Trainee Stroke Nurse Practitioner/Stroke Nurse Practitioner

Northumbria Healthcare Nhs Foundation Trust; Cramlington; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Trainee Stroke Nurse Practitioner to join their dynamic team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to develop your skills in a supportive environment while working with a range of healthcare professionals. You will be involved in the triage and assessment of stroke patients, ensuring they receive the highest level of care. With a focus on professional development, the organization provides extensive training programs and a commitment to staff well-being. If you are passionate about stroke care and eager to advance your career, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Extensive health and well-being programme

Flexible working opportunities

Generous annual leave

Pension scheme

Access to lease car scheme

On-site nursery places

Savings scheme

Qualifications

• Essential to have recent experience in a Stroke service.
• Must be willing to undertake Clinical Skills/History Taking Training.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical assessment and triage for stroke patients.
• Initiate treatment plans and document care plans.

Skills

Clinical Assessment

Triage Skills

History Taking

Patient Care

Communication Skills

Education

1st Level NMC Registered Nurse

1st Level Degree in Nursing

Recognised Teaching Qualification

Job description

Job ref319-7053730MHEmployerNorthumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustEmployer typeNHSSiteNorthumbria Specialist Emergency care HospitalTownCramlingtonSalary£37,338 - £52,809 per annumSalary periodYearlyClosing27/03/2025 23:59

Employer heading

NHS AfC: Band 6

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you

Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub

Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups

A range of flexible working opportunities

Generous annual leave and pension scheme

Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)

Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes

On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice

Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

Whilst Northumbria Healthcare 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

The Trainee Stroke Nurse Practitioner/Stroke Nurse Practitioner will work alongside and be supported by one of our Band 7 Stroke Nurse Practitioners.

They will be supported to develop their skills and knowledge to support their practice within the Stroke Service. They will be required to complete clinical skills and history taking training and eventually the non medical prescribing course as well as a clinical competency portfolio.

The post will be based at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, working across the Hospital but based on the Hyperacute Stroke Unit (HASU) on Ward 6.

The post involves working as a Stroke Nurse Practitioner where you will be required to triage, assess and organise the care of suspected Stroke and TIA patients. You will work in partnership with the Stroke Consultant, Resident Doctors, Physicians Associate and other Stroke Nurse Practitioners.

Annex 20

This post falls within the provisions of Agenda for Change Annex 20 - Development of Professional Roles, whereby upon completion of an agreed set of competencies you may move onto the next pay band without the need for an application for a post at a higher level.

For further information on Annex 20, please see:

http://www.nhsemployers.org/tchandbook/annex-16-to-20/annex-20-development-of-professional-roles

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.

Main duties of the job

To develop the skills required to provide clinical assessment of patients. To triage patients, prioritising clinical need, highlighting and initiating treatment plans by following agreed Trust guidelines and protocols whilst under supervision. To develop the skills to work autonomously, assessing individual patient needs, initiating investigations, determining a differential diagnosis and initiating appropriate holistic, evidence based treatment and care. 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

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Trainee Stroke Nurse Practitioner will work as part of the wider Stroke Northumbria Team. They will with undertake assessment of patients face to face or via telephone triage. This will include tasks such as:

Clinical History Taking

Clinical Examination

Requesting Investigations

Interpreting Investigation Results

Initiating Treatments including Prescribing (once V300 obtained)

Discussing Treatment Escalation and Resuscitation with patients and their relatives.

Documenting Individualised Care Plans for Patients.

All of this will be done whilst working within the larger practitioner workforce and other healthcare professionals as part of the wider MDT.

We welcome individuals who are passionate about Stroke care with an interest to progress their careers within this speciality. It is essential for applicants to have recent experience of working within a Stroke service.

Individuals must be willing to undertake Clinical Skills/History Taking Training (Likely via the Enhanced Clinical Practitioner Apprenticeship) and Non-Medical Prescribing - if they do not already hold these qualifications.

On completion of the required academic training and clinical competency portfolio the trainee will be promoted to a Band 7 Stroke Nurse Practitioner.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

1st Level NMC Registered Nurse

Recognised teaching qualification, e.g. ENB 998/941

1st level degree in nursing/equivalent

Diploma/Degree in nursing/health studies.

ENB 923 Practice development in stroke care

ENB 941 Care of the Older Person or equivalent experience and or qualification

Desirable criteria

Nurse prescriber

Other

Essential criteria

You may also need to travel between Trust premises as required for the performance of your duties. You may also be expected to work at any of the trust sites. The Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role

Experience

Essential criteria

Substantial experience as senior nurse

Previous experience as a nurse practitioner, specialist nurse.

Experience of working in nurse led clinics/units

Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.

Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!

Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.