Senior Orthopaedic Nurse Practitioner

Fixed term contract/ secondment opportunity for 10 months

We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for experienced practitioners with advanced practice and prescribing skills to join our Orthopaedic Nurse Practitioner (ONP) team on a 10 month secondment or fixed term basis.

Skills

This role offers a unique chance to broaden and consolidate advanced clinical skills while working closely with the multidisciplinary orthopaedic team across all three areas of the Trust:

• Gately Ward
• Cringleford Ward
• Ashill NANOC Hub
• Outpatients
  
  

The post provides rich and varied experience across the full orthopaedic pathway, enabling the successful candidate to work within both emergency trauma care and planned elective services. You will be supported to develop autonomous practice, clinical decision making, and prescribing within a dynamic, high performing service.

Working alongside senior medical and nursing colleagues, you will play a key role in the assessment, diagnosis, treatment and discharge of orthopaedic patients, while contributing to service development and quality improvement. This opportunity is ideal for practitioners who are motivated to expand their scope of practice and gain exposure across multiple clinical environments.

If you are considering applying for this post on a secondment basis, please discuss with your Line Manager prior to applying to ascertain whether this could be supported.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Work autonomously as an Orthopaedic Nurse Practitioner, using advanced clinical skills to assess, diagnose, treat and manage patients across the orthopaedic pathway.
• Provide high quality clinical care to patients within emergency trauma and elective orthopaedic services, ensuring timely assessment and appropriate decision making.
• Undertake comprehensive patient assessments, including history taking, physical examination, formulation of differential diagnoses, and development of management and discharge plans.

Prescribe medications independently in line with non medical prescribing competencies, Trust policies, and evidence based practice.

Manage patients across multiple clinical areas, including Gately Ward, Cringleford Ward, and the Ashill NANOC Hub, working flexibly to meet service needs.

Review and monitor patients’ clinical progress, escalating concerns appropriately and coordinating care with the wider multidisciplinary team.

Support patient flow through effective clinical decision making, early discharge planning, and collaboration with ward and hub teams.

Work closely with consultants, junior doctors, nurses, therapists and allied health professionals to deliver safe, effective, and coordinated care.

Provide expert clinical advice and support to nursing and medical colleagues within scope of practice.

Maintain accurate, timely, and contemporaneous clinical documentation in line with Trust and professional standards.

Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!

The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.

We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity

We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:

• Flexible working hours
• Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service

Multi Faith prayer room

Discounted gym memberships

Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement

Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it

Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH site

Free 24-hours confidential counselling support

On-site Nursery

On-site cafes offering staff discounts

Support in career development

Flexible staff bank

Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lauren Walker Job title: Associate Nurse Director Email address: Lauren.walker@nnuh.nhs.uk

01603 286286 ext 4361