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Band 6 

• 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.
• To work towards the role of an independent nurse practitioner, contributing towards the delivery of a quality service matching clinical need to available resources within the focus of specialist nursing practice:
  o To ensure that the patient is the central focus of a streamlined patient journey ensuring optimal quality of care.
  o Will provide a prompt response to calls from colleagues, prioritising 
  importance and clinical need.
  o Supports the clinical team to manage a defined caseload, activity to 
  include assessment, investigation, diagnosis and treatment within defined protocols and training.
  o Provide immediate care management of patient including communication of plan to patients and significant others.
  o Review and refer to appropriate person, e.g. AHP, resident medical staff, specialist registrar or critical care outreach team.
  o Liaises with Patient Services Coordinator.
  o Communicate within multidisciplinary team, ward/departmental staff and/or out of hour’s team.
  o Contributes to specialist education and training to ward departmental staff, nursing and medical students.

Band 7 

• 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:
  o To ensure that the patient is the central focus of a streamlined patient journey ensuring optimal quality of care.
  o Working as a nurse practitioner, provide a prompt response to calls from colleagues, prioritising importance and clinical need.
  o Manage own caseload to include assessment, investigation, diagnosis and treatment within defined parameters and training.
  o Provide immediate care management of patient including communication of plan to patients and significant others.
  o Review and refer to appropriate person, e.g. AHP, resident medical staff, specialist registrar or critical care outreach team.
  o Liaising with Patient Services Coordinator where necessary.
  o Communicate within multidisciplinary team, ward/departmental staff and/or out of hours team.
  o Provide specialist education and training to departmental nursing staff, nursing and medical students. 

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.

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.