Band 6 The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust define a nurse practitioner as a qualified nurse where the primary.....
Band 6 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. Band 7 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 e.g. H@N, pre assessment. To deliver a quality of 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. -Working as a nurse practitioner, provide a prompt response to calls from colleagues, prioritising importance and clinical need. -Manage own caseload to include assessment, investigation, diagnosis and treatment within defined parameters 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. -Liaising with Patient Services Coordinator where necessary. -Communicate within multidisciplinary team, ward/departmental staff and/or out of hours team. -Provide specialist education and training to departmental nursing staff, nursing and medical students. Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate.The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first months pay. 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.
