Nurse Practitioner

NHS; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Newcastle upon Tyne is seeking a Nurse Practitioner to join their dynamic team. You will provide holistic care to patients in care homes, work on advanced health care planning, and support multidisciplinary teams. Applicants must have a valid UK driving license and current NMC registration. This role offers flexible working arrangements to meet the needs of patients and the organization. Responsibilities include managing a caseload, conducting assessments, and collaborating with healthcare professionals.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Ongoing professional development

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Current NMC registration required.
• Diploma plus specialist qualifications/experience within specialist area.
• Ongoing continuous professional development.

Responsibilities

• Perform advanced patient assessment and clinical decision making.
• Manage a defined caseload including assessment and treatment.
• Provide immediate care management including communication of plans.

Skills

Nursing skills

Effective organisation

Time management

Venepuncture

Cannulation

Education

Registered Nurse

Nurse Practitioner Qualification

Degree in health related subject

Job description

Nurse Practitioner

The closing date is 28 December 2025

This is a unique opportunity to join a team of nurses and nurse practitioners to support a defined caseload of patients residing in care homes throughout Newcastle.

No two days are the same, you need to be adaptable and flexible to provide safe, evidence based holistic care.

We provide planned face to face clinical care and planned assessments responding to the changing needs of our patients.

Our nurses are involved in advanced health care planning with patients and their families with the aim of avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions. We also support end of life palliative care patients and patients with complex, long term conditions.

We work alongside members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team, supporting the linked GP's on weekly ward rounds, and the wider community teams. The team facilitates a weekly virtual Geriatrician M.D .T meeting with patients referred by health care professionals throughout the community.

We support a team of community nurses offering support and guidance.

The team also provides specialist advice and support to a range of qualified and non-qualified staff in the care home settings.

We are a dynamic team, working autonomously to assess patients who present with an acute clinical need and ensure patients with long term conditions are receiving appropriate care.

Applicants must have a full UK Driving License and access to a vehicle.

Main duties of the job

• Interview date: 13th January 2026
• 30 hours/week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
• Essential nursing skills ( inc catheter care, wound care, end of life care, bladder scanning, phlebotomy).
• Create and implement Emergency Health Care Plans with patients and their families.
• Assist the GP with the weekly ward round in the care home.
• New assessments, reassessments and reviews following hospital discharge.

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 The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and 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.

Qualifications & Education

• Registered Nurse (appropriate to branch)
• Current NMC registration
• Diploma plus specialist qualifications / experience within specialist area; prepared to take degree level study
• Working towards / prepared to work towards:
  • Nurse Practitioner Qualification or equivalent
  • Clinical Skills Course
  • Non-Medical prescribing if relevant to role
  • Meets Nursing and Midwifery Council standards for student supervision and assessment (formally Mentorship) if relevant to role
  • Degree in health related subject
  • Has undertaken and completed Non-medical independent nurse prescribing course

Knowledge & Experience

• Extended clinical practice underpinned by training and assessment e.g. venepuncture, cannulation skills and intravenous drug administration
• Audit / research experience
• Evidence of on‑going continuous professional development
• Knowledge and understanding of relevant NHS policy or project specific policy context
• Has understanding / experience of adult / child safeguarding
• Research or audit experience
• Evidence of contribution to education programmes and / or training

Skills & Abilities

• Able to work independently and across disciplines as a member of a multi‑disciplinary team
• Effective organisation and time management skills
• Current driving licence if relevant to role
• Change 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.

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust