Nurse Practitioner

Nurse Practitioner

The closing date is 19 July 2026

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Nurse Practitioner to join our Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) team to cover maternity leave. This role offers the opportunity to work autonomously within an acute setting, delivering high‑quality, patient‑centred care using established clinical pathways and guidelines.

The successful candidate will assess, diagnose, and manage patients presenting with a wide range of acute conditions, while also providing leadership, acting as a role model, and supporting the development of junior staff and ward teams.

• Independently assessing, taking history, and performing clinical examinations for patients presenting with acute and varied conditions
• Work within established clinical pathways and protocols to guide clinical decision‑making
• Order and interpret appropriate investigations in line with pathway‑based care
• Formulate and implement safe, evidence‑based management plans
• Escalate and discuss complex cases with senior clinicians or specialty teams when indicated
• Prescribe medications safely and appropriately in line with diagnosis and agreed treatment pathways
• Recognise and respond to clinical deterioration appropriately
• Facilitate safe discharge or admission in line with clinical pathways
• Complete clear and comprehensive discharge documentation, including diagnosis, investigations, and management plans
• Coordinate outpatient investigations, ensuring timely follow‑up, review of results, and appropriate action
• Communicate effectively with GPs and specialty teams, ensuring continuity of care and clear management plans
• Demonstrate strong time management and prioritisation skills, managing patient flow and acutely unwell patients effectively in a fast‑paced environment
• Actively participate in clinical audit, governance, and quality improvement initiatives when opportunities arise
• Support ward sisters and the wider nursing/medical team, contributing to safe and effective patient care
• Provide supervision, guidance, and support to junior staff and students
• Act as a role model, promoting high standards of clinical practice, professionalism, and patient‑centred care

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.

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust define a nurse practitioner as a qualified nurse 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 e.g. H@N, pre assessment.

To deliver a quality of 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.
• Working as a nurse practitioner, provide a prompt response to calls from colleagues, prioritising importance and clinical need.
• Manage own caseload to include assessment, investigation, diagnosis and treatment within defined parameters 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.
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