Job summary
We are a large team of practitioners working across the Emergency Surgery and Elective Care Business Unit at Northumbria.
Our team currently consists of:
- Advanced Nurse Practitioner Clinical Lead.
- Band 7 Nurse Practitioners /Specialist Clinical Practitioners.
- Physician Associates.
- Band 6 Trainee Nurse Practitioners /Clinical Practitioners.
- Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioners.
The practitioner team cover several different sites, wards and departments within the business unit.
The practitioner's role is to provide independent, advanced clinical assessment and management of patients from admission to discharge. This role involves working independently of medical staff or remote assistance.
While the practitioners cover base sites (North Tyneside General Hospital, Wansbeck General Hospital, and Hexham General Hospital), they are key members of the cardiac arrest team.
Practitioners provide senior clinical and non clinical leadership to departments, wards and the site they are working.
These posts will be predominantly based within the orthopaedic team, rotating between Hexham, Wansbeck and NSECH sites.
Main duties of the job
- Provide skilled and knowledgeable care and advice to patients and their carers.
- Complete assessments, planning, implementation and evaluation of direct care to patients.
- Work with all members of the multidisciplinary team.
- Engage with external agencies to provide a high-quality service for patients and their carers.
- Contribute to the development of high-quality services within Northumbria Healthcare.
- 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.
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, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? 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, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide skilled and knowledgeable care and advice to patients and their carers.
Complete assessments, planning, implementation and evaluation of direct care to patients.
Work with all members of the multidisciplinary team.
Engage with external agencies to provide a high quality service for patients and their carers.
Contribute to the development of high quality services within Northumbria Healthcare.
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide skilled and knowledgeable care and advice to patients and their carers.
Complete assessments, planning, implementation and evaluation of direct care to patients.
Work with all members of the multidisciplinary team.
Engage with external agencies to provide a high quality service for patients and their carers.
Contribute to the development of high quality services within Northumbria Healthcare.
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
- Professional registration with NMC / HCPC / GPC
- Diploma/ Degree relevant to registration
- Post Graduate qualification relevant to registration
- Recognised teaching/mentorship qualification
- Registered mentor
- Practitioner course or Advanced clinical skills training
- Must complete non medical prescriber course within 24 months of appointment
- Specialist area qualifications
- Relevant training related to specialist area
- Evidence of continued professional development
Desirable
- Masters Level of knowledge
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Substantial experience as practitioner.
- Worked within specialty area
Other Requirements
Essential
- You may also need to travel between Trust premises as required for the performance of your duties. You may also be expected to work at any of the trust sites. The Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional registration with NMC / HCPC / GPC
- Diploma/ Degree relevant to registration
- Post Graduate qualification relevant to registration
- Recognised teaching/mentorship qualification
- Registered mentor
- Practitioner course or Advanced clinical skills training
- Must complete non medical prescriber course within 24 months of appointment
- Specialist area qualifications
- Relevant training related to specialist area
- Evidence of continued professional development
Desirable
- Masters Level of knowledge
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Substantial experience as practitioner.
- Worked within specialty area
Other Requirements
Essential
- You may also need to travel between Trust premises as required for the performance of your duties. You may also be expected to work at any of the trust sites. The Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.
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).
