Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner

North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Part time

Job summary

Une opportunité passionnante se présente pour un Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner au sein d'un service communautaire reconnu. Ce poste de formation permet de gérer un dossier de patients en intégrant une prise en charge proactive des maladies chroniques, tout en suivant une formation pour obtenir le MSc en Pratique Clinique Avancée. Les candidats doivent être motivés à évoluer vers ce rôle autonome au sein d'une équipe d'experts.

Qualifications

• Infirmier(ère) ou AHP en MSc en Pratique Clinique Avancée.
• Expérience d'au moins trois ans après l'enregistrement.
• Compétences documentées en cliniques.

Responsibilities

• Évaluer, diagnostiquer et gérer les soins aux patients sous supervision.
• Collaborer au sein d'équipes multidisciplinaires pour un meilleur soin.
• Encadrer des étudiants et du personnel selon les normes de la pratique avancée.

Skills

Communication orale avancée

Gestion du temps

Motivation de l'équipe

Gestion de conflit

Compétences cliniques avancées

Education

MSc en Pratique Clinique Avancée

Job description

This post is only open to internal applicants.

Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Band 7

Main area Community Matrons Grade Band 7 Contract Apprenticeship: 2 years Hours Part time - 15 hours per week (as part of full time substantive post) Job ref 350-CC7215990

Site Sefton Place - Community Town Liverpool Salary £46,148 - £52,809 pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing Today at 23:59 Interview date 09/07/2025

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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

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Job overview

A new and exciting development opportunity has arisen for Band 7 Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioners to be a part of a well-established Community Matron Service in Mersey Care NHS Trust. This is a training post, and we are welcoming applications from Nurses or AHPswho are either currently working towards their MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice via apprenticeship or CPD route, or who we can support to undertake their MSc in Advanced Practice.

You will be responsible for supporting ACPs, in managing a proactive caseload of patients in their own home and 24-hour care settings to optimise long-term condition management, provide urgent response to patients presenting with acute illness and exacerbations of their LTCs and provide expert clinical support and leadership to DN and integrated-care teams, to deliver place-based, person-centred care. You will promote shared decision making with individuals regarding their care plan and encourage proactive self-management of conditions with the aim of avoiding crisis resulting in unplanned admissions to hospital. You will work under the mentorship and supervision of established ACPs working within the Service, with opportunities to support your learning and development.

We are looking to recruit Trainee ACPs who are ready to take the next step in their clinical career. You must be able to demonstrate the motivation required to take on an ACP role.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will support the Advanced Clinical Practitioners to clinically assess, investigate, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate the clinical care and management of patients on the caseload. Although this is a training post, the post holder will be expected to undertake some autonomous clinical decision making regarding the treatment and care of patients on the caseload, with clinical support and mentorship. The post holder will work within local and nationally agreed frameworks, including the 4 Pillars of Advanced Clinical Practice. The trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner will support the established Advanced Clinical Practitioners to provide advanced clinical expertise and leadership to locality teams including district nurses and integrated care teams through joint visits, formal and informal supervision and mentorship, teaching sessions and attendance at MDT meetings.

The post holder will be supported through study days to attend university to undertake their MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice. The post holder will be expected to be prepared to work across a 7-day service 8am-8pm.

Working for our organisation

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

All post holders will agree to:
-Commit to the vision of supporting Mersey Care in becoming a leading organisation in the provision of community services, mental health care, addiction services and learning disability care, and in doing so fully utilise their skills and experience to support the objectives of the Trust.
-Role model the values of the Trust:Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Respectfulness, Enthusiasm and Support– in all activities and interactions with employees, service users and other stakeholders
-Challenge the stigma associated with mental health and learning difficulties.
-Comply with the Duty of Candour, defined by Francis as: 'The volunteering of all relevant information to persons who have or may have been harmed by the provision of services, whether or not the information has been requested and whether or not a complaint or a report about that provision has been made.’
-Work across professional and organisational boundaries to improve services for all.
-Maintain their specific knowledge base and develop new skills.
-Value the contribution of the patient / service user voice.
-Operate within any organisational codes of practice or those from a relevant professionalbody.
-Respect equality and diversity across all areas of working practice and communications withstaff, service users and other stakeholders.
-Take responsibility for the accurate and timely collection and recording of data and ensuring all personally identifiable information is protected and used only for the purposes for which it was intended.
-Comply with all health and safety legislation and local policies and procedures.
-Adhere to all organisational policies.
-Have knowledge and understanding of technology in the workplace which is sufficient to maintain their efficiency and also how technology can empower service users in a digital environment
-Comply with the NHS Constitution in relation to the staff responsibilities that it sets out for NHS employees.

Person specification

Values

• Accountability
• Support
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet

Skills

• Ability to motivate individuals and teams.
• Advanced oral and written communication skills and confidence to discuss patient management with other members of the MDT.
• Confidence and ability to accurately assess and manage complex patient presentations to a high professional standard.
• Demonstrable skill acquisition in clinical field
• Ability to manage time and workload effectively.
• Negotiation and conflict management skills
• IT literate
• Documented evidence of advanced clinical skills competencies
• High level of capability using outcome measures and audit
• Ability to critique own practice to an advanced level

Knowledge\Experience

• Understanding of national agenda for advanced clinical practice
• Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality
• Knowledge of ACP developments in Service line and the organisations’ strategic view.
• Evidence of working at a band 6 or equivalent
• A minimum of three years post-registration experience (or equivalent if part-time).
• At least 1 years' experience in the clinical speciality that the candidate proposes to work as an ACP.
• Evidence of continuous professional development and the practical application of new skills to the workplace
• Supervision of staff and students
• Evidence of contribution to audit programmes within service line
• Employed for 30 hours per week.
• Access to appropriate supervision for duration of HEI programme and to meet Tripartite requirements of which there are 8-10.
• Commitment from Employer and Trainee to complete 20% off job requirements

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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.

Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email [e-mail] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email [e-mail] ) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Name Rowen Emmett Job title Operational Service Manager Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 07966241611 Additional information

Please contact Rowen with any questions, or to arrange an informal visit.