Job summary
- Main area
- Apprentice Multi Professional Advanced Practitioner
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 311-F669-24
- Employer
- Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Woodbank Unit
- Town
- Stockport
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 05/06/2024
Employer heading
Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner-Female PICU
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
We hope that you will join us as our Band 7 Apprentice Advance Practitioner on Woodbank a female PICU.
You will be instrumental in initiating and leading change, and embrace the responsibility of professional leadership and advice, in both the development and coordination of care to service users and their families/carers with a range of mental health needs.
You will be responsible for the provision of advanced mental health practice within the service location they are based within.
You will demonstrate a highly developed, advanced and expert knowledge, in depth experience and clinical skills within the domain of mental health services. You will embrace and challenge the depth and breadth of current and future professional practice, exercising a high level of professional autonomy. A highly visible profile is expected, in order to provide clinical and professional leadership, promoting advanced practice, education to others, research activity and publication.
Main duties of the job
Within the apprenticeship the post holder would develop their role within the four pillars of ACP practice:
- Clinical Care,
- Education including lecturing, teaching others (see below),
- Leadership including ward rounds, leading patient care and clinical quality improvement, change management.
- Research including service evaluations, audit and service developments
Working for our organisation
This is a chance to be involved in helping to deliver a service based on the principles of the RAID model of care including positive behavioural support and trauma informed interventions, whilst drawing on your knowledge and expertise. It is an exciting and transformational project. In the apprenticeship role, there are flexible units which will be tailored to the needs of the service alongside practical learning through shadowing other Advanced Clinical Practitioners and other services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The postholder will commit to completing the Advanced Clinical Practitioner training
integrated degree/masters’ apprenticeship qualification whilst managing a caseload of complex cases on the inpatient unit. This apprenticeship will be undertaken in collaboration with an approved training provider and includes both classroom sessions as well as work- based assessment within the clinical environment. Apprentices complete a portfolio of evidence to demonstrate their learning and skills in practice.
The post-holder will be responsible for the provision of advanced mental health practice within the service location they are based within.
The post-holder will be key in the development of a new approach to mental health care. They will apply their advanced expertise in a range of care settings including both first contact and on-going care delivery. They will work across traditional boundaries providing comprehensive assessment and management of service users and families with a range of mental health needs.
The post holder will work as an autonomous practitioner, providing clinical assessment and treatment to a diverse group of service users requiring either crisis or ongoing care.
The post holder will demonstrate a highly developed, advanced and expert knowledge, in depth experience and clinical skills within the domain of mental health services. They will embrace and challenge the depth and breadth of current and future professional practice, exercising a high level of professional autonomy. A highly visible profile is expected, in order to provide clinical and professional leadership, promoting advanced practice, education to others, research activity and publication.
The post holder will be instrumental in initiating and leading change, and embrace the responsibility of professional leadership and advice, in both the development and coordination of care to service users and their families/carers with a range of mental health needs.
Person specification
EDUCATION/QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
- GCSE English and Maths AC/4-9 or Functional Skills level 2.
- Up to date Professional Registration with NMC
- Clinical supervision training and experience
- Commitment to complete training as an Advanced Practitioner
Desirable criteria
- Teaching qualification
- Speciality qualification – Non-medical prescribing
- Training in psychosocial or other specific interventions in mental health
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with service users’ with complex needs, and their families / carers’
- Compiling protocols and clinical guidance
- Audit
- Significant experience of working at a senior clinical level
- Experience working in a PICU environment
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of delivering teaching and training programmes to staff groups
- Evidence of delivering presentations at local, regional, national level.
- Research experience
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Management of service users’ and their families / carers’ with complex needs
- Accountability of own role and other roles within the team
- Sound knowledge of Local and national health policies particularly those related to service users’ and their families / carers’ with complex needs.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of issues affecting services users’ and their families / carers
- Clinical examination skills
- Knowledge of legislation affecting service users’ and their families / carers’ with complex needs
Skills and Abilties
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication and leadership skills
- Negotiation and conflict management skills
- Change management
- Ability to work across boundaries
- Demonstrate the ability to work in highly demanding environment
- Competent in use of IT packages such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
- Able to articulate personal development needs
Desirable criteria
- Able to demonstrate imaginative and effective use of resources
- Competent in databases and spreadsheets
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Emma Mallard
- Job title
- Advanced Clinical Practitioner
- Email address
- [email protected]
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
225 Old Street
225 Old Street
OL6 7SR
- Telephone
- 01617163181
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