Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a
highly motivated enthusiastic individual to work in our established stroke
service at Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust as a Trainee Advanced Clincal Practitioner.
The post holder will be working as a
trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner (tACP) under direct or indirect
supervision of senior medical and non-medical colleagues, at an advanced
clinical level in the direct delivery of high-quality care making critical
clinical decisions based on advanced clinical skills assessment.
The post holder will work across our
acute stroke patient pathway including the Stroke Hub, Hyper-Acute Stroke Unit
(HASU), Acute Stroke Unit (Gate A2) and within the TIA service. The role will
support the clinical workforce with day-to-day clinical activity.
The post holder would be required to
work in line with national and local stroke guidelines and targets, aiming to
provide excellent care for our patients.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant would be required to undertake their Advanced Clinical Practitioner training programme through Leeds University whilst working as a trainee on the stroke unit at Pinderfields hospital.
The validated training programme
will create opportunities and forums to consolidate theory and practice at an
advanced level using specialist knowledge and evidence based practice.
The Trainee ACP will develop skills
within the stroke service to work independently or with medical, nursing and
AHP colleagues maintaining professional and legal responsibility and
accountability for all aspects of their own work.
The trainee ACP will maintain and
ensure provision of expert clinical care for the patients within a complex case
load under their management, and that of other staff.
The trainee will demonstrate
progression of clinical skills throughout the trainee programme and receive
dynamic formative and summative feedback from their clinical supervisors.
On completion of the training programme
the ACPs skills acquisition will be characterised by demonstrating an
increasing complexity and range of clinical tasks and procedures. The trainee
will be able to demonstrate greater clinical, technical, scientific and
analytical skills. They will be able to synthesis complex facts and situations
which must be taken into account in planning and evaluating procedures which
inform and validate diagnosis.
About us
We provide care and support to over a million people in
Wakefield and Kirklees in their homes, community settings and across our
three hospital sites at Pontefract, Dewsbury and Pinderfields (Wakefield).
Always striving for excellence, we are at the forefront of
innovation and research, and we invest in teaching and the development of our
workforce.
We live by our values of caring, improving, being respectful
and maintaining high standards. We listen and learn because we aim to make Mid
Yorkshire the best place to work and receive care.
We value diversity and welcome talent and enthusiasm
irrespective of age, disability, neurodivergence, sex, gender identity and
gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation,
or other personal circumstances including providing unpaid carers support to
someone with a health and care need. As ethnic minority groups, members of the
LGBTQ+ community, and people with a disability/neurodivergence are currently
under-represented across the organisation, we encourage applications from
members of these groups. We have policies and procedures to ensure all
applicants are treated fairly and consistently.
We are proud of our staff networks - who offer valuable
guidance and feedback from those with lived experience.
We have a clear vision and you could be part of this! If
you share our values and you want to make a difference to the lives of our
patients and their families and carers, we would love to hear from you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
PRIMARY DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
- To deliver and participate in
clinical care, within the clinical placement area.
- Under supervision, provide a
level of advanced and comprehensive health assessment based on a specialist
body of knowledge.
- To appropriately assess, examine, investigate, diagnose and treat
patients, resulting in safe management and appropriate clinical management,
referral or discharge within the specified boundaries of the role as a trainee.
- Under supervision, using an extended scope of practice beyond own
profession, review all information available, including interpretation of
laboratory and radiological results.
- Utilising a systematic process of assessment and critical reasoning make
a differential diagnosis, and record and initiate an appropriate patient
management plan prioritising the most probable diagnosis.
- Recognise the patient with
changing health status and take appropriate actions.
- Initiate pharmacological
intervention, as an independent or supplementary prescriber or patient group directive
and administer medications as prescribed by others in accordance with current
legislation and the Mid Yorkshire Trust policies.
- Communicate highly complex and
highly sensitive information with patients and families and within the healthcare
team.
- Under supervision, plan and organise complex activities, including
liaison with other hospital services and external agencies, and detailed
planning for patient management, referral and discharge.
- Have responsibility for the safe use of highly complex monitoring and
support equipment within the work area.
- Under supervision, undertake advanced clinical skills according to agreed
protocols and to service need.
- Maintain own clinical development by keeping abreast of new treatments
and technologies.
- Rigorously review with a supervisor all aspects of the patients plan of
care and identify and address issues that may result in a sub-standard service.
- Contribute to the review and development of integrated care pathways and
clinical guidelines to ensure a standardised approach to care.
- Under supervision, practice with confidence and competence within
Professional Guidelines.
- Ensure that accurate documentation
and records are maintained in line with professional standards.
- Assist and contribute to the
development of patient management systems, processes and tools within the work
area and adjacent clinical areas.
- Improve the quality of the patient experience by identifying and meeting
the individual clinical needs of the patient
and their families.
- Provide support to the
multidisciplinary team to enable patient to have better outcomes for their
health and that of their families, undertaking health promotion and
contributing to the prevention of adverse effects to health and wellbeing.
- Demonstrate ability to adapt
specialist clinical knowledge and skills to different clinical settings, and
influence service delivery.
- Actively implement effective systems and processes for infection control
management and relevant audit within their clinical placement area.
- The trainee complies with
legislation, policies and procedures related to biomedical investigations and
interventions.
- The trainee takes appropriate
action to comply with response to biomedical reporting and escalation of
extraneous results.
Job description
Job responsibilities
PRIMARY DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
- To deliver and participate in
clinical care, within the clinical placement area.
- Under supervision, provide a
level of advanced and comprehensive health assessment based on a specialist
body of knowledge.
