Nurse Practitioner

Nurse Practitioner

The closing date is 01 February 2026

Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are seeking to recruit a highly motivated and enthusiastic Community Nurse Practitioner to work alongside 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 admission.

• Interview date: 10th February 2026
• 37 hours 30 minutes/week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.

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 will include triaging and clinical assessment of the patient either in their own home or a residential setting. The CNP will then, depending on the patient's condition, 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.
• To 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 need, within available resources, referring to team members and other agencies as appropriate.

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.

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Freeman Hospital
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting‑edge care (supported by state‑of‑the‑art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.

• The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust define a nurse practitioner as a qualified nurse where the primary purpose of the 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.

Possession of a full UK driving licence and use of a car for work purposes is essential to the role.

• Registered Nurse (appropriate to branch)
• Current NMC…