Emergency Nurse Practitioner

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Ashington; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the North of England is seeking an Emergency Nurse Practitioner to work autonomously in treating minor injuries and illnesses at local hospitals. This role requires a 1st level registered general nurse with emergency care experience and a teaching qualification. The candidate will provide leadership within the Urgent Treatment Centres, ensuring high-quality patient care and effective resource management. A commitment to continuous personal and professional development is also essential.

Qualifications

• Must be a registered general nurse with teaching qualification.
• Evidence of qualification to supervise and assess students.
• IR(ME)R training is required.

Responsibilities

• Provide autonomous care to patients with minor injuries and illnesses.
• Support department management and resource effectiveness.
• Role model leadership within the team and organization.

Skills

Experience in emergency care

Knowledge of coaching and mentoring practices

Quality improvement techniques

Education

1st level registered general nurse

Recognised teaching qualification

Diploma / degree in nursing

Job description

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Emergency Nurse Practitioner

The closing date is 01 January 2026

We are looking for nurse practitioners who ideally have experience in minor injury/illness and major illness skills and can work alongside Consultants, General Practitioners, practitioners, staff nurses and healthcare assistants in our Urgent Treatment Centres at Wansbeck general Hospital & North Tyneside General Hospital

We are looking for an autonomous practitioner who is happy to work independently treating a varied group of patients. We promote a culture of inclusive leadership and are keen to continually develop our staff.

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

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

• Provide autonomous care to a caseload of patients and to provide verbal and written handovers to nursing colleagues and the multi-disciplinary team.
• Provide nursing care to an advanced level.

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 centers. 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 responsibilities

• To provide autonomous care in the diagnosis, treatment, and the discharge of patients attending the minor injury unit with minor injuries and illnesses within agreed trust protocols.
• To support the department manager in the effective management of resources.
• To assume responsibility for the devolved management the minor injury unit in the absence of the department manager.
• 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 topromote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• 1 st level registered general nurse
• Recognised teaching qualification e.g. PP126/127
• Mandatory training as required by the trust
• Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching and assessing of students (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period unless post is bank only
• Diploma / degree in nursing
• IR(ME)R training

Qualifications

• Experience of emergency care
• Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tool
• Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods

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.

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Wansbeck General Hospital and North Tyneside General Hospital

Wansbeck General Hospital and North Tyneside General Hospital