Job summary
This post is a Band 7 Enhanced Nurse Practitioner within the Rapid Response Nursing Team in Gateshead.

To work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team to manage patients identified as requiring an urgent community response to prevent a deterioration in their health and wellbeing. In addition, there will be planned activity to prevent avoidable admission to hospital and facilitate early supported discharge, where clinically appropriate.

This post is a senior autonomous clinician who will ensure the fundamentals of care are provided at the point of contact and will ensure delivery of a range of appropriate interventions to be able to meet the needs of the patients, within the community setting. Patients accessing the service will have complex needs and potentially numerous co-morbidities including frailty.

The autonomous practitioner will provide comprehensive healthcare sensitive to the needs of the population, responsible for senior clini...