Community Nurse Practitioner

To work as an autonomous practitioner and to provide expert clinical care for patients within community and rehabilitation settings. T

The post holder will have knowledge and skills in acute assessment, long term conditions, frailty, physical assessment, clinical reasoning,diagnostic reasoning and independent prescribing. The post holder will use these skills within the community to assist in the recognition of early symptoms of LTC, exacerbation, acute illness and injuries.

The post holder will be expected to co-ordinate care for acutely unwell patients and navigate patients with frailty and LTC through pathways across the primary, community and secondary care interface. This will include the prevention of unnecessary admissions, facilitating appropriate discharges, and in-reaching into both acute and rehabilitation facilities.

The post holder will undertake comprehensive assessment of the physical and psycho-social care needs of frail patients who may also have complex chronic disease. Formulating a clinical management plan. This will involve gathering and interpreting information, performing tests and analysing the results, arranging onward referral if deemed necessary.

The post holder will coordinate care and services to be delivered within primary care for patients during an acute episode of illness also if appropriate supporting discharge from hospital. Working in partnership with primary, secondary care and other appropriate agencies, including the voluntary sector.

The post holder will prescribe safe effective and appropriate medication as defined by legislative framework and/or agreed protocols and guidelines.

They will role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working andcollaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England.

We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Qualifications / Professional Registration

Experience and Knowledge

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