Trainee/ Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Job summary

We are looking for a dynamic, innovative and enthusiastic individual to join our Advanced Clinical Practitioner team here at Northumbria Healthcare working within the Emergency Department

It will be expected that through completion of MSc Advanced Clinical Practice and supportive experiential learning, that the post holder will show high levels of autonomy across the four pillars of practice including clinical practice, leadership, education and research/audit. The ACP will be pivotal in developing the wider Emergency Department.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

This post falls within the provisions of Agenda for Change Annex 20 - Development of Professional Roles, whereby upon completion of an agreed set of competencies you may move onto the next pay band without the need for an application for a post at a higher level.

For further information on Annex 20, please see:

http://www.nhsemployers.org/tchandbook/annex-16-to-20/annex-20-development-of-professional-roles

Main duties of the job

Successful candidates will be supported to complete a 3 year, part time MSc programme in Advanced clinical Practice while working clinically in the department. They will be supported by an Emergency Department Consultant as a Clinical Supervisor to enable them to:

Use advanced knowledge and skills in to undertake comprehensive clinical assessments, make decisions based on clinical reasoning and initiate, evaluate and modify a range of interventions.

Provide professional senior clinical leadership and support within the specialty multi professional team and across service boundaries.

Support the wider team to build capacity and capability through work-based and interprofessional learning, and the application of learning to practice. Act as a role model, educator, supervisor, coach and mentor.

Lead clinical audits and critically engage in research activity using the results to underpin own practice, inform the practice of others and make organisational recommendations.

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.