Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a multidisciplinary Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner (TACP) at Band 7 to join our Urgent Community Response Services Directorate within the Primary Care, Community, and Therapies Clinical Group (PCCT).

Whether you are beginning your TACP journey or  partway through your MSc in Advanced Practice and considering a move into Urgent Community Response services, this role offers supportive and progressive environment to continue your development.

You'll work within a skilled and experienced team contributing to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) 10-Year Health Plan for England, focusing on key NHS priorities and the Three Major Shifts.

You'll collaborate with a multi professional ACP team, trainee ACPs, enhanced practitioners, community matrons and case managers.

Our Trust has a strong understanding of advanced practice. The directorate is supported by our Lead ACP, working  closely with the organisation’s Director of Advanced Practice to ensure robust supervision, governance, and delivery across all four pillars of advanced practice.

Why Join Us?

Our Trust is proud to have an innovative model, delivered by a multidisciplinary team, embracing a “no wrong door” approach,  ensuring patients reach the right service the first time.

If you are an experienced, forward-thinking practitioner with a passion for innovation and integrated care, we'd be delighted to hear from you.

Base location: Primarily Sandwell Council House.

Main duties of the job

You'll be expected to successfully complete the MSc Advanced Clinical Practice (Level 7) programme in line with the Trust’s advanced practice framework and your professional regulatory body.

The MSc programme will support your development and mapping against the Virtual Ward and Urgent Community Response Capabilities Framework (2022) as part of the NHS ePortfolio.

The TACP role, forms an 85:15 split between clinical practice and protected study time to support academic learning, skills development, and progression throughout the programme.

As a TACP, you'll build on your existing clinical experience to manage patients within the Urgent Community Response (UCR) setting. Working closely with your clinical mentor, you'll learn to undertake patient‑focused assessments, manage a range of medical presentations, and request or perform appropriate investigations within the community environment.

Over time, you will be expected to work autonomously within recognised clinical situations.

With training, you will begin to understand and apply the principles of therapeutics and safe prescribing, working within legal and professional frameworks for advanced practice. 

With the support of the MSc programme and following completion of all required Trust competencies, the trainee ACP will progress to a Band 8a Advanced Clinical Practitioner role at the end of the agreed training period.

Working for our organisation

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWB) serves Birmingham and the Black Country – one of the country’s most culturally diverse areas. It’s a friendly and welcoming place – a place where you can belong, and a place where you can grow.  

We care for our patients, we care about our population, and we care about our people.   

Our values – Ambition, Respect and Compassion – are at the heart of who we are. They guide us every step of the way; how we work with each other, and how we look after our patients and their families; how we respect and value the rich diversity of our team and our community.    

Our Trust has always aspired to be more than a hospital, more than a healthcare provider. Our purpose is to “Improve the Life Chances and Health Outcomes of our Population.” It is what inspires, drives, and unites us every day. It’s what makes us unique.   

We want working at SWB to feel like more than just a job. We want our Trust to be a place where you can feel you belong. A place where you feel happy, safe, and rewarded. A place where you can develop your career in whatever way you choose.  When we say we’re ‘with you all the way’ we want you to know that we mean it. Visit the SWB website to find out more about our ambitions and people plans.   

Multi-site working 

The four partner Trusts of the Black Country Provider Collaborative (Dudley Group NHS FT, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust) are actively working in partnership to deliver a collective vision focused on providing "better, faster and safer care to the population of the Black Country and beyond". 

To support this vision, we are (where appropriate and safe to do so) actively looking at new models of care which:

Against this context, although this post is hosted by Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, there may be an expectation to work flexibly across the four partner Trusts to better meet patient and service needs.