Enhanced Nurse Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 07/09/2026
- Closes
- 21/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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Role summary
This is a Band 7 Enhanced Nurse Practitioner role within the Rapid Response Nursing Team in Gateshead. The post holder will work autonomously within a multi-disciplinary team to manage patients requiring urgent community response, aiming to prevent hospital admissions and facilitate early discharge. Responsibilities include advanced clinical assessments, diagnosing, treatment planning, and prescribing for patients with complex needs in a community setting. The role involves senior clinical decision-making and coordinating care across various health and social care interfaces.
Essential criteria
- Diploma/Degree in Adult Nursing
- Clinical skills/physical assessment skills qualification
- Non medical prescribing/willingness to work towards
- Valid UK driving license
- Able to administer intravenous antibiotics and safely use central venous access devices
- Provide palliative/end of life care to patients
- Leadership skills
- Significant post registration experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience/awareness of urgent community response agenda
- Diploma/Degree in Adult Nursing
- Clinical skills/physical assessment skills qualification
- Non medical prescribing/willingness to work towards
- Valid UK driving license
- Able to administer intravenous antibiotics and safely use central venous access devices
- Provide palliative/end of life care to patients
- Leadership skills
- Significant post registration experience
- Experience/awareness of urgent community response agenda
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
Enhanced Nurse Practitioner
The closing date is 21 September 2026
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 clinical decisions, including advanced clinical assessments, history taking, diagnosing, planning treatment, prescribing and evaluation of care.
Working as part of a multidisciplinary team and across the primary, secondary and social care interfaces in Gateshead and will be responsible for coordinating and meeting
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