Community Nurse Practitioner

Northumbria Healthcare Nhs Foundation Trust; Holywell; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an enthusiastic nurse to join our Community Response Team on a fixed term/secondment basis for 12 months, delivering evidence-based, clinically effective care in Intermediate Care Units and Hospital at Home services.

The role involves autonomous practice, non-medical prescribing, and coordinating care across primary, community and secondary care to keep patients at home and avoid hospital admission, with a focus on frailty and LTC management.

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with evidence-based clinical skills
• Experience in acute assessment, frailty and long-term conditions
• Ability to work autonomously and with non-medical prescribing

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan and evaluate patient care in community and rehabilitation settings.
• Coordinate care across primary, community and secondary care interfaces to prevent unnecessary admissions.
• Provide expert clinical care as an autonomous practitioner within Hospital at Home and Intermediate Care units

Skills

Nursing

Clinical assessment

Independent prescribing

Education

NMC registered nurse

Job description

We are looking for an enthusiastic, dedicated nurse to join our team on a fixed term /Secondment basis for 12 month and work with us to deliver an evidence based, clinically effective service for our patients in the Intermediate Care Units.

The service is part of an integrated community pathway for patients offering a crisis response and supporting with unplanned care. The service will provide an integrated approach to care of patients in the community by using a holistic approach and providing a multidisciplinary assessment which will aim to ensure patients remain at home with appropriate health and social services support.

The post holder will be part of a wider Community Response Team and will use their clinical skills and non-medical prescribing to support patients to remain at the Intermediate Care units , avoid admission to hospital and offer hospital based care to our patients on the Hospital at Home service.

You will assess, plan and evaluate clients care including families and carers where appropriate., To work as an autonomous practitioner and to provide expert clinical care for patients within community 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 LTC, exacerbation, acute illness and injuries.

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.

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.