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Main area Community Response Team Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent HoursFull time Flexible working 37.5 hours per week (Includes weekend and B/H) Job ref 319-7344285LT Employer Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Hexham General Hospital Town Hexham Salary £38,682 - £46,580 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 18/08/2025 23:59 Community PractitionerBand 6Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way! What the Northumbria Way means for you : Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups A range of flexible working opportunities Generous annual leave and pension scheme Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies) Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services. We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy. If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news. Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process. Job overviewWe are looking for enthusiastic, dedicated nurses to join our team and work with us to deliver an evidence based, clinically effective service for our patients in their own homes. You will assess ,plan, and evaluate clients care including families and carers were appropriate The service is part of an integrated community pathway for patients offering a crisis response and supporting with unplanned care. The service will provide an integrated approach to care of patients in the community by using a holistic approach and providing a multidisciplinary assessment which will aim to ensure patients remain at home with appropriate health and social services support. We also provide a patient centred approach to deliver comprehensive patient care for patients at home on the virtual ward, needing a 2 hour crisis response or unplanned care.The approach is preventative and reactive to a crisis and aims to work with the client’s physical health, mental health and social care needs. The design of care is holistic and support is provided and wrapped around the client needs. This post will function work mainly in the west Northumberland locality but may be trustwide across North Tyneside and Northumberland. Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received. Main duties of the jobThe post holder will work within an MDT team working in the community in order to provide hospital level care to patient’s in their usual place of residence. To be responsible and accountable for the delivery of nursing care to a defined caseload by using team management and organisational skills. To provide leadership, management and clinical supervision to staff, trainees and students and work in collaboration with the wider Acute and Primary Health Care Team. To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries. Working for our organisationWe 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. Detailed job description and main responsibilitiesTo work within the community setting providing holistic nursing care as well as advice and support for patients, carers and families as appropriate. Responsible for the management of an identified case load and nursing Provide support, supervision and guidance to staff Maintain links and support to the nursing management team across Community. To actively engage in inter-agency and multi-agency care planning Person specificationQualifications1st Level NMC Registered Nurse Degree in relevant subject or equivalent qualification and /or experience Recognised teaching/assessors/mentorship or Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching and assessing of students (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period) Willingness to maintain continuing professional development Relevant experience working in the community Management and leadership qualification Experience & KnowledgeExperience of managing a diverse caseload. Experience of palliative care and end of life care. Evidence of continuing professional development Experience of coordinating a team Other RequirementsIt is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme. We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2. Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance. Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust! Certificate of Sponsorship Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay. Employer certification / accreditation badgesYou must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. Name Abigail Thornton Job title OSM Email address Telephone number 07971673727 Additional information Abigail Thornton Operational Manager Community Response Service Northumbria Healthcare Foundation NHS Trust Cobalt Business Exchange CBX Business Centre, Cobalt Park Way, Wallsend NE28 9NZ Tel: 01912932580 Mobile: 07766078183 Email: #J-18808-Ljbffr