We are looking for a Community Nurse Practitioner to join us working with CARE Point.

The post holder will be expected to co-ordinate care for acutely unwell patients and navigate patients with frailty and LTC through pathways across the primary, community and secondary care interface. This will include the prevention of unnecessary admissions, facilitating appropriate discharges, and in-reaching into both acute and rehabilitation facilities.

Main duties of the job

• 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 coordinate care and services to be delivered within primary care for patients during an acute episode of illness also if appropriate supporting discharge from hospital. Working in partnership with primary, secondary care and other appropriate agencies, including the voluntary sector.
• To prescribe safe effective and appropriate medication as defined by legislative framework and/or agreed protocols and guidelines.

Please note: this role may require assessment centre or psychometric testing.

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. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Job description

Job responsibilities

• To work as an autonomous practitioner to provide expert clinical care for patients within community, primary and rehabilitation settings 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 frailty, disease exacerbation, acute illness and injuries.
• 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 coordinate care and services to be delivered within primary care for patients during an acute episode of illness also if appropriate supporting discharge from hospital. Working in partnership with primary, secondary care and other appropriate agencies, including the voluntary sector.
• To prescribe safe effective and appropriate medication as defined by legislative framework and/or agreed protocols and guidelines.
• 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

Essential

• NMC Registration
• BSc (Hons) degree in 2 2 or above
• Appropriate post graduate qualification
• Non-medical prescribing and evidence of participating in CPD
• Clinical skills course and evidence of diagnosing and arranging investigations
• Registered mentor

Employer details

Employer name

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

CBX Business Centre

Cobalt Way

Wallsend

NE28 9NZ

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319-5328742HN-C