Nurse Practitioner​/Emergency Care Practitioner

Nurse Practitioner/Emergency Care Practitioner

The closing date is 12 March 2026

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are seeking to expand our Urgent Care provision following the opening of our new co‑located Urgent Treatment Centre at the Royal Victoria Infirmary.

We are now in an exciting position to further recruit a number of full and part‑time Nurse Practitioners / Emergency Care Practitioners who have extensive urgent care and/or primary care experience to our busy service. You will work across all three UTC sites – Molineux Street in Byker, Ponteland Road in Cowgate, and the Royal Victoria Infirmary which has a 24 hour practitioner presence – providing care for acute minor illness and injuries in an unscheduled care environment.

We look forward to hearing from you if you are a motivated, dynamic and positive thinking individual who would like to join us in this exciting new phase in urgent care. Please contact us for further information.

• Interview Date:
  Friday 20 March 2026
• Full & Part Time Hours/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 service is GP‑led and open 7 days a week. There are varied opening hours which are site specific with a 24‑hour presence at the co‑located RVI site. Our Nurse Practitioners and Emergency Care Practitioners work independently delivering care for all presenting complaints to all age ranges, both adults and children. They will receive an initial supernumerary period of training followed by ongoing support from the wider team of experienced NP's, ECP's and GPs.

These Band 7 posts are open to Registered Nurses and Allied Health Professionals who can demonstrate their ability to work in an urgent, unscheduled care environment. You will need to have the ability to undertake assessment, diagnosis, treatment/referral and discharge of patients with minor illness and minor injuries. A qualification in clinical skills is essential and Non‑Medical Prescribing and the ability to read and interpret X‑Rays would be desirable.

Consideration for a Band 6 role will be given to applicants who are able to demonstrate experience in urgent and/or primary care and a full training and development package will be provided, including access to clinical skills courses. Dependent on experience, the successful candidate will progress to Band 7 upon completion of competencies with a maximum timescale of 2 years.

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'.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit:
Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust define a nurse practitioner/Emergency Care Practitioner as a qualified nurse/AHP where the primary purpose of 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…