- To appropriately assess, examine, investigate, diagnose and treat
patients, resulting in safe management and appropriate clinical management,
referral or discharge within the specified boundaries of the role as a trainee.
- Under supervision, using an extended scope of practice beyond own
profession, review all information available, including interpretation of
laboratory and radiological results.
- Utilising a systematic process of assessment and critical reasoning make
a differential diagnosis, and record and initiate an appropriate patient
management plan prioritising the most probable diagnosis.
- Recognise the patient with
changing health status and take appropriate actions.
- Initiate pharmacological
intervention, as an independent or supplementary prescriber or patient group directive
and administer medications as prescribed by others in accordance with current
legislation and the Mid Yorkshire Trust policies.
- Communicate highly complex and
highly sensitive information with patients and families and within the healthcare
team.
- Under supervision, plan and organise complex activities, including
liaison with other hospital services and external agencies, and detailed
planning for patient management, referral and discharge.
- Have responsibility for the safe use of highly complex monitoring and
support equipment within the work area.
- Under supervision, undertake advanced clinical skills according to agreed
protocols and to service need.
- Maintain own clinical development by keeping abreast of new treatments
and technologies.
- Rigorously review with a supervisor all aspects of the patients plan of
care and identify and address issues that may result in a sub-standard service.
- Contribute to the review and development of integrated care pathways and
clinical guidelines to ensure a standardised approach to care.
- Under supervision, practice with confidence and competence within
Professional Guidelines.
- Ensure that accurate documentation
and records are maintained in line with professional standards.
- Assist and contribute to the
development of patient management systems, processes and tools within the work
area and adjacent clinical areas.
- Improve the quality of the patient experience by identifying and meeting
the individual clinical needs of the patient
and their families.
- Provide support to the
multidisciplinary team to enable patient to have better outcomes for their
health and that of their families, undertaking health promotion and
contributing to the prevention of adverse effects to health and wellbeing.
- Demonstrate ability to adapt
specialist clinical knowledge and skills to different clinical settings, and
influence service delivery.
- Actively implement effective systems and processes for infection control
management and relevant audit within their clinical placement area.
- The trainee complies with
legislation, policies and procedures related to biomedical investigations and
interventions.
- The trainee takes appropriate
action to comply with response to biomedical reporting and escalation of
extraneous results.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RGN, RSCN or RM or other allied professional with evidence of graduate level education
- Level 2 Maths and English or be willing to complete functional skills Maths and English prior to completion of apprenticeship
- Relevant teaching qualification
- Evidence of current CPD
- Evidence of further study of a relevant Honours Degree, minimum of a 2:2 award or equivalent
- Advanced Life Support Qualification.
- Working towards MSc (Apprenticeship) in Advanced Clinical Practice
Knowledge and Awareness
Essential
- Comprehensive knowledge of professional and NHS issues and policy and the ability to interpret policy at a local level.
- Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality
- Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of application of relevant National Guidance eg. National Service Frameworks, NICE etc
- Comprehensive knowledge of the NHS national targets and priorities
- Understanding of the Trusts objectives and priorities and the ability to work across operational boundaries
- Evidence of current CPD
- Recruitment and Selection, Appraisal and other HR/People Management related training
- Understanding of healthcare structure with regard to excellent communication skills in collaborating with other Health and Community Partners.
- Ability to understand aspects of legal and role boundaries and of Advanced Clinical Practitioner scope of practice
Desirable
- Management Development Training
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of continuous professional development and the practical application of new skills to the work place, demonstrating specialist expertise underpinned by theory
- Evidence of depth and breadth of senior level practice appropriate to advanced level
- Evidence of practical contributions to the development of service programmes of care and protocols
- Evidence of contribution to audit programmes within practice
- Evidence of involvement in direct supervision and leadership in teaching and mentoring of junior staff and students
- Relevant teaching/supervising/mentoring experience
- Managerial responsibilities, including supervision and appraisal of junior staff, in all professional groups
- Evidence of relevant involvement in meeting the Trust clinical governance objectives
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RGN, RSCN or RM or other allied professional with evidence of graduate level education
- Level 2 Maths and English or be willing to complete functional skills Maths and English prior to completion of apprenticeship
- Relevant teaching qualification
- Evidence of current CPD
- Evidence of further study of a relevant Honours Degree, minimum of a 2:2 award or equivalent
- Advanced Life Support Qualification.
- Working towards MSc (Apprenticeship) in Advanced Clinical Practice
Knowledge and Awareness
Essential
- Comprehensive knowledge of professional and NHS issues and policy and the ability to interpret policy at a local level.
- Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality
- Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of application of relevant National Guidance eg. National Service Frameworks, NICE etc
- Comprehensive knowledge of the NHS national targets and priorities
- Understanding of the Trusts objectives and priorities and the ability to work across operational boundaries
- Evidence of current CPD
- Recruitment and Selection, Appraisal and other HR/People Management related training
- Understanding of healthcare structure with regard to excellent communication skills in collaborating with other Health and Community Partners.
- Ability to understand aspects of legal and role boundaries and of Advanced Clinical Practitioner scope of practice
Desirable
- Management Development Training
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of continuous professional development and the practical application of new skills to the work place, demonstrating specialist expertise underpinned by theory
- Evidence of depth and breadth of senior level practice appropriate to advanced level
- Evidence of practical contributions to the development of service programmes of care and protocols
- Evidence of contribution to audit programmes within practice
- Evidence of involvement in direct supervision and leadership in teaching and mentoring of junior staff and students
- Relevant teaching/supervising/mentoring experience
- Managerial responsibilities, including supervision and appraisal of junior staff, in all professional groups
- Evidence of relevant involvement in meeting the Trust clinical governance objectives
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
