Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Medway Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; England; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and award-winning social enterprise as a Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner. This role involves assessing, diagnosing, and treating patients while developing advanced skills in clinical practice. You will benefit from comprehensive training and a supportive team environment alongside opportunities for professional growth and innovation.

Benefits

Opportunity to become an MCH shareholder

Flexible working arrangements

In-service training and one-on-one supervision

Pension scheme options

Qualifications

• Registered practitioner with NMC or HCPC.
• Advanced Clinical Assessment and Decision-making skills required.
• Evidence of teaching, supervision, and assessment skills.

Responsibilities

• Assessing and diagnosing patients with undiagnosed conditions.
• Providing clinical leadership and supporting colleagues.
• Participating in research and evaluation of services.

Skills

Clinical Assessment

Decision-making

Interpersonal Skills

Education

Registered Practitioner with NMC or HCPC

Advanced Clinical Assessment and Decision-making Module

Non-Medical Prescriber

Job description

Do you want to be part of an award winning and dynamic social enterprise that:

• is renowned for providing high quality care and is ranked 'Good' by the CQC;
• is a for-better-profit organisation, reinvesting any surplus back into our health and care services and our local community;
• is friendly, ambitious, welcomes innovation and rewards excellence;
• offers superior benefits; everything you get in the NHS and more;
• and whose achievements reflect the passion, dedication and commitment demonstrated by our staff across all services?

Our vision is to be a successful, vibrant, community interest company that benefits the communities we serve. So if you want be a part of this, we would love to hear from you.

Job overview

We are looking for trainee advanced autonomous practitioners to join our team. Are you excited by primary and urgent care? Do you enjoy working in a dynamic busy environment?

MedOCC is a primary medical care service providing 2 functions. One function is the provision of primary care out of hours services for Medway and Swale and the second function is to provide the primary care element of the Urgent Treatment Centre at Medway Foundation Trust.

The services consist of General Practitioners, Advanced Clinical Practitioners/trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioners, administrative staff and drivers.

The out of hours primary care provision also delivers the cellulitis and DVT pathways for both Medway and Swale. The service is provided out of hours between the hours of 18:30 pm to 08:00 am. On weekdays and from 18:30 pm Friday through to 08:00 Monday morning including Bank Holidays.

The Urgent Treatment Centre primary care element operates in hours including weekends treating patients with a wide range of medical presentations referred via 111 and streamed by the UTC front door.

The clinical team operate a rostered shift system. MedOCC has multiple pathways in and out of our service and have direct referral routes to all MCH services and many more with our partner organisations such as SECAmb, MFT, KMPT and Primary Care.

Main duties of the job

The Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner (tACP) will be supported through indirect supervision to be responsible for assessing, diagnosing, interpreting investigations, and treating patients within MCH and in line with a developing scope of competence. They will monitor and assist with improving standards of care utilising clinical expertise and experiences. They will teach and support colleagues where appropriate, providing professional clinical leadership. Where appropriate they will act as an expert in their field and lead and/or participate in initiatives to improve standards of care for the client group and assisting to advancing the ACP role.

The tACP is service driven, and will be developing themselves around the Department of Health Guidance across the four domains of Advanced Practice, those being:

1. Expert Practice

2. Practice and service development, Research and Evaluation

3. Education and Training

4. Professional leadership and Consultancy

The tACP will develop specialist knowledge and skills to provide healthcare autonomously to patients in their speciality through an established ACP training pathway. The Trainee will work to develop and demonstrate competence in expert knowledge base, complex decision-making skills and build competences for expanded scope of advanced clinical practice.

Whilst in training the tACP will undertake the MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice; included in the curriculum are work-based learning modules. As well as the academic pathway the tACP will follow the three-year supervisor-supported ACP training program mapped against established national and regional competencies.

The tACP will gain the skills under direct supervision to undertake clinical assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients with undiagnosed and undifferentiated conditions. The tACP will develop advanced skills in clinical decision making, critical thinking, and clinical management skills based upon evidence-based practice.

The tACP will have protected time to maintain and further develop their professional competence and act as a constant source of clinical and theoretical knowledge for all grades and disciplines of staff as well as patients / prisoners and service user and their significant others, providing support and clinical advice in specialist areas, based on evidenced based research.

