Job summary
Fixed term contract/ secondment opportunity for 10 months
We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for experienced practitioners with advanced practice and prescribing skills to join our Orthopaedic Nurse Practitioner (ONP) team on a 10 month secondment or fixed term basis.
This role offers a unique chance to broaden and consolidate advanced clinical skills while working closely with the multidisciplinary orthopaedic team across all three areas of the Trust:
- Gately Ward
- Cringleford Ward
- Ashill NANOC Hub
- Outpatients
The post provides rich and varied experience across the full orthopaedic pathway, enabling the successful candidate to work within both emergency trauma care and planned elective services. You will be supported to develop autonomous practice, clinical decision making, and prescribing within a dynamic, high performing service.
Working alongside senior medical and nursing colleagues, you will play a key role in the assessment, diagnosis, treatment and discharge of orthopaedic patients, while contributing to service development and quality improvement. This opportunity is ideal for practitioners who are motivated to expand their scope of practice and gain exposure across multiple clinical environments.
If you are considering applying for this post on a secondment basis, please discuss with your Line Manager prior to applying to ascertain whether this could be supported.
Main duties of the job
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Work autonomously as an Orthopaedic Nurse Practitioner, using advanced clinical skills to assess, diagnose, treat and manage patients across the orthopaedic pathway.
- Provide high quality clinical care to patients within emergency trauma and elective orthopaedic services, ensuring timely assessment and appropriate decision making.
- Undertake comprehensive patient assessments, including history taking, physical examination, formulation of differential diagnoses, and development of management and discharge plans.
- Prescribe medications independently in line with non medical prescribing competencies, Trust policies, and evidence based practice.
- Manage patients across multiple clinical areas, including Gately Ward, Cringleford Ward, and the Ashill NANOC Hub, working flexibly to meet service needs.
- Review and monitor patients' clinical progress, escalating concerns appropriately and coordinating care with the wider multidisciplinary team.
- Support patient flow through effective clinical decision making, early discharge planning, and collaboration with ward and hub teams.
- Work closely with consultants, junior doctors, nurses, therapists and allied health professionals to deliver safe, effective, and coordinated care.
- Provide expert clinical advice and support to nursing and medical colleagues within scope of practice.
- Maintain accurate, timely, and contemporaneous clinical documentation in line with Trust and professional standards.
About us
Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!
The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.
We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
- Flexible working hours
- Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
- Multi Faith prayer room
- Discounted gym memberships
- Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
- Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
- Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH site
- Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
- On-site Nursery
- On-site cafes offering staff discounts
- Support in career development
- Flexible staff bank
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To complete full patient assessments and clerking of new admissions including prescribing medication and completing accurate documentation
- To undertake patient reviews and provide senior clinical advice ensuring patients receive the most appropriate care based on their clinical need
- To assess patients against expected clinical progression, recognising variation and commencing additional treatment and care as required
- To use in depth knowledge of physiological, pathological, social and cultural issues that influence disease to apply specialist knowledge to patient assessment and treatment planning
- To request and use the results of specialist investigations to assist the formulation of diagnosis and patient management plans.
- To interpret and analyse clinical and non clinical facts to formulate accurate diagnosis, prognosis, recommendation of best course of intervention, development of treatment plan and discharge planning.
- To undertake all basic and advanced clinical procedures necessary (within sphere of competence and working to Trust guidelines and policies) to investigate and stabilise patients.
- To ensure that patients are seen within the recommended time scales and targets where these are in place
- To attend all urgent and emergency calls as appropriate working in a collaborative manner with Hospital at Night Team.
- To obtain informed consent for specific procedures in line with relevant Trust policies and protocols ensuring full explanation is given.
Please view the attached job descriptions for full details of the role, and use your supporting statement to confirm how you meet the essential and desirable criteria on the job specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To complete full patient assessments and clerking of new admissions including prescribing medication and completing accurate documentation
- To undertake patient reviews and provide senior clinical advice ensuring patients receive the most appropriate care based on their clinical need
- To assess patients against expected clinical progression, recognising variation and commencing additional treatment and care as required
- To use in depth knowledge of physiological, pathological, social and cultural issues that influence disease to apply specialist knowledge to patient assessment and treatment planning
- To request and use the results of specialist investigations to assist the formulation of diagnosis and patient management plans.
- To interpret and analyse clinical and non clinical facts to formulate accurate diagnosis, prognosis, recommendation of best course of intervention, development of treatment plan and discharge planning.
- To undertake all basic and advanced clinical procedures necessary (within sphere of competence and working to Trust guidelines and policies) to investigate and stabilise patients.
- To ensure that patients are seen within the recommended time scales and targets where these are in place
- To attend all urgent and emergency calls as appropriate working in a collaborative manner with Hospital at Night Team.
- To obtain informed consent for specific procedures in line with relevant Trust policies and protocols ensuring full explanation is given.
Please view the attached job descriptions for full details of the role, and use your supporting statement to confirm how you meet the essential and desirable criteria on the job specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Prescribing module at degree or Masters level
- Post Graduate qualifications relevant to the specialism or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Experience of mentoring, supervision, teaching and assessment
Skills
Essential
- Credible practitioner/role model
Attitude, aptitude
Essential
- Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH's PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
- Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Prescribing module at degree or Masters level
- Post Graduate qualifications relevant to the specialism or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Experience of mentoring, supervision, teaching and assessment
Skills
Essential
- Credible practitioner/role model
Attitude, aptitude
Essential
- Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH's PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
- Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
