Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Primary Care

NHS; Manchester; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join their dynamic team in primary care. This role offers a unique opportunity to develop your clinical skills while pursuing an MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice. You will benefit from a supportive mentorship program, working alongside experienced clinicians from various backgrounds. With a focus on holistic patient care, you will assess and manage both minor and complex health needs, ensuring high-quality service delivery. This role not only enhances your professional development but also allows you to make a significant impact on community health.

Benefits

30 days annual leave

Flexible working hours

Cycle to work scheme

Access to wellbeing initiatives

Social and fun activities

Qualifications

• Registered first level nurse or paramedic with degree level education.
• Evidence of continuing professional development within the last 12 months.

Responsibilities

• Assess and holistically examine patients with minor and complex needs.
• Plan and evaluate management plans ensuring safe discharge and referrals.
• Utilise effective communication styles to inform patients.

Skills

Clinical Expertise

Communication Skills

Team Management

Patient Assessment

Complex Needs Management

Education

Registered Nurse or Paramedic

Degree Level Education

GCSE Maths and English

Job description

Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Primary Care

gtd healthcare are investing in the Trainee Advanced Clinical Practice programme as part of growing our own ACP workforce. We have exciting opportunities to work in primary care within the Tameside locality. We operate 8 GP practices across Tameside.

As a Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner, you will be funded to undertake your MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice at an allocated university and follow a structured programme to enable you to become an autonomous practitioner.

To facilitate your learning, gtd healthcare will provide the relevant mentorship, support and guidance from senior medical and non-medical clinicians within our multidisciplinary team who will empower you to become competent and confident emerging ACP.

Additionally, we have a network of highly skilled ACPs from a diverse clinical background (pharmacy, physiotherapy, paramedic, and nursing) who support the trainee programme. You will be able gain skills, knowledge and experience by working within this team of clinicians as they support your development along your learning journey.

To support your development, you will be allocated 15 hours protected time per week to attend university and undertake placements to progress in all four pillars of advanced practice. You will also be able to access further learning opportunities / teaching sessions via gtd healthcare Academy to enhance your knowledge and skills within key areas.

Main duties of the job

• Assess and holistically clinically examine patients with both minor and complex needs through history taking, physical examination and appropriate use of investigations to confirm diagnosis.
• Plan, implement and evaluate an effective management plan for the patient, ensuring safe discharge/referral and/or transfer to an appropriate health care service. Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles, to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment.
• If you are employed in a prescribing capacity, you must only do this if qualified and competent to do so. This applies to those practitioners with V300 qualification, who have active registration with the NMC or the practitioners professional regulatory body.
• You must maintain your knowledge and skills with regards to prescribing and administration of drugs, keeping up to date with any changes, alerts, recalls and other reasonable professional knowledge.

For further details, please refer to the attached job description.

About us

At gtd healthcare we believe we do things differently. Our not-for-profit ethos, with a drive to innovate care offers patients the best experience possible and a unique opportunity to transform services.

We are keen to develop and support staff to excel their career aspirations whilst making a positive difference to patients and the community. We put our people at the heart of everything we do. We are a values driven organisation and we are passionate about providing the best possible healthcare for our patients.

Benefits package

As an employee of gtd healthcare, you'll be able to take advantage of our benefits package, including:

• working for a values-driven organisation;
• Real living wage employer;
• access to Wagestream, which provides flexible and on-demand access to stream your pay during the month, in real-time, when picking-up extra shifts;
• 30 days annual leave, rising to 32 after five years of continuous service;
• flexible working hours and policies;
• family friendly and carer policies;
• opportunities to apply for innovation and quality awards;
• access to gtd healthcares wellbeing initiatives, which offer a wide range of tools and resources;
• gtd healthcare social and fun activities;
• cycle to work scheme.

Job responsibilities

Clinical Practice

• Assess and holistically clinically examine patients with both minor and complex needs through history taking, physical examination and appropriate use of investigations to confirm diagnosis.
• Plan, implement and evaluate an effective management plan for the patient, ensuring safe discharge/referral and/or transfer to an appropriate health care service.
• Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication on medication regimens, side-effects and interactions.
• Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
• Triage telephone referrals, calls from external clinicians, patients and others into a range of services appropriately as required.

Communication

• Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles, to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment.
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating.
• Anticipate barriers to communication and take action to improve communication.
• Maintain effective communication within the organisation and with external stakeholders.
• Ensure awareness of sources of support and guidance and provide information in an acceptable format to all patients, recognising any difficulties and referring where appropriate.

