Nurse Practitioner | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Hexham; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Hexham is seeking a professional to deliver high quality person-centred care within their Ambulatory Care/Elderly Care Assessment Unit. Responsibilities include managing a caseload of patients, coordinating staff, and overseeing the safe administration of medications. The role requires clinical skills and the ability to work effectively within a team. Ideal candidates will have experience in a similar healthcare setting and a commitment to patient-centered care.

Qualifications

• Experience in providing high quality person-centred care.
• Knowledge of venepuncture and cannulation.
• Ability to coordinate and manage a team effectively.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality person-centred care.
• Coordinate staff to ensure efficient department function.
• Supervise junior staff and offer guidance.

Job description

About the role

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our team in Ambulatory Care/Elderly Care Assessment Unit at Hexham. The department is a combination of the two specialties with patients often migrating between the two.

The Ambulatory care department sees a diverse caseload of patients from various specialities. Patients attend as day cases for the administration of intravenous medication, blood transfusions, venesections, specialised blood tests and ambulatory care pathways.

The Elderly Care Assessment Unit sees patients predominantly over the age of 65 and those with frailty and multiple co‑morbidities. Referrals are made from a variety of sources (NEAS/Community paramedics/GP's/UTC) and accepted same day or by appointment. Patients attend for falls and syncope assessment on a pre‑planned basis. The department facilitates a pathway for hospital admission for frail elderly patients that can be medically managed locally and avoiding A&E.

The department has a resident speciality doctor and on‑call consultant cover.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality person‑centred care.
• Maintain contemporary, relevant knowledge to underpin clinical practice.
• Maintain clinical skills and competence in venepuncture and cannulation.
• Rotate between the different clinical areas within the department, taking charge in the absence of department manager.
• Coordinate staff to ensure the department functions efficiently.
• Take appropriate steps to manage staff sickness/shortages to ensure that disruption to the department is minimal.
• Manage incident reports.
• Deal with concerns and complaints.
• Coordinate a caseload of patients within Ambulatory care to:
  • Ensure that patients receive appointments/treatments at appropriate intervals.
  • Liaise with HCPs from other specialities to ensure that prescriptions and drugs are available for administration.
  • Oversee the safe administration of medications in accordance with trust policy.
  • Supervise junior staff and offer suitable advice and guidance.
  • Be able to use relevant IT systems to inform safe and effective care.
  • Complete electronic discharge summaries.
  • Accept and triage telephone and electronic referrals.
  • Arrange and review in a timely fashion dependent on clinical need.
  • Liaise with the Patient Flow team and the wider MDT to ensure that patients are assessed and treated efficiently allowing seamless flow throughout the department.

This advert closes on Wednesday 3 Dec 2025.