Night Nurse Practitioner (XR06)

NHS; Leeds; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

An exciting opportunity is available for a highly motivated individual with a keen interest in developing their management and leadership skills as a permanent Night Nurse Practitioner for out-of-hours cover at CAH.

This new permanent position will be supported by the senior nurse team at CAH. It is an essential part of the out-of-hours service at CAH, given its peripheral location. While the role requires operational and governance oversight, this is supported by the out-of-hours team at the main site when needed (CSM and on-call HoN).

Working Hours: Nights (19:00 - 07:30) and weekend days (07:00 - 19:30).

Expected Shortlisting Date: 05/05/2025

Planned Interview Date: 12/05/2025

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will need excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to provide high-quality nursing care across a diverse range of patients. You should also be committed to ongoing professional development and have evidence of such.

Training will be provided to ensure you have the necessary skills and tools to excel in your role and maintain patient and staff safety. This will include a three-month supernumerary training period to ensure you are well-equipped for your new role.

About us

Chapel Allerton Hospital (CAH), located in the north of Leeds and part of the Leeds Teaching Hospitals, is renowned for its friendly and caring environment. The team at CAH consistently receives positive feedback from patients and visitors. In September 2016, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) awarded the hospital an overall rating of GOOD, and staff surveys consistently reflect excellent feedback year after year.

Our ongoing commitment to high-quality patient care, staff development, and state-of-the-art research drives our ambition to become the elective centre of choice for patients from Leeds and the wider Yorkshire region.

CAH boasts several departments with world-wide reputations for excellence in specialist patient care and cutting-edge research.

CAH has 4 in-patient wards with a total of 97 beds and 4 ECU beds.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

Job responsibilities

The jobholder will demonstrate evidence-based care in the independent assessment, clinical examination, planning of care, clinical decision making, diagnosis, treatment, evaluation, health promotion and safe discharge of specific client group within agreed protocols. The job holder will coordinate a multidisciplinary team of staff and implement nurse-led care. They will participate in mentorship and teaching programmes for multi-disciplinary groups within the department. The jobholder will provide senior nursing support, advice and professional leadership to a group clinical area.

The jobholder will take charge of the unit as required.

Person Specification

Experience

• Minimum of two years experience at staff nurse grade level or equivalent within specialty
• Insight into clinical specialty
• Insight into current issues in nursing/professional issues
• Standards of professional practice. Understanding of quality improvement practice

Skills and Behaviours

• Professional and patient focused
• Flexible, adaptable, capable of lateral thinking
• Excellent interpersonal skills

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse on the NMC register with PIN
• Evidence of Post graduate education or equivalent experience professional development
• Recognised Nurse Practitioner qualification or evidence of completion of a competency-based clinical assessment and examination of patients knowledge and skills package
• Evidence of continued professional development and implementation in clinical practice within the last 12 months
• Understanding of training needs in relation to post
• Teaching qualification

Other Criteria

• Able to fulfil Occupational Health requirements for post
• Ability to communicate effectively within a multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to teach, supervise and assess qualified and unqualified staff.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.