Nurse Practitioner

Newcastle Hospitals; Newcastle upon Tyne; Remote; GBP 38,000 - 56,000; Part time

Job summary

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking two part-time Nurse Practitioners to join the Specialist Care Home Support Team. The roles involve coordinated multi-disciplinary clinical support for residents with complex needs and frailty, and involve lead roles in advanced decision making and care planning.

Post 1 is 34 hours per week and Post 2 is 28.5 hours per week, with a focus on delivering high-quality clinical assessment and care within the care home setting.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration.
• Working towards Nurse Practitioner qualification or equivalent.
• Diploma plus specialist qualifications / experience within specialist area.
• Degree level study encouraged where possible.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical and non-clinical support and sign posting to other services after referral into the service.
• Complete frailty focused Comprehensive Baseline Assessments.
• Provide time-limited enhanced case management for patients with complex needs and multiple consultations.
• Undertake clinical physical assessments when required.
• Meet with residents and families to discuss advance care planning and write plans.
• Weekly MDT review of complex cases with consultants and specialists.
• Attend GP care home rounds and provide specialist nursing advice.
• Provide End of Life Care support to nursing staff.

Skills

Independent working

Multi-disciplinary team

Time management

Effective communication

Driving licence

Education

Registered Nurse

NMC registration

Diploma + specialist qualifications

Nurse Practitioner qualification pathway

Clinical Skills Course

Non-medical prescribing

Mentorship standards

Health-related degree

Independent nurse prescribing course

Job description

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Nurse Practitioner

The closing date is 10 November 2026

We currently have 2 part time vacancies.

Post 1 34 hours / week

post 2 28.5 hours / week

We are a specialist nursing service for care homes within Newcastle upon Tyne for residents living with multiple long-term conditions and frailty who are experiencing worsening health due to increasing complexity of needs and require a defined period of focused, enhanced multi-disciplinary clinical support and oversight.

The Specialist Care Home Support Team delivers proactive, multidisciplinary clinical support, working in partnership with the care home nursing team, GP's and other community and acute services. We offer advice and support, provide personalised holistic care and advance care planning. The team is supported by a Speciality doctor in Palliative Medicine. We coordinate a weekly multi-disciplinary meeting attended by a Consultant Geriatrician, old Age Psychiatry and other health care professionals to discuss care home residents with complex needs. We also support the care home link GP by attending the weekly ward round.

We aim to enhance the lives of care home residents and avoid unnecessary hospital admissions.

The role is varied and rewarding caring for a complex patient group who's needs are often overlooked.

Main duties of the job

Clinical / non clinical support and sign posting to other services where appropriate following referral into the service.

Complete frailty focused Comprehensive Baseline Assessments

Provide time limited enhanced case management for patients with complex clinical , safe guarding or family related needs, requiring multiple consultations and coordination across services to support care planning and advanced decision making.

Undertake clinical physical assessments when required.

Meet with residents and their families to discuss advance care planning, including writing Emergency Health Care Plans, Treatment Escalation Plans and Advanced Statements.

Weekly MDT review of complex cases, bringing together specialist clinicians to optimise care, support advance care planning and decision making, with referrers invited to attend the meeting.

Attend the weekly G.P care home rounds alongside the GP. Complete clinical assessments and provide specialist nursing advice and support.

Provide End of Life Care support to the nursing staff.

About us

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Freeman Hospital
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state‑of‑the‑art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.

For further information on Careers at The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit our website: Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Job responsibilities

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust define a nurse practitioner as a qualified nurse where the primary purpose of role is to perform a specific technological procedure/s e.g. endoscopy, ultrasound in a defined patient group and/or advanced patient assessment and clinical decision making in a broad patient group.

To work towards the role of an independent nurse practitioner, contributing towards the delivery of a quality service matching clinical need to available resources within the focus of specialist nursing practice:

• To ensure that the patient is the central focus of a streamlined patient journey ensuring optimal quality of care.
• Will provide a prompt response to calls from colleagues, prioritising importance and clinical need.
• Supports the clinical team to manage a defined caseload, activity to include assessment, investigation, diagnosis and treatment within defined protocols and training.
• Provide immediate care management of patient including communication of plan to patients and significant others.
• Review and refer to appropriate person, e.g. AHP, resident medical staff, specialist registrar or critical care outreach team.
• Liaises with Patient Services Coordinator.
• Communicate within multidisciplinary team, ward/departmental staff and/or out of hours team.
• Contributes to specialist education and training to ward departmental staff, nursing and medical students.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Education

• oRegistered Nurse (appropriate to branch)
• oCurrent NMC registration
• oDiploma plus specialist qualifications / experience within specialist area; prepared to take degree level study
• oWorking towards / prepared to work towards: oNurse Practitioner Qualification or equivalent
• oClinical Skills Course
• oNon-Medical prescribing if relevant to role
• oMeets Nursing and Midwifery Council standards for student supervision and assessment (formally Mentorship) if relevant to role
• oDegree in health related subject
• oHas undertaken and completed Non-medical independent nurse prescribing course

Knowledge & Experience

• oExtended clinical practice underpinned by training and assessment e.g. venepuncture, cannulation skills and intravenous drug administration
• oAudit / research experience
• oEvidence of on‑going continuous professional development
• oKnowledge and understanding of relevant NHS policy or project specific policy context
• oHas understanding / experience of adult / child safeguarding
• oResearch or audit experience
• oEvidence of contribution to education programmes and / or training

Skills & Abilities

• oAble to work independently and across disciplines as a member of a multi‑disciplinary team
• oEffective organisation and time management skills
• oCurrent driving licence if relevant to role
• oChange management skills and involvement in project work

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.

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