Main area: 317 Evening & Night Nursing Service
Grade: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 30 hours per week (Evening and night shift pattern)
Job ref: 317-2025-04-32-DR
Employer: The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Trustwide
Town: Trustwide
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 04/02/2025 23:59
Interview date: 14/02/2025
Job overview
We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Nurse Practitioner to join the Evening and Night Nursing Service which is part of our Urgent Community Response Team based at Regent Point in Newcastle. This is an exciting opportunity to join an innovative team of friendly, experienced and professional staff who provide care for patients in their own homes and care homes out of hours. The team provides predominantly complex care to palliative and end of life patients and families from 5pm-8am, also responding to other urgent care needs under the national 2 hour urgent care response requirements. The individual requires an accredited advanced clinical skills/history taking and physical assessment qualification and also ideally possess a non-medical prescribing course or the willingness to undertake this. You should be able to work autonomously as well as part of a wider team, to provide the highest quality care for this complex, specialised client group. Experience/knowledge of mental capacity and safeguarding procedures is essential. The successful candidate will be required to mentor staff and provide supervision for staff undertaking clinical skills qualification, non-medical prescribing. In working with the existing Band 7s in the team there are opportunities to develop your leadership and staff management skills. Main duties of the job
To deliver a quality of 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. Working as a nurse practitioner, provide a prompt response to calls from colleagues, prioritising importance and clinical need. Manage own caseload to include assessment, investigation, diagnosis and treatment within defined parameters and training. Provide immediate care management of patient including communication of plan to patients and significant others. Review and refer to appropriate person/teams. Communicate within multidisciplinary team, ward/departmental staff and/or out of hours team. Provide education and training to departmental nursing staff, nursing students. Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Registered Nurse (appropriate to branch) Current NMC registration Degree/Masters level study, or equivalent specialist study/experience e.g. Nurse Practitioner Qualification or equivalent, Clinical Skills Course Has undertaken and completed Non-medical independent nurse prescribing course Knowledge & Experience
Meets Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) requirements for mentorship if relevant to role Evidence of ongoing continuous professional development Knowledge and understanding of relevant NHS policy or project specific policy context Has understanding/experience of adult/child safeguarding Recent experience of extended clinical practice in a senior role underpinned by training and assessment e.g. venepuncture, cannulation skills and intravenous drug administration Audit/research experience Skills & Abilities
Able to work independently and across disciplines as a member of a multi-disciplinary team Effective organisation and time management skills Current driving licence if relevant to role Moving and handling patients and objects in line with Trust guidelines using appropriate aids Evidence of leading programme/programmes of education and/or training Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form:
All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay. Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.
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We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Nurse Practitioner to join the Evening and Night Nursing Service which is part of our Urgent Community Response Team based at Regent Point in Newcastle. This is an exciting opportunity to join an innovative team of friendly, experienced and professional staff who provide care for patients in their own homes and care homes out of hours. The team provides predominantly complex care to palliative and end of life patients and families from 5pm-8am, also responding to other urgent care needs under the national 2 hour urgent care response requirements. The individual requires an accredited advanced clinical skills/history taking and physical assessment qualification and also ideally possess a non-medical prescribing course or the willingness to undertake this. You should be able to work autonomously as well as part of a wider team, to provide the highest quality care for this complex, specialised client group. Experience/knowledge of mental capacity and safeguarding procedures is essential. The successful candidate will be required to mentor staff and provide supervision for staff undertaking clinical skills qualification, non-medical prescribing. In working with the existing Band 7s in the team there are opportunities to develop your leadership and staff management skills. Main duties of the job
To deliver a quality of 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. Working as a nurse practitioner, provide a prompt response to calls from colleagues, prioritising importance and clinical need. Manage own caseload to include assessment, investigation, diagnosis and treatment within defined parameters and training. Provide immediate care management of patient including communication of plan to patients and significant others. Review and refer to appropriate person/teams. Communicate within multidisciplinary team, ward/departmental staff and/or out of hours team. Provide education and training to departmental nursing staff, nursing students. Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Registered Nurse (appropriate to branch) Current NMC registration Degree/Masters level study, or equivalent specialist study/experience e.g. Nurse Practitioner Qualification or equivalent, Clinical Skills Course Has undertaken and completed Non-medical independent nurse prescribing course Knowledge & Experience
Meets Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) requirements for mentorship if relevant to role Evidence of ongoing continuous professional development Knowledge and understanding of relevant NHS policy or project specific policy context Has understanding/experience of adult/child safeguarding Recent experience of extended clinical practice in a senior role underpinned by training and assessment e.g. venepuncture, cannulation skills and intravenous drug administration Audit/research experience Skills & Abilities
Able to work independently and across disciplines as a member of a multi-disciplinary team Effective organisation and time management skills Current driving licence if relevant to role Moving and handling patients and objects in line with Trust guidelines using appropriate aids Evidence of leading programme/programmes of education and/or training Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form:
All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay. Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.
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