Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Community Nurse Practitioner
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We are looking for an enthusiastic, dedicated nurse to join our team and work with us to deliver an evidence-based, clinically effective service for our patients in their own homes.
The service is part of an integrated community pathway for patients offering a crisis response and supporting with unplanned care. The service will provide an integrated approach to care of patients in the community by using a holistic approach and providing a multidisciplinary assessment which will aim to ensure patients remain at home with appropriate health and social services support.
The post holder will be part of a wider Community Response Team and will use their clinical skills and non-medical prescribing to support patients to remain at home, avoid admission to hospital and offer hospital-based care to our patients on the Hospital at Home service.
- You will assess, plan and evaluate clients care including families and carers where appropriate.
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.
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To work as an autonomous practitioner and to provide expert clinical care for patients within community and rehabilitation settings. The service supports patients in West Northumberland, based in the Hexham area.
The post holder will have knowledge and skills in acute assessment, long-term conditions, frailty, physical assessment, clinical reasoning, diagnostic reasoning and independent prescribing. The post holder will use these skills within the community to assist in the recognition of early symptoms of LTC, exacerbation, acute illness and injuries.
The post holder will be expected to co-ordinate care for acutely unwell patients and navigate patients with frailty and LTC through pathways across the primary, community and secondary care interface. This will include the prevention of unnecessary admissions, facilitating appropriate discharges, and in-reaching into both acute and rehabilitation facilities.
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, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England.
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We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High-quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Linzie Sutherland
- Job title: Operational Manager
- Email address: Linzie.sutherland@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07542326587
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