Job summary
We are delighted to advertise an exciting opportunity for aspiring
Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioners to join the Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust (MYTT) Elective Orthopaedic Service as part of the development into
a Centre of Excellence for
Orthopaedic Surgery based at the Pontefract
Hospital.
We are looking for self-motivated, enthusiastic
trainee practitioners with a desire to develop exceptional clinical leadership
skills and experience working in the Elective Orthopaedic Service. The trainee
ACPs will link with members of a fantastic, well established, and efficient team
of ACPs providing strong clinical leadership to members of the
multi-disciplinary team.
You are joining the Trust at an exciting time as we have recently
been awarded Teaching Hospital status which supports the ambition to deliver an
ACP service built on Health Education England definition four pillars (Clinical
Practice, Leadership and Management, Education and Research) and innovation
opportunities. These skills are essential and underpin the autonomy and
critical decision making required to work within the Elective Orthopaedic Service
The advanced practitioner education will be both in house and
through participation in a Masters course in Advanced Practice within one of
the local academic institutes. You will be expected to apply for the Advanced
Practise Masters Pathway and to start in September 2023.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be practicing under supervision as a trainee within
clinical placement areas to provide advanced care within the Elective OrthopaedicService.
This will encompass the skills of assessment, examination, diagnosis and
treatment within an agreed scope of practice throughout the clinical
placements.
The post holder will, under supervision, work across nursing and medical
boundaries demonstrating leadership in providing expert care, contributing to
education, research, audit and practise development.
On completion the practitioner will have demonstrated clinical
expertise, competence, confidence and be able to work within an autonomous and
defined sphere of practice, maintaining records and in collaboration with the
Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Professional teams.
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
Job Dimension
This training programme will equip the post holder with the skills and
knowledge to utilise and extend their existing primary field of professional
healthcare practice.
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 clinical placements 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 AP 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.
Key responsibilities and 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
Job Dimension
This training programme will equip the post holder with the skills and
knowledge to utilise and extend their existing primary field of professional
healthcare practice.
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 clinical placements 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 AP 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.
Key responsibilities and 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
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 workplace, 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
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.
- Working towards MSc (Apprenticeship) in Advanced Clinical Practice.
- Advanced Life Support Qualification.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Highly developed oral and written communication skills with patients and the MDT; confidence to discuss sensitive, complex patient management and to liaise and negotiate with other members of the MDT
- Highly developed clinical assessment, analytical and problem-solving skills, including generic healthcare aspects to accurately manage complex patient presentations to an excellent professional standard
- Evidence of ability to critique own practice
- Evidence of expert professional/clinical knowledge, supplemented by specialist clinical training and CPD
- Ability to manage time and workload effectively and to work in a high-pressure environment
- Self-aware reflective practitioner able to envisage the role, and understand and manage inherent pressures of the role
- Ability to demonstrate high emotional intelligence and leadership skills
- Able to resolve conflict and overcome resistance
- Report writing/presentation skills
- IT skills ability to use Word/Excel/PowerPoint etc
- Mentoring and counselling skills
- Change management skills
- Excellent time management and organisation skills
- Ability to manage, motivate and empower others
- Ability to analyse information/data and provide written reports
- Ability to analyse information/data and provide written reports
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to motivate individuals and teams
- Evidence of consistently providing all aspects of care with compassion, empathy and kindness, showing sensitivity to the needs of individuals
- Apply transparency, honesty and candour behaviours in your practice and challenge non- compliance with these values in others
Person Specification
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 workplace, 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
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.
- Working towards MSc (Apprenticeship) in Advanced Clinical Practice.
- Advanced Life Support Qualification.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Highly developed oral and written communication skills with patients and the MDT; confidence to discuss sensitive, complex patient management and to liaise and negotiate with other members of the MDT
- Highly developed clinical assessment, analytical and problem-solving skills, including generic healthcare aspects to accurately manage complex patient presentations to an excellent professional standard
- Evidence of ability to critique own practice
- Evidence of expert professional/clinical knowledge, supplemented by specialist clinical training and CPD
- Ability to manage time and workload effectively and to work in a high-pressure environment
- Self-aware reflective practitioner able to envisage the role, and understand and manage inherent pressures of the role
- Ability to demonstrate high emotional intelligence and leadership skills
- Able to resolve conflict and overcome resistance
- Report writing/presentation skills
- IT skills ability to use Word/Excel/PowerPoint etc
- Mentoring and counselling skills
- Change management skills
- Excellent time management and organisation skills
- Ability to manage, motivate and empower others
- Ability to analyse information/data and provide written reports
- Ability to analyse information/data and provide written reports
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to motivate individuals and teams
- Evidence of consistently providing all aspects of care with compassion, empathy and kindness, showing sensitivity to the needs of individuals
- Apply transparency, honesty and candour behaviours in your practice and challenge non- compliance with these values in others
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).
