Community Nurse Practitioner

Overview

A vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking for an enthusiastic, dedicated nurse to join our team and work with us to deliver an evidence based, clinically effective service for patients in their own homes. The service is part of an integrated community pathway for patients offering a crisis response and supporting with unplanned care.

The service provides an integrated approach to care of patients in the community by using a holistic approach and providing a multidisciplinary assessment to help patients remain at home with appropriate health and social services support.

The post holder will be part of a wider Community Response Team and will use clinical skills and non-medical prescribing to support patients to remain at home, avoid hospital admission and offer hospital based care to our patients on the Hospital at Home service. You will assess, plan and evaluate clients’ care including families and carers where appropriate. Where applicable, the post holder will coordinate care for acutely unwell patients and navigate patients with frailty and long-term conditions through pathways across the primary, community and secondary care interface, with aims to prevent unnecessary admissions and facilitate appropriate discharges.

• Assess, plan and evaluate clients’ care including families and carers where appropriate.
• Work as an autonomous practitioner to provide expert clinical care for patients within community and rehabilitation settings.
• Use clinical skills and non-medical prescribing to support patients to remain at home and avoid admission to hospital.
• Coordinate care for acutely unwell patients and navigate patients with frailty and long-term conditions through pathways across primary, community and secondary care interfaces.
• Contribute to prevention of unnecessary admissions, facilitation of appropriate discharges, and in-reaching into acute and rehabilitation facilities.
• Prescribe safe, effective and appropriate medication as defined by legislative framework and/or agreed protocols and guidelines.
• Engage in multidisciplinary assessment and plan ongoing care to ensure patients remain independent where possible.

• Knowledge and skills in acute assessment, long-term conditions, frailty, physical assessment, clinical reasoning, diagnostic reasoning and independent prescribing.
• Ability to apply these skills within the community to assist in the recognition of early symptoms of LTC, exacerbation, acute illness and injuries.
• Experience coordinating care and services within primary care for patients during an acute illness episode and, where appropriate, supporting discharge from hospital.
• Ability to work in partnership with primary, secondary care and other agencies including the voluntary sector.
• Commitment to high quality patient care and patient experience.

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