Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Calling experienced healthcare practitioners with a keen interest in community frailty or community practice. We are looking for an experienced healthcare professional on the NMC or HCPC register to work as part of the multidisciplinary team based at Global House within the community setting
You will be working closely alongside medical, nursing and AHP teams in the community and virtual ward setting as a Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner (TACP). We are specifically looking for practitioners with existing academic qualifications at level 7 aligned to the MSc Advanced Clinical Practice and those who may already have completed qualifications in non-medical prescribing. It is essential that you have experience working within the community setting
Support and supervision is key to the success of the TACP role and you will be supported by a workplace supervisor in practice. You will need to continue a portfolio of evidence and complete clinical capabilities in practice alongside an academic programme developed specifically for you.
Dependent on the experience of the successful applicant, completion of a level 7 academic program and completion of the in-house capability packages you will progress to Agenda for Change Band 8a with working hours to meet the needs of the service.
The purpose of the role will be to undertake a period of training, under the supervision of an identified expert clinician to prepare for progression to Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Band 8A) role. This will involve undertaking and successfully completing work-based competencies and an MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice.
The Trainee will be expected to progress towards achieving all advanced level skills and is able to demonstrate ability to consistently perform those skills at an advanced level. All Trainees will undergo a period of consolidation and be able to demonstrate they have the skills, knowledge, and experience to meet the Band 8a Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) job description; this will include the award of an MSc in Advanced Practice.
NLAG is part of one of the largest acute and community Group arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Group has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Group and our community.
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
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