Non-Medical- Prescribing

• If you are employed in a prescribing capacity, you must only do this if qualified and competent to do so. This applies to those practitioners with V300 qualification, who have active registration with the NMC or the practitioners professional regulatory body.
• With relevant training, authorisation and experience, practitioners may be trained to use a set of specific patient group directions (PGD's). These are applicable only to nominated, authorised and competent practitioners who have undertaken training in this sphere of practice.
• You must maintain your knowledge and skills with regards to prescribing and administration of drugs, keeping up to date with any changes, alerts, recalls and other reasonable professional knowledge.

Delivering a Quality Service

• Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the NMC/HPC etc. Understand own role and scope and identify how this may develop over time.
• Produce accurate, contemporaneous, and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.
• Prioritise, organise, and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality.
• Ensure professional revalidation requirements are met.
• Deliver care according to NSF, NICE guidelines and evidence-based care.
• Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation.
• Initiate and participate in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes across the organisation and its activities.
• In partnership with other clinical teams, collaborate on improving the quality of health care responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate.
• Support and participate in shared learning across the organisation and wider organisation.
• Understand and apply guidance that supports the identification of vulnerable and abused children and adults, and be aware of statutory child/vulnerable patient health procedures and local guidance.

Leadership Personal and People Development

• Support staff development in order to maximise potential.
• Encourage others to make realistic self-assessment of their application of knowledge and skills, challenging any complacency or actions that are not in the interest of the public and/or users of services.
• Critically evaluate and review innovations and developments that are relevant to the area of work.
• Take a lead role in planning and implementing changes within the area of care and responsibility.
• Work with senior clinical and management teams to ensure sufficient staff of appropriate ability, quality and skill-mix is available to meet current and future service delivery, that selection and recruitment processes are effective and that equality of treatment of the team incorporates quality HR principles and processes.
• Contribute to the development of local guidelines, protocols and standards.
• Maintain effective communication with those responsible for the overall commissioning and procurement process.
• To attend and be proactively involved in professional meetings at base and corporately.
• Take the lead/ develop a special interest within certain areas to allow the sharing of clinical knowledge and expertise.
• Prioritise own workload and ensure effective time-management.

Corporate Responsibility

• Work as an effective and responsible team member, supporting others and exploring the mechanisms to develop new ways of working.
• Delegate clearly and appropriately, adopting the principles of safe practice and assessment of competence.
• Work effectively with others to clearly define values, direction and policies impacting upon care delivery.
• Discuss, highlight and work with the team to create opportunities to improve patient care.

Management of Risk

• Manage and assess risk within the areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients.
• Monitor work areas and practices to ensure they are safe and free from hazards and conform to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Apply infection-control measures within the organisation according to local and national guidelines.

Managing Information

• Use technology and appropriate software as an aid to management in planning, implementation and monitoring of care, presenting and communicating information.
• Review and process data in order to ensure easy and accurate information retrieval for monitoring and audit processes.

Learning and Development

• Undertake the MSc programme and apply the learning gained into everyday practice.
• Attend allocated university for scheduled learning and meet deadlines for submission of work / exams.
• Disseminate learning and information gained to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments (e.g. courses and conferences).
• Identify you own development needs in line with the MSc programme and service requirement and undertake learning as appropriate to ensure successful completion of the course.
• Ensure that personal, peer support and clinical supervision needs are met
• Work with practitioners within gtd healthcare to gain an understanding of the roles within the MDT that form our organisation.
• Provide an educational role to patients, carers, families and colleagues in an environment that facilitates learning.
• Undertake mandatory training as identified within the required timeframe.

Other duties:

• Any other duties, as agreed with the line manager to meet the needs of the organisation. This may include travel to other sites within the organisation.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered first level nurse, paramedic or other AHP/MPharm educated to degree level or above.
• GCSE Maths and English (or equivalent).
• Evidence of continuing professional development and application to practice within the last 12 months.
• Non Medical Prescriber (gateway dependent).
• Clinical Skills Module.
• Clinical supervision training and experience.

Experience

• A minimum of 5years post initial qualification.
• 3 years or more experience of working as senior clinician (band 6 or above or equivalent).
• At least 12 months of experience of working in one or more of the following:
• Primary Care
• Urgent Care
• Telephone triage
• Accountability of own role and other roles in a practitioner-led service.
• Experience in leading/managing a team of nurses.
• Experience of leading/managing quality improvement.

Skills and attributes

• Evidence of a range of clinical expertise.
• Management and treatment of patients with acute and chronic conditions.
• Management of patients with complex needs.
• Excellent oral, aural and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to enable negotiate difficult situations and conflict resolution.
• Commitment to develop, support and manage change.
• Highly motivated.
• To be able to work flexibly: Across sites - Work evenings, nights and weekends.
• Resilience.
• Team Player.
• Able to develop self and 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.

Educational Lead Trainee Advanced Practitioners

£47,500 to £49,075 a yearTraining salary Year 1 - £47,500, Year 2 - £49,075