Nurse Practitioner | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS organization in Newcastle upon Tyne seeks a nurse practitioner to join their team and provide patient-focused care in care homes. This role requires essential nursing skills such as catheter care and wound care, along with holistic care experience. You will be involved in advanced health care planning to prevent hospital admissions, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, and assist with GP ward rounds. This position embraces flexible working arrangements, allowing for a balance between service needs and personal preferences.

Qualifications

• Applicants must have a full UK Driving License and access to a vehicle.
• Experience in holistic care and advanced health care planning.

Responsibilities

• Support a defined caseload of patients in care homes.
• Provide face-to-face clinical care and planned assessments.
• Assist GP with weekly ward rounds in care home.
• Implement Emergency Health Care Plans with patients and families.

Skills

Essential nursing skills

Catheter care

Wound care

End of life care

Bladder scanning

Phlebotomy

Assessment skills

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Job description

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.

• 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).
• Complete discharge reviews.
• Complete Comprehensive Baseline Assessments.
• 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.

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
• Cramlington Manor Walks
• Urgent treatment centres
• 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

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 hour’s team.
• Contributes to specialist education and training to ward departmental staff, nursing and medical students.

This advert closes on Sunday 28 Dec 2025