Enhanced Nurse Practitioner

Main area Nurse Grade NHS AfC:
Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Successful applicant will be required to work a variety of shift patterns over a 24/7 period) Job  

Employer Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Bensham Hospital Town Bensham Salary £49,387 - £56,515 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 21/09/2026 23:59

In the event of excessive applications being received this vacancy may close earlier than the stated closing date, you are encouraged to submit your application as soon as possible

IMPORTANT NOTE ON COMPLETION OF REFERENCE SECTION OF APPLICATION FORM

All references from current and previous employers will be sought and MUST cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Where possible this should be from two separate employers. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.

PLEASE NOTE it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their DBS certificate if a check is required for the post. This will be done through deduction from your monthly pay over a maximum of three months. It is also a requirement that all successful applicants register or are registered with the DBS update service where a DBS is required.

All new entrants to the NHS will be appointed on the minimum of the pay scale in line with Terms & Conditions.

This post is a Band 7 Enhanced Nurse Practitioner within the Rapid Response Nursing Team in Gateshead.

To work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team to manage patients identified as requiring an urgent community response to prevent a deterioration in their health and wellbeing. In addition, there will be planned activity to prevent avoidable admission to hospital and facilitate early supported discharge, where clinically appropriate.

This post is a senior autonomous clinician who will ensure the fundamentals of care are provided at the point of contact and will ensure delivery of a range of appropriate interventions to be able to meet the needs of the patients, within the community setting. Patients accessing the service will have complex needs and potentially numerous co-morbidities including frailty.

The autonomous practitioner will provide comprehensive healthcare sensitive to the needs of the population, responsible for senior clinical decisions, including advanced clinical assessments, history taking, diagnosing, planning treatment, prescribing and evaluation of care.

Working as part of a multidisciplinary team and across the primary, secondary and social care interfaces in Gateshead and will be responsible for coordinating and meeting the health care needs of people at risk of hospitalisation or requiring a more intensive level of care in the unscheduled, intermediate, palliative and EOL care environment.

Ensure the right care, is delivered at the right time, by the right person.

Ensure safe, caring, effective, well led and responsive care.

Role model ICORE values and behaviours.

Uphold the NMC Professional Code of Conduct at all times.

Support the Rapid Response Team lead to deliver high quality, patient centred care to Gateshead residents.

Support the team lead to manage the service on a day to day basis.

Act as/support the senior clinical decision maker for the team's Single Point of Access.

Support the team to deliver an urgent 2 hour community response with an emphasis of ensuring patient safety through effective prioritisation.

Support the team to…