Nurse Practitioner
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Registered Nurse · viaNHS Jobs
£39959.00 to £48117.00
- Closing date
- 10 Nov 2026
- Posted
- Today
- Specialism
- Registered Nurse
- Sector
- Healthcare
- Reference
- nhs-5692799
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Job summary
We currently have 2 part time vacancies.
Post 1 34 hours / week
post 2 28.5 hours / week
We are a specialist nursing service for care homes within Newcastle upon Tyne for residents living with multiple long-term conditions and frailty who are experiencing worsening health due to increasing complexity of needs and require a defined period of focused, enhanced multi-disciplinary clinical support and oversight.
The Specialist Care Home Support Team delivers proactive, multidisciplinary clinical support, working in partnership with the care home nursing team, GP's and other community and acute services. We offer advice and support, provide personalised holistic care and advance care planning. The team is supported by a Speciality doctor in Palliative Medicine. We coordinate a weekly multi-disciplinary meeting attended by a Consultant Geriatrician, old Age Psychiatry and other health care professionals to discuss care home residents with complex needs. We also support the care home link GP by attending the weekly ward round.
We aim to enhance the lives of care home residents and avoid unnecessary hospital admissions.
The role is varied and rewarding caring for a complex patient group who's needs are often overlooked.
- Interview Date Wednesday 25 November 2026
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Main duties of the job
Clinical / non clinical support and sign posting to other services where appropriate following referral into the service.
Complete frailty focused Comprehensive Baseline Assessments
Provide time limited enhanced case management for patients with complex clinical , safe guarding or family related needs, requiring multiple consultations and coordination across services to support care planning and advanced decision making.
Undertake clinical physical assessments when required.
Meet with residents and their families to discuss advance care planning, including writing Emergency Health Care Plans, Treatment Escalation Plans and Advanced Statements.
Weekly MDT review of complex cases, bringing together specialist clinicians to optimise care, support advance care planning and decision making, with referrers invited to attend the meeting.
Attend the weekly G.P care home rounds alongside the GP. Complete clinical assessments and provide specialist nursing advice and support.
Provide End of Life Care support to the nursing staff.
About us
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:
- Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
- Freeman Hospital
- Newcastle Dental Hospital
- Cramlington Manor Walks
- Urgent treatment centres
- Newcastle Fertility Centre
- Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
- Northern Genetics Service
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.
For further information on Careers at The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit our website: Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Details
Date posted
28 October 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£39,959 to £48,117 a year pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
317-2026-44-02-DR
Job locations
Regent Point Community Base
317 Regent Point
NE3 3HD
United Kingdom
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust define a nurse practitioner as a qualified nurse where the primary purpose of role is to perform a specific technological procedure/s e.g. endoscopy, ultrasound in a defined patient group and/or advanced patient assessment and clinical decision making in a broad patient group.
To work towards the role of an independent nurse practitioner, contributing towards the delivery of a quality service matching clinical need to available resources within the focus of specialist nursing practice:
- To ensure that the patient is the central focus of a streamlined patient journey ensuring optimal quality of care.
- Will provide a prompt response to calls from colleagues, prioritising importance and clinical need.
- Supports the clinical team to manage a defined caseload, activity to include assessment, investigation, diagnosis and treatment within defined protocols and training.
- Provide immediate care management of patient including communication of plan to patients and significant others.
- Review and refer to appropriate person, e.g. AHP, resident medical staff, specialist registrar or critical care outreach team.
- Liaises with Patient Services Coordinator.
- Communicate within multidisciplinary team, ward/departmental staff and/or out of hours team.
- Contributes to specialist education and training to ward departmental staff, nursing and medical students.
Job responsibilities
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust define a nurse practitioner as a qualified nurse where the primary purpose of role is to perform a specific technological procedure/s e.g. endoscopy, ultrasound in a defined patient group and/or advanced patient assessment and clinical decision making in a broad patient group.
To work towards the role of an independent nurse practitioner, contributing towards the delivery of a quality service matching clinical need to available resources within the focus of specialist nursing practice:
- To ensure that the patient is the central focus of a streamlined patient journey ensuring optimal quality of care.
- Will provide a prompt response to calls from colleagues, prioritising importance and clinical need.
- Supports the clinical team to manage a defined caseload, activity to include assessment, investigation, diagnosis and treatment within defined protocols and training.
- Provide immediate care management of patient including communication of plan to patients and significant others.
- Review and refer to appropriate person, e.g. AHP, resident medical staff, specialist registrar or critical care outreach team.
- Liaises with Patient Services Coordinator.
- Communicate within multidisciplinary team, ward/departmental staff and/or out of hours team.
- Contributes to specialist education and training to ward departmental staff, nursing and medical students.
What you need to do now
Applications are handled by The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on their own site — BOQQS does not collect CVs or hold your application. This listing closes on 10 Nov 2026.
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