Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Practitioner / Trainee Nurse Practitioner
The closing date is 15 April 2026
We are a large team of practitioners working across the Emergency Surgery and Elective Care Business Units.
Our team currently consists of:
Advanced Nurse Practitioner Clinical Lead.
Band 7 Nurse Practitioners / Specialist Clinical Practitioners.
Physician Associates.
Band 6 Trainee Nurse Practitioners / Clinical Practitioners.
Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioners.
Trustwide post: Hexham / Wansbeck / North Tyneside / Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospitals.
The practitioner's role is to provide independent, advanced clinical assessment and management of patients from admission to discharge. This role involves working independently of medical staff or remote assistance.
Practitioners provide senior clinical and non-clinical leadership to departments, wards and the site where they work.
These posts will predominantly be based within the orthopaedic team, rotating between Hexham, Wansbeck, North Tyneside General, and NSECH sites.
While the practitioners cover base sites (North Tyneside, Wansbeck, and Hexham General Hospitals), they are key members of the cardiac arrest team.
Annex 20 applies: 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.
Main duties of the job
Provide skilled and knowledgeable care and advice to patients and their carers.
Complete assessments, planning, implementation and evaluation of direct care to patients.
Work with all members of the multidisciplinary team.
Engage with external agencies to provide a high-quality service for patients and their carers.
Contribute to the development of high-quality services within Northumbria Healthcare.
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 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.
Qualifications
* Professional registration with NMC / HCPC / GPC
* Degree level of knowledge relevant to registration
* Recognised teaching/ mentorship qualification
* Evidence of continued professional development.
* Must be willing to complete an Advanced Clinical Assessment Course.
* 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).
* Practice development course / qualification or equivalent Clinical skills training
* Nurse prescriber.
* Post Graduate Qualification.
Experience
* Experience as a nurse working in specialist area
Other
* You may also need to travel between Trust premises as required for the performance of your duties. You may also be expected to work at any of the trust sites. 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.
Address
Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital – Trustwide post
£39,959 to £56,515 a year
Annex 20 applies
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full‑time, Part‑time, Flexible working, Compressed hours
Reference number
319‑7885604JA
Job locations
Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital – Trustwide post
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