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Clinical Practitioner
The closing date is 06 August 2025
We are looking for enthusiastic, dedicated nurses to join our team and work with us to deliver an evidence based, clinically effective service for our patients in their own homes.
You will assess ,plan, and evaluate clients care including families and carers were appropriate
The service is part of an integrated community pathway for patients offering a crisis response. and supporting with unplanned care. The service will provide an integrated approach to care of patients in the community by using a holistic approach and providing a multidisciplinary assessment which will aim to ensure patients remain at home with appropriate health and social services support.
We also provide a patient centred approach to deliver comprehensive patient care for patients at home on the virtual ward, needing a 2 hour crisis response or unplanned care.The approach is preventative and reactive to a crisis and aims to work with the client's physical health, mental health and social care needs. The design of care is holistic and support is provided and wrapped around the client needs.
This post will work primarily in the area around Alnwick and Berwick but may function trustwide across North Tyneside and Northumberland.
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.
Main duties of the job
* The post holder will work within an MDT team working in the community in order to provide hospital level care to patient's in their usual place of residence.
* To be responsible and accountable for the delivery of nursing care to a defined caseload by using team management and organisational skills.
* To provide leadership, management and clinical supervision to staff, trainees and students and work in collaboration with the wider Acute and Primary Health Care Team.
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.
About us
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 centers. 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.
Job responsibilities
* To work within the community setting providing holistic nursing care as well as advice and support for patients, carers and families as appropriate.
* Responsible for the management of an identified case load and nursing
* Provide support, supervision and guidance to staff
* Maintain links and support to the nursing management team across Community.
To actively engage in inter-agency and multi-agency care planning
Person Specification
Qualifications
* 1st Level NMC Registered Nurse
* Degree in relevant subject or equivalent qualification and /or experience
* Recognised teaching/assessors/mentorship or Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching and assessing of students (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period)
* Willingness to maintain continuing professional development
* Relevant experience working in the community
* Management and leadership qualification
Experience and Knowledge
* Experience of managing a diverse caseload.
* Experience of palliative care and end of life care.
Other Requirements
* It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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