Nurse Practitioner

Overview

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion. With a strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.

We provide a wide range of hospital and community services and support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit of an inclusive environment. We welcome applications irrespective of race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under-represented groups.

We are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to Net Zero by 2030 for our direct footprint and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus.

Delivering these ambitions will require the action of every team member.

Nurse Practitioner – Band 7

Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic Community Nurse Practitioner to work with colleagues in our Urgent Community Response/Hospital Avoidance Team. The post supports community services to assess and manage patients with urgent community needs in their home or residential setting to avoid unnecessary GP house visits and hospital admissions.

• Interview date: 10 February 2026
• 37 hours 30 minutes/week
• NO AGENCIES PLEASE

• The Community Nurse Practitioner is responsible and accountable for the delivery of nursing care to a defined caseload by utilising team management and organisational skills. This includes triaging and clinical assessment of the patient in their own home or a residential setting. The CNP may refer to another service including GP/another Community Team or Hospital as required. They are also expected to provide leadership, management and clinical supervision to the community team.
• Engage in the assessment of individual, family and community health care needs in partnership with patients. Plan, implement and evaluate health care programmes to meet identified needs within available resources, referring to team members and other agencies as appropriate.

We are a flexible working friendly organisation. We aim to accommodate flexible working arrangements where possible. With around 2 million contacts with patients each year, care is delivered from multiple sites including:

• 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 services include flagship care supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS. We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and other community sites.

Please see attached information on Staff Benefits under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’ and visit our Careers pages for more details.

• The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust defines a nurse practitioner as a qualified nurse whose primary role includes advanced patient assessment and clinical decision making in a broad patient group.
• Work towards the role of an independent nurse practitioner, delivering a quality service that matches clinical need to available resources within specialist nursing practice.
• Ensure the patient remains the central focus of a streamlined journey and that care quality is maintained.
• Provide prompt response to calls from colleagues,…