The specific characteristics of the role are shaped by the clinical context, profession, scope of practice and/or qualifications but will always include all 4 pillars of clinical practice, education and personal development, Leadership and management and research, evaluation and audit.

Working for our organisation

So what else?

• This is your chance to join a progressive and innovative service in a social enterprise that is patient and staff focused - you'll even have the opportunity to become an MCH shareholder.
• We encourage staff to get involved in exploring new ways of working and service development.
• We'll provide well established, in-service training, one to one supervision, and appraisals with regular support.
• You'll be able to develop your skills in a friendly and supportive team.

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important work life balance is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

The small print

• Informal visits can be arranged on request.
• We will offer you the choice of two pension schemes; the NHS Pension scheme and the scottish widows group pension scheme.
• MCH encourages all staff to be double COVID vaccinated to protect themselves, their colleagues, their family and their patients.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The tACP will work towards delivery across the below 4 pillars of Advanced Practice as outlined below.

1. Clinical Practice: The ACP demonstrates in depth knowledge and capabilities in all aspects of health and social care encompassing advanced clinical assessment, critical thinking and clinical management skills that are evidence based and deliver high quality patient centred care. The ACP will demonstrate complex decision-making skills and competences for expanded scope of advanced clinical practice for service users and clinical teams according to needs.

1. Education and personal development: The ACP will have an organisational responsibility to promote clinical excellence in the care of service users presenting to their specialty by providing clinical advice, supervision and support as well as implementing programmes of induction and education for all health care professionals.

1. Leadership and Management: The ACP as a senior member of the team, will also play a pivotal role in the operational development of their specialty. They will initiate, manage and drive change within the department, innovating changes in practice for the benefit of patient care in line with current trust and local programmes. Approximately 20% of the tACP's time will be used for these purposes. The ACP will undertake the role in accordance with organisationalguidelines but have freedom to act within broad policies and protocols, in accordance with professional responsibilities and boundaries.

1. Research, audit and evaluation: Research and development activity is a major responsibility. The individual will support in the evaluation of services within the organisation. The role will include developing audit and research projects and participating in up-dating and implementing departmental policies, protocols and guidelines, in line with national guidance and contemporary evidence.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered practitioner with the NMC or HCPC
• Advanced Clinical Assessment and Decision-making module
• Non-Medical Prescriber
• Evidence of teaching, supervision and assessment skills

Desirable criteria

• Working towards MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice
• Post registration qualification or training or experience relevant to specialty

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience and expertise in of assessing and managing complex patients/ caseloads
• Substantial experience of clinical work in relevant setting
• Worked as or are working as a band 6 or above
• Experience of effective multi-disciplinary/agency working and established interpersonal and negotiation skills

Desirable criteria

• Experience of service improvement initiatives
• Experience in using research evaluation / audit tools and demonstrating need.

Specialist Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Ability to work within a multi-professional team, often presenting and receiving complex information
• Expertise in knowledge of working area

Desirable criteria

• Applied leadership knowledge.
• Post graduate qualification in relevant specialty

We reserve the right to close this advert earlier than the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of applications. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted within 1 week of the closing date; no discourtesy is intended in not contacting you if your application is rejected.

When completing your application, please include the email addresses and contact telephone numbers for your referees; your referees should be your line managers / course tutors for the last 3 years.

MCH is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to a compassionate and inclusive workplace and values diversity of all people. We prohibit unlawful discrimination and harassment of any kind and wish to provide our employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. At the heart of our values, we seek to treat people fairly and with dignity and respect and provide a workplace where people feel they belong.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workforce and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join MCH. We are positive about disability and we guarantee interviews to applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria as specified in the job description. We are committed to offering support and making reasonable adjustments to allow full participation in the interview and selection process and through their employee journey.

We are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of children and vulnerable adults.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Trainee Advanced Clinical Director (PDF, 392.4KB)
• Working with us v2.6 2023 - 2024 (PDF, 1.5MB)
• Social Value Report 2022-2023 (PDF, 2.0MB)
• Our flexible working commitment (PDF, 672.2KB)