Emergency Nurse Practitioner

Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Berwick-upon-Tweed; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS organization that values staff experience as much as patient care. As an Emergency Nurse Practitioner in Berwick, you'll provide autonomous care in a supportive environment. This role offers opportunities for professional development and leadership within a nurse-led unit. With a focus on innovation and quality, you'll be part of a team dedicated to delivering exceptional healthcare services. Enjoy a range of benefits including flexible working, generous leave, and access to training programs. If you're passionate about making a difference in healthcare, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Extensive staff health and well-being programme

Flexible working opportunities

Generous annual leave

Pension scheme

On-site nursery places

Access to savings scheme

Professional development training

Qualifications

• Must be a registered nurse with clinical skills qualification.
• Experience in A&E or minor injuries unit is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide autonomous care for patients with minor injuries.
• Support management of resources and lead in the absence of the manager.

Skills

Clinical Skills

Emergency Care Experience

Triage Skills

Compassionate Leadership

Education

1st Level Live NMC Registered Nurse

Diploma / Degree in Nursing

Mentorship Qualification

Tools

Nursing Protocols

Patient Management Systems

Job description

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). 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 and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you :

• Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
• Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
• A range of flexible working opportunities
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
• Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
• On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Job overview

Do you have a clinical skills qualification, experience of working within an A&E, urgent treatment unit or minor injuries unit?

We have a vacancy for an Emergency Nurse Practitioner working in Minor Injuries Unit within Berwick Infirmary Community Hospital. This is a Nurse led unit with daily support from our local GP practice. The development within this role aims for the practitioner to be autonomous in their practice.

There would be an opportunity to upgrade to B7 following successful completion on competencies including non-medical prescribing.

Annex 20
This post falls within the provisions of Agenda for Change Annex 20 - Development of Professional Roles, whereby upon completion of an agreed set of competencies you may move onto the next pay band without the need for an application for a post at a higher level.

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

• 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.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To develop the skills required to provide advanced clinical assessment of patients
• To triage patients, prioritising clinical need, highlighting and initiating treatment plans by following agreed Trust guidelines and protocols whilst under supervision
• To develop the skills to work autonomously, assessing individual patient needs, initiating investigations, determining a differential diagnosis and initiating appropriate holistic, evidence based treatment and care
• To provide senior nursing support on operational issues
• 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

• 1st Level Live NMC Registered Nurse
• Recognised teaching qualification e.g. PP126/127
• Mandatory training as required by the trust
• Mentorship Qualification or relevant equivalent qualification (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period).
• Diploma / degree in nursing
• IR(ME)R training

Experience

• Experience of emergency care
• Evidence of practice development
• Evidence of innovation in practice

Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the workplace (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.

Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!

Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name: Annaluisa Wood
Job title: Matron
Email address: [e-mail]
Telephone number: 07717881572
Additional information: Sue Gibson
MIU Manager
01289 356607