Night Nurse Practitioner Training Post

Bridgeway Health Services; Leicester; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in England is seeking a Night Nurse Practitioner for Berwick Infirmary. The role involves independent clinical assessments and management in the Urgent Treatment Centre, providing high-quality patient care while leading the night team.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Pension scheme

Flexible working opportunities

Access to training programmes

Qualifications

• Experience in A&E and urgent treatment environments.
• Registered Mentor with ongoing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Provide skilled care and advice to patients.
• Conduct assessments and implement care plans.
• Support ward with clinical issues overnight.

Skills

Clinical Assessment

Independent Practitioner

Team Collaboration

Education

Degree level study

1st Level Live NMC Registered Nurse

Job description

EmployerNorthumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustEmployer typeNHSSiteBerwick InfirmaryTownBerwick Upon TweedSalary£37,338 - £52,809 Band 7 on completion of competencies, prescribing & ALS.Salary periodYearlyClosing20/05/2025 23:59

Employer heading

NHS AfC: Band 6 Annex 20

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

We are looking to recruit a Night Nurse Practitioner to join our team working in Berwick Infirmary . The successful applicant must have a clinical assessment qualification with experience in working in A&E, Urgent treatment environment and have the skills to be an independent practitioner.

The Night practitioner team cover Urgent Treatment Centre and support the inpatient ward as hospital Clinical lead once UTC closes at Midnight. They will need to attend UTC overnight should anyone self present

The practitioners role is to provide independent advanced clinical assessment and management of patients in the Urgent Treatment Centre.

The practitioners are responsible for flow through the department and ensuring timely assessment, treatment, discharge and referrals where needed.

They are the senior nurse on site during the night and will support the ward with any clinical issues surrounding patient care

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.

For further information on Annex 20, please see:

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 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.

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, evidencebased 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 / Professional Registration

Essential criteria

1st Level Live NMC Registered Nurse

Registered Mentor

Degree level study with ongoing/continuing professional development

ENB998/730 or equivalent.

Desirable criteria

Minor Injuries qualification/experience

ILS (Advanced CPR/Trust one day training course)

Nurse prescribing course or willing to undertake

Nurse Practitioner qualification (NACAN Masters Level)

IRMER course

Experience and knowledge

Essential criteria

Appropriate senior clinical experience

Appropriate management experience

Evidence of continuing academic and professional development

Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools

Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods

Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (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!

Certificate of Sponsorship

Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

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.

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Applicant requirements

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.