Job summary
- Main area
- Urgent Treatment Centre
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-6479434PM
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Tyneside General Hospital
- Town
- North Shields
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Emergency Nurse Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 7
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.
Job overview
Opportunity for nurse practitioners with minor injury/illness and major illness skills to work with a team including General Practitioners, nurse practitioners, staff nurses and healthcare assistants in our Urgent Treatment Centre at North Tyneside General Hospital including support of the new streaming service at the Northumbria Emergency Care Hospital in Cramlington.
We are looking for an autonomous practitioner who is happy to work independently treating a varied group of patients. We promote a culture of inclusive leadership and are keen to continually develop our staff.
Please note: this role may require assessment centre or psychometric tests.
Main duties of the job
- To apply advanced knowledge and skills during the management and provision of patient care, working within defined parameters. Lead specialist in Urgent Care.
- To support the Department Manager in her accountability of the department, members of staff, pay and non pay budget.
- To independently triage, assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care in partnership with the patient and the multidisciplinary team.
- To discharge patients or refer to appropriate department.
- To promote health with all patients and carers
- To take responsibility on a regular basis for the organisation and co-ordination of nursing services in the department in the absence of senior nurses.
- To deliver governance standards in line with the ‘Essence of Care Standards’ and the Trust’s Governance framework.
- Ensuring the delivery of ‘Compassion in Practice’ – Nursing.
- Midwifery and Care Staff Vision and Strategy, incorporating the 6C’s
- To work within Trust Patient Group Directions.
- To practice with in Emergency Nurse Practitioner Policies.
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 application.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To assume responsibility for the assessment of care needs, the implementation of evidence based programmes of care after examination, investigation and diagnoses, providing accurate treatment.
- To supervise, support and educate junior members of nursing and medical staff.
- To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
- To be responsible for all nursing care standards and to maintain high clinical standards.
- To work within the Emergency Care Centres for Northumbria Healthcare Trust.
- 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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 1st Level Registered Nurse/ HCPC Registered/ AHP
- Registered Mentor / ENB 998 or PP126/ 127
- Teaching certificate 998/997 PP 122/123 or 7307 with teaching experience or equivalent
- Diploma
- ENB 199 or University equivalents
- Emergency Nurse Practitioner Course or equivalent experience
- ENB 199 or University equivalents
- IRMER Course (to be completed within first six weeks of appointment if not already achieved
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial post registration experience
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Maria Towart
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07429488075
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Northumbria House
Unit 7/8 Silverfox Way
Cobalt Business Park
NE27 0QJ
- Telephone
- 0191 203 1415
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