Band 7 Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Job summary

We are looking for an experienced emergency nurse or paramedic to join our Emergency Department (ED) team as a trainee Advanced Practitioner.

The trainee advanced practitioner educational programme will blend academic university study with the acquisition of work-based clinical learning. The successful candidate will be fully supported to undertake an MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice. After successful completion of agreed objectives, the post holder will progress to a band 8a Advanced Practitioner.

Main duties of the job

During training, the post holder will be practicing autonomously in the Emergency department within their agreed scope of practice, stage of training and level of competence to provide patient-centred quality care. This will encompass the skills of advanced assessment, examination, diagnosis and management.

About us

With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, St George's Hospital is the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.

The main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.

As well as acute hospital services, St Georges Hospital provides a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across south west London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.

The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases.