Nurse Practitioner

Northumbria Group.; Ashington; Remote; GBP 43,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumbria Primary Care Ltd (NPC) is seeking a Nurse Practitioner to provide autonomous urgent care across our Health Centre network in Northumberland. You will work with the clinical lead to ensure high-quality care, audits and policy compliance while supporting a collaborative team.

The role involves leading nursing staff, coordinating on-duty activities, and contributing to service development. You will operate across NPC Wellway sites including Morpeth, Pegswood, Lynemouth and Newbiggin.

Qualifications

• Provide autonomous urgent care to patients.
• Work collaboratively with the team and liaise with the Nursing & AHP Clinical lead, responsible for audits and policy compliance.

Responsibilities

• Provide autonomous urgent care to patients who present to the Health Centre.
• Work across NPC Wellway sites: Morpeth, Pegswood, Lynemouth & Newbiggin.
• Provide holistic care from assessment to discharge or referral.
• Support department management; contribute to business planning.
• Role model compassionate leadership to promote teamwork and quality improvement.

Skills

Autonomous practice

Urgent care experience

Nurse practitioner

Leadership

Clinical decision making

Coordination of nursing staff

Job description

Please note that NPC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The successful applicant will be an employee of the subsidiary and not Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

Whilst appointees will have a base practice within NPC, they may be asked to work at other practices across our group. We do however limit this as much as possible as we appreciate continuity is vital to effective primary care.

Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It’s open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.

Whilst NPC 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

Provide a holistic approach to patients, including assessment, diagnosis, planning and implementation of high-quality care.

To work collaboratively within the team to meet the needs of patients using evidence based care principals. Liaising with the Nursing & AHP Clinical lead, responsible for ensuring required audits are completed and all practice staff comply with local and national policy.

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.

Please note, for Secondment roles before an application is submitted, please ensure you have received the appropriate approval and completed documentation required beforehand, as this may delay the process if an offer was to be made.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide autonomous urgent care to patients who present to the Health Centre.

The post holder will:

• Work across NPC Wellway sites, we have surgeries at Morpeth, Pegswood, Lynemouth & Newbiggin
• Be able to work autonomously within an extended nurse practitioner role.
• Provide a holistic approach to individuals including assessment, diagnosis, planning and implementation of high quality care up to the point of discharge or referral to another specialty
• Support to manage the department
• - HR responsibilities
• - Contribute to the business planning process
• Supervise and educate junior staff
• 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

Working for our organisation

Northumbria Primary Care Ltd (NPC) is a pioneering partnership with local GPs and now manages several GP practices with around 120,000 registered patients in Northumberland and North Tyneside.

Whilst appointees will have a base practice within NPC,they may be asked to work at other practices across our group. We do however limit this as much as possible as we appreciate continuity is vital to effective primary care.

Please note that NPC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Contributes to the work of the Health Centre through the provision of quality evidenced based nursing care and the appropriate use and deployment of resources
• To provide autonomous critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning when making clinical decisions
• Undertake the management of patients over a period of time and organise appropriate services, as well as delivering direct patient care
• Responsible for the co-ordination of nursing staff on duty
• Works collaboratively with other health and social care professionals across professional boundaries to ensure safe and effective practice