Job overview

An exciting opportunity has risen to work within the Community Response and Rehabilitation Team as a Specialist Nurse, we are a multidisciplinary team working in the community. It is a varied role which involves assessing patients in their own home , we also provide a two hour response for urgent visits required within the community and case management of complex patients. Our aim is to facilitate efficient discharges and reduce avoidable hospital admissions.

 We provide support over seven days 8.30am to 8.30pm therefore you would be expected to support out of hours working to enable hospital discharges to continue over 7 days and to continue to avoid hospital admission and enable patients to remain at home.

You will require experience of assessment, planning and delivering high quality patient care and demonstrate a range of NHS experience in a variety of specialities, including older people in a community setting. You will require good communication and interpersonal skills, and take an active role in the Supervision and training of undergraduate students and support staff.

Car driver essential.

• Interview Date: 14 July 2022
• Part Time : 29.5 hours / Permanent
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Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.

Newcastle Hospitals encourages all staff and volunteers who are appointed to join the Trust to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

Comprehensive Assessment in the community

Community discharge follow up visits

Collaborative working with stakeholder organizations within the hospital and community

Close MDT and interdisciplinary Team 

Teaching and assessing of Junior staff, other disciplines and students

We work over 7 days a week including bank holidays. We are looking for dynamic, enthusiastic staff who will thrive working in a varied, busy environment. 

You need to be able to work autonomously with a patient centered approach and have excellent clinical decision making and time management skills. 

You will require experience of assessment, planning and delivering high quality patient care and demonstrate a range of NHS experience in a variety of specialties, including older people in a community setting. You will require good communication and interpersonal skills, and take an active role in the Supervision and training of undergraduate students and support staff.

Car driver essential.

The team sits within the community directorate and works closely with social care teams.  

Working for our organisation

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with over 18,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.

Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC for the second consecutive time in 2019, we have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.