Nurse Practitioner

We are a specialist nursing service for care homes within Newcastle upon Tyne for residents living with multiple long-term conditions and frailty who are experiencing worsening health due to increasing complexity of needs and require a defined period of focused, enhanced multi-disciplinary clinical support and oversight. The Specialist Care Home Support Team delivers proactive, multidisciplinary clinical support, working in partnership with the care home nursing team, GP's and other community and acute services. We offer advice and support, provide personalised holistic care and advance care planning. The team is supported by a Speciality doctor in Palliative Medicine. We coordinate a weekly multi-disciplinary meeting attended by a Consultant Geriatrician, old Age Psychiatry and other health care professionals to discuss care home residents with complex needs. We also support the care home link GP by attending the weekly ward round. We aim to enhance the lives of care home residents and avoid unnecessary hospital admissions. The role is varied and rewarding caring for a complex patient group who's needs are often overlooked.

• Interview Date Wednesday 25 November 2026
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy, Clinical / non clinical support and sign posting to other services where appropriate following referral into the service.
Complete frailty focused Comprehensive Baseline Assessments Provide time limited enhanced case management for patients with complex clinical , safe guarding or family related needs, requiring multiple consultations and coordination across services to support care planning and advanced decision making. Undertake clinical physical assessments when required. Meet with residents and their families to discuss advance care planning, including writing Emergency Health Care Plans, Treatment Escalation Plans and Advanced Statements. Weekly MDT review of complex cases, bringing together specialist clinicians to optimise care, support advance care planning and decision making, with referrers invited to attend the meeting. Attend the weekly G.P care home rounds alongside the GP. Complete clinical assessments and provide specialist nursing advice and support. Provide End of Life Care support to the nursing staff.

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
• Cramlington Manor Walks
• Urgent treatment centres
• 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.