced clinical support to medical staff and the nursing team. To work in an interdisciplinary manner with doctors, nurses, social services, and other agencies to provide high-quality care for patients. To triage patients, prioritising clinical need, highlighting and initiating treatment plans by following agreed Trust guidelines and protocols. To undertake detailed assessments, initiating investigations, determining a differential diagnosis, and initiating appropriate holistic, evidence-based treatment and care and reviews of patients under the supervision of the medical team. To provide senior nursing support on operational issues during the night. To support the ward team once MIU closes at 12 midnight. To undertake detailed reviews of patients who may deteriorate or fall as appropriate. 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Nurse Practitioner qualification (NACAN or NNPC) and/or relevant clinical skills qualification
* Registered Mentor
* ENB 998/730 or equivalent (126/127) units
* Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching, and assessing of students (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18-month period)
Experience
* Specialist knowledge and experience gained by completion of an accredited Nurse Practitioner Training Programme or a willingness to undertake such a programme
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
£37,338 to £52,809 a year pro rata per annum
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