Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP)

NHS; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An NHS organization is seeking a Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner to provide comprehensive patient care across various settings. The role involves clinical assessments, autonomous decision-making, and adhering to organizational policies while fostering professional development and team collaboration. Candidates should be health-regulated professionals with a commitment to ongoing learning in a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years qualified experience.
• Experience in clinical leadership and multi-professional settings.
• Willingness to undertake Continuous Professional Development (CPD).

Responsibilities

• Ensure safeguarding of children and adults.
• Work flexibly within a dynamic environment.
• Respond to aid, treatment, and clinical requests.

Skills

Autonomous practice

Clinical management

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

Degree level or equivalent

Regulated Health Care Professional registration

Level 6 qualification in History Taking and Clinical Assessment

Job description

Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP)

The Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner works in all care settings to developautonomous practice, to enable to provide, complete care of patients with undifferentiatedneeds. Ensuring appropriate prioritisation, diagnosis, and clinical management,prescribing, or using PGDS and performing clinical procedures without/with directsupervision, depending on experience, supported by other clinical staff.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties of The Job:Professional:1. NEMS requires all staff to safeguard children, young people, and adults. All staffare required to access the organisational policies, also the Local SafeguardingChildren Board and the Local Safeguarding Adults Board policies and proceduresthat underpin the safeguarding agenda. The safeguarding policies to be followedare found on the Nems Shared Drive.2. NEMS policies, procedures, and guidelines - It is a condition of your employmentthat as an employee you are expected to adhere to our policies, procedures, andguidelines. These can all be found on the NEMS share point.3. Receive and respond to requests for aid, treatment, or care. The requests may befrom members of the public, healthcare practitioners or other professionals, andmay include assisting patients to carry out personal care or to mobilise where right.4. Working within the relevant Code of Professional Conduct.5. Be committed to working flexibly, within a dynamic environment, respondingpositively to the changing needs of the servicePromote and facilitate evidence-based practice.7. Demonstrates competence and development within the 4 pillars of advancedpractice as defined by Health Education England in their Multi-Professionalframework for advanced clinical practice in England: Clinical Practice, Leadership &Management, Education, Research

About us

About NEMSNEMS CBS is a high quality, high performing; not-for-profit organisation which deliversintegrated urgent care and urgent primary care services to over 1 million patients.Responsive, adaptable, and continually evolving, we have a reputation for deliveringlocally tailored, safe, effective, and cost-efficient services with elevated levels of patientsatisfaction.We are committed to investing in our people and have an established programme oflearning and development, successfully developing our own Urgent Care Practitioners andAdvanced Clinical Practitioners.NEMS currently operates 3 main services: (1) Integrated Urgent Care acrossNottinghamshire serving a patient population of over 1 million, including home visiting,remote consultation and clinical assessment services; (2) Urgent Primary care provisionlocated within the A&E Department at QMC, (3) A 24-hour urgent primary care serviceadjacent to Kings Mill Hospital A&E, Mansfield

Job responsibilities

Job SummaryThe Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner works in all care settings to developautonomous practice, to enable to provide, complete care of patients with undifferentiatedneeds. Ensuring appropriate prioritisation, diagnosis, and clinical management,prescribing, or using PGDS and performing clinical procedures without/with directsupervision, depending on experience, supported by other clinical staff.

NEMS requires all staff to safeguard children, young people, and adults. All staffare required to access the organisational policies, also the Local SafeguardingChildren Board and the Local Safeguarding Adults Board policies and proceduresthat underpin the safeguarding agenda. The safeguarding policies to be followedare found on the Nems Shared Drive.

2. NEMS policies, procedures, and guidelines - It is a condition of your employmentthat as an employee you are expected to adhere to our policies, procedures, andguidelines. These can all be found on the NEMS share point.

3. Receive and respond to requests for aid, treatment, or care. The requests may befrom members of the public, healthcare practitioners or other professionals, andmay include assisting patients to carry out personal care or to mobilise where right.

4. Working within the relevant Code of Professional Conduct.

5. Be committed to working flexibly, within a dynamic environment, respondingpositively to the changing needs of the service.

6. Promote and facilitate evidence-based practice.

7. Demonstrates competence and development within the 4 pillars of advancedpractice as defined by Health Education England in their Multi-Professionalframework for advanced clinical practice in England: Clinical Practice, Leadership &Management, Education, Research.

8. Maintain professional knowledge and practice to meet revalidation requirements.

9. Demonstrate continual professional (CPD) development through organised or selfdirected study/learning and taking part in clinical supervision.

10. Contribute to the effectiveness of teams, working as part of a multidisciplinaryteam, aiding new members of staff, and actively contribute to service improvementswhere appropriate.11.Recognise and report adverse events, incidents, errors and near misses

12. Ensure personal fitness for work presenting a positive image of self and theorganisation, maintaining professional conduct including appearance.

