Night Nurse Practitioner

The Night Nurse Practitioner will lead and support the Hospital at Night team through clinical expertise, professional advice, guidance and education. The role will be responsible for the co-ordination, delivery and implementation of advanced clinical support to the Hospital at Night team, including the medical staff on the team overnight and the staff working in all areas of the hospital.

In addition to providing exceptional clinical support, the role of the Night Nurse Practitioner will include carrying the Hospital Bleep. This aspect of the role incorporates all aspects of site safety from ensuring adequate staffing across the site to the more challenging and unusual situations that may arise. In order to manage these situations successfully, the Night Nurse Practitioner will be expected to work closely with the Clinical Site Management team.

The role of Night Nurse Practitioner also includes Capacity Management, ensuring that patients are moved safely and promptly from the Emergency Department / AMU / MDU. This will also occasionally involve moving patients around the hospital during the night and so requires a good working knowledge of the hospital and its departments to ensure that patient safety is maintained at all times.

Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP., The Night Nurse Practitioner will allocate clinical tasks to the Hospital at Night team utilising the HaN bleep system, ensuring that patients are assessed in a timely manner by the most appropriate practitioner; this again requires a good working knowledge of the hospital to allow appropriate assessment of risk.

Line manager for a team, which will include responsibility over own staff for all or most of the following: appraisals, sickness management, disciplinary and grievance matters, recruitment and selection management, personal and career development, department workload. The post holder will be a shift leader with direct responsibility for management, supervision and support of junior members of the Hospital at Night team ensuring management of clinical activities. As the Night Nurse Practitioner on a shift they will be responsible for managing ad hoc situations as they arise in the ward environment that require senior nursing intervention, escalating as appropriate to the clinical site manager I.e. patient safety incidents , HR related matters, complaints and staff conflict. They will also be responsible for ensuring the medical staff that form part of the hospital at night team are given the appropriate support as required to carry out their duties on a shift by shift basis.

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.

We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.

Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.

We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway to Excellence designated organisation - please click the link for further details about this prestigious award. Pathway To Excellence - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire (uhcw.nhs.uk)

By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.

The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.