The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting two part-time nurse practitioners to join its Specialist Care Home Support Team, with applications closing at 11.59pm on Monday 10 November 2026.

The Band 6 posts are permanent and based at the Regent Point Community Base in Gosforth. One post is for 34 hours a week and the other is for 28.5 hours a week. The salary is £39,959 to £48,117 a year, pro rata. Interviews are scheduled for Wednesday 25 November 2026.

What the role involves

The team is a specialist nursing service for care homes across Newcastle upon Tyne. It supports residents living with multiple long-term conditions and frailty whose health is worsening because their needs are becoming more complex. The service provides a defined period of focused, enhanced multidisciplinary clinical support and oversight.

The successful candidates will carry out frailty-focused comprehensive baseline assessments, provide time-limited enhanced case management for patients with complex clinical, safeguarding or family-related needs, and undertake clinical physical assessments when required. They will also meet residents and their families to discuss advance care planning, including writing Emergency Health Care Plans, Treatment Escalation Plans and Advanced Statements.

The role includes attending the weekly GP care home rounds alongside the GP, completing clinical assessments and giving specialist nursing advice, and taking part in a weekly multidisciplinary review of complex cases. That meeting brings together a consultant geriatrician, old age psychiatry and other healthcare professionals. The team is supported by a specialty doctor in palliative medicine, and the post holders will also provide end-of-life care support to care home nursing staff.

Who can apply

Applicants must be a registered nurse with current Nursing and Midwifery Council registration. The trust asks for a diploma plus specialist qualifications or experience in the relevant specialist area, and for candidates to be working towards, or prepared to work towards, a nurse practitioner qualification or equivalent. A clinical skills course is also essential, along with extended clinical practice underpinned by training and assessment, such as venepuncture, cannulation and intravenous drug administration.

A degree in a health-related subject, a completed non-medical independent prescribing course and experience of contributing to education programmes are listed as desirable. Applicants will need a current driving licence where relevant to the role, and the post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service check. The trust says successful candidates who require a DBS certificate pay for it through a deduction from their first month's pay.

About the trust

Newcastle Hospitals is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion. It records around two million contacts with patients every year and delivers care from the Royal Victoria Infirmary, the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Dental Hospital, the Northern Centre for Cancer Care and community sites.

The trust describes itself as a flexible working friendly organisation and says it will try to accommodate working arrangements that suit both the service and the individual. The advert states that no agencies should apply.

Informal enquiries can be made to Karen Curtis, team lead, on 0191 2823664. Applications are made online through Trac, the NHS recruitment system, using reference 317-2026-44-02-DR. The trust warns that applications should be submitted promptly, as the vacancy may close earlier than the advertised date if enough applications are received.