13. Work flexibly across sites as required by the service, providing cover for sickness,bank holidays, and annual leave of other colleagues.

14.To ensure that ambitious standards of care are given and supported. To act andraise concerns when standards are not being supported following local policy andprocedures. To be involved in Trust Initiatives to improve patient safety and care.

15.To act as an advocate for the patient and the family, including promoting andprotecting their interests, privacy and rights, equality, and inclusion

Clinical:

Always practice within own scope of competence, recognising limitations of clinicalpractice.

Assess and prioritise patients clinical needs by NEMS policies and guidelines.

With and without supervision, depending on competence and stage of training,undertakes consultations with patients presenting with undifferentiated,undiagnosed problems, practising autonomous skills in history taking, physicalexamination, problem-solving and clinical decision-making, to establish a diagnosisand management plan.

Makes professional, autonomous decisions for which she/he is accountable withintheir scope of competence, at stages of their training.

Encourage patients to carry out self-care where appropriate, supported by directionto other sources of health and social care information.

Develops ability to act as a second opinion senior clinical colleague to otherswithin the team within your scope of competence.

Willingness to Prescribe when training completed, independently in a safe andeffective manner in accordance with the appropriate policy and guidance includingthe current antimicrobial guidance.

Assists others, in the clinical team, to provide care in a safe effective manner inaccordance with, the appropriate policy and guidance.

Liaise directly with GPs and consultants regarding medicines, outside of theindividuals normal sphere of competence, and medicine-related uncertainties.

Provide advice and support, to other clinical staff within own sphere of competence.

Liaise and communicate clinical information verbally and via technical links, withNEMS and health system partners to ensure continuity of care, for the patient.

Maintain accurate, contemporaneous record keeping of all interventions withpatients, fully utilising computer software systems in place, and/or other mediums.

Always maintain confidentiality in accordance with legislative and policyrequirements.

Act as the patients advocate when required to.

Participate and assist in service evaluation, clinical audit and research as required.

Participate in developing and delivering teaching to colleagues within the service.

Participate in the investigation of complaints, incidents, and accidents.

Undertake safe clinical practice within health and safety guidelines.

Work within and be aware of the organisations clinical policies and guidelines.

Maintain own awareness of current health policy, relevant to practice.

Be aware of the impact your decisions, may have upon the patient and theirGeneral Practitioner.

Liaise with other professionals to facilitate direct referrals, to other health careproviders within the policies of the organisation.

Participate in the mentorship of visiting health professionals, and students onrecognised training programmes.

Recognise and act upon opportunities, through consultation to promote publichealth.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Regulated Health Care Professional with existing registration.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent.
• Minimum Level 6 qualification in History Taking and Clinical Assessment, and or Minor Injury Management and/ or Minor Illness
• Commitment to Continuous Professional Development (CPD) and
• lifelong learning with the ability and willingness to undertake competencybased training both internally and as an on-going requirement for the post to meet service requirements.
• Willing and able to undertake telephone triage course if required.
• Currently working towards Masters
• module in Advanced Clinical
• Assessment and Management.
• To hold/working towards NonMedical Prescribing qualification. or
• evidence of working to PGDs with
• advanced knowledge.
• Leadership modules.
• ALS/ILS.
• Recognising the sick child.
• Chronic disease management.
• Recognised Teaching and Assessing
• Clinical Educator course, PGCE).
• Safeguarding-level 3 or willingness to
• undertake.

Experience

• Minimum 3 years qualified.
• experience where autonomous
• working at a senior level that has
• been acquired in the speciality area
• or a related area where advanced
• skills could be transferrable.
• Experience of clinical leadership.
• Experience of working within multi
• professional settings with
• consolidated clinical practice and
• contributing to effective team
• working.
• Experience of / involvement with
• evidenced service improvement and
• innovation through service/practice
• research
• Experience of working
• independently in a healthcare
• role at an advanced practice
• level.
• experience.
• Clinical supervision/coaching
• skills.
• General management
• experience.
• Evidence of higher level of
• practice within the specialist
• area.
• Experience of work using
• telephone triage.

Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of local and national
• healthcare agendas/strategy and
• policies and how they relate to the
• specific service.
• Understand the legal, ethical, and
• professional responsibilities and accountability with regards to
• advanced level, autonomous practice.
• Understand the impact of advanced
• practice roles on service delivery and
• their contribution to the
• multiprofessional team
• professional working and working
• across organisational boundaries
• Able to demonstrate working under
• pressure and to deal with emergency
• situations safely and effectively
• Able to demonstrate skilled written,
• verbal and presentation
• Able to deal with the challenge of
• developing and embedding advanced
• roles in existing multi professional
• teams

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.