Nurse Practitioner - Surgery

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NEW NORTHUMBRIA VIRTUAL WARD TEAMCome and join our rapidly developing Community response Team delivering the Northumbria Virtual Ward service.This is a fantastic and exciting opportunity to work in one of the most beautiful counties in England and be at the cutting edge of delivering acute care to patients in their own homeThe community virtual ward service will provide care to patients in their own home who would otherwise have stayed in hospitalWe have full engagement with our hospital consultants who will retain clinical oversight for their patients on the virtual ward to support the team across each specialist area including respiratory, frailty, heart failure and surgeryComplementing and utilising our existing community therapy and nursing teams, our virtual ward team will provide intensive treatment, care and monitoring to patients.This post may be subject to assessment centre and or psychometric testing.

• To take part in daily virtual wards rounds when on shift.
• To build relationships with the various surgery teams and provide a comprehensive clinical service for post operative patients as part of the virtual ward team with an emphasis on patient centred care.
• To lead on the care of patient in the Surgery virtual wards and to support and community nursing team with their care.
• To be responsible and accountable for the physical delivery of nursing care in the patient’s usual place of residence, to a defined caseload by using team management and organisational skills

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.For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Karen Hutton Job title: Senior Clinical Lead for Virtual wards Email address: Karen.hutton2@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07967815808