Nurse Practitioner

We are a team of practitioners working across the Medicine Emergency Care Business Unit at Northumbria providing care and treatment to the patients presenting to the Emergency Department at our Specialist Emergency Care Hospital and also supporting the Hospital at Night team.

Our Team Currently Consists Of

• Band 7 Nurse Practitioners / Band 7 Specialist Clinical Practitioners.
• Band 6 Trainee Nurse Practitioners / Band 6 Clinical Practitioners The practitioner team cover a number of different sites, wards and departments within the business unit.
  
  

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.

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.

The practitioners role is to provide independent advanced clinical assessment and management of patients in the Emergency Department.

The practitioners are responsible for flow through the department and ensuring timely assessment, treatment, discharge and referrals where needed.

While the practitioners are covering base sites (North Tyneside General Hospital, Wansbeck General Hospital they are key member

s of the cardiac arrest team and the senior nurse on site.

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. 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: Nikki Oliver Job title: Lead Night Nurse Practitioner Email address: nicola.oliver@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07970853998

Joe Maddox - Operational Service Manager, jayne.blackburn@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk

Laura Newcombe - Modern Matron laura.black@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk

Nicola Oliver - Lead Night Nurse Practitioner, nicola.oliver@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk