Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
Enhanced Nurse Practitioner
Gateshead
Posted about 23 hours ago
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Band 7 Enhanced Nurse Practitioner
Role Overview
This post is a Band 7 Enhanced Nurse Practitioner within the Rapid Response Nursing Team in Gateshead.
Key Responsibilities
- To work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team to manage patients identified as requiring an urgent community response to prevent a deterioration in their health and wellbeing.
- In addition, there will be planned activity to prevent avoidable admission to hospital and facilitate early supported discharge, where clinically appropriate.
Key Duties
- Ensure the fundamentals of care are provided at the point of contact.
- Ensure delivery of a range of appropriate interventions to meet the needs of the patients within the community setting.
- Patients accessing the service will have complex needs and potentially numerous co-morbidities including frailty.
- Provide comprehensive healthcare sensitive to the needs of the population.
- Responsible for senior clinical decisions, including advanced clinical assessments, history taking, diagnosing, planning treatment, prescribing, and evaluation of care.
- Working as part of a multidisciplinary team and across the primary, secondary, and social care interfaces in Gateshead.
- Responsible for coordinating and meeting the healthcare needs of people at risk of hospitalisation or requiring a more intensive level of care in the unscheduled, intermediate, palliative, and EOL care environment.
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Core Values and Commitments
- Ensure the right care, is delivered at the right time, by the right person.
- Ensure safe, caring, effective, well led, and responsive care.
- Role model ICORE values and behaviours.
- Uphold the NMC Professional Code of Conduct at all times.
- Support the Rapid Response Team lead to deliver high quality, patient-centred care to Gateshead residents.
- Support the team lead to manage the service on a day-to-day basis.
- Act as/support the senior clinical decision maker for the team's Single Point of Access.
- Support the team to deliver an urgent 2-hour community response with an emphasis on ensuring patient safety through effective prioritization.
- Support the team to deliver out-of-hours palliative care.
- Support the team to deliver intravenous antibiotics at home.
About Us
Based in the North East of England, we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre, and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.
- Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.
- We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.
- Our values should be the 'golden thread' which runs through everything we do – they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronym ICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.
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Staff Networks
- We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network, and the Women’s Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.
Staff Health and Wellbeing
- The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our ‘Balance’ programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.
Contact Information
For further details/informal visits, contact:
- Name: Ashley Jackson
- Job Title: Clinical Operations Manager
- Email Address: ashley.jackson@nhs.net
- Telephone Number: 07870400736
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Skills
Advanced Clinical Assessment
Prescribing
Diagnosing
Patient Care Planning
Care Evaluation
History Taking
Palliative Care
End of Life Care
Intravenous Antibiotics Administration
Clinical Decision Making
Multidisciplinary Teamwork
Patient Prioritisation
Community Nursing
Crisis Management
Care Coordination