Acp Ed Adults - Prescot, United Kingdom - St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

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Prescot, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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An existing opportunity has arisen for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) Apprentice to join our busy Emergency Department Team based at the Whiston site.

An Apprenticeship is a paid job where you learn and gain valuable experience.

Alongside on-the-job training from your colleagues, apprentices spend at least 6 hours of their working week learning and studying towards their Apprenticeship through their College, University or Training Provider.

By the end of your Apprenticeship, you'll have the right skills, knowledge and behaviour needed for your chosen career.

An Apprenticeship includes:

Paid employment with holiday leave
Handsonexperience in a sector/role of their interest
6 hours per week time spent learning towards their Apprenticeship (for guidance on what this entails please see link.)
Formal assessment which leads to gaining a nationally recognised qualification
Essential and desirable criteria
RCEM documents on the role of the ACP
HEE documents on Advanced Clinical Practice in England

Year - 2 days each week will be allocated for academic time, and Clinical work in the ED will be graded, starting with ambulatory patients who are clinically stable.

The working pattern for apprentices will be in the first six months, with flexible working requests considered. There will be regular teaching sessions.

After 6 months of the first year:

The trainee will start to see patients who are non-ambulant and/or too ill to be seen direct from the waiting room but not needing active resuscitation
Evening sessions (one per week) working until 2230 Monday to Friday, working the same evening as the main supervisor

Year - In addition to the apprenticeship programme, there will be a focus on the RCEM clinical curriculum with progress being made to achieving competencies as per the curriculum.

Clinically, the trainee will clerk patients in all areas of the ED including resus on occasion but under direct supervision but excluding paediatrics.
The trainee will not discharge patients without prior discussion with a clinical supervisor
The trainee will start working weekends on a 1:3 basis

There are two shifts:
and Flexible working requests will be considered in line with the Trusts flexible working policy.

Year 3/- You will have 8 hours per week for hospital-based study and portfolio work.

Substantial progress should be made with the RCEM portfolio.
An expectation to lead on audit/QIP and other service improvement projects

St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is the only acute Trust in Cheshire and Merseyside and one of the few in the country to achieve OUTSTANDING rated by the Care Quality Commission.

We provide a full range of acute adult services to our local population of circa 360,000 and provide tertiary services across the North West, North Wales, and Isle of Man.

We are a Major Trauma Unit and the Mersey Regional Burns Unit.

Our '5 Star Patient Care' strategy is at the heart of what we do; supporting our vision to provide world class services for all our patients by getting it right for every patient, every time.

Our latest achievements include:

Acute Trust of the Year HSJ Awards November 201
Trust rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 201
Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
Best acute Trust in the North West for quality of care (NHS Staff Survey 2021)
Best place to work in the North West (NHS Staff Survey 2021)
Awarded National Preceptorship Accreditation for our Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme

In the NHS Staff Survey 2021 the Trust scored the highest marks in the North West for the following areas:

Standard of care
Best place to work
Care of patients being the Trust's priority
Staff engagement
Staff morale
Compassionate & inclusive
Providing safe environments for staff

Please see attached Wellbeing & Benefits booklet for more information on our benefits for staff. Accessible version available upon request.

Upon successful completion of training:

The post holder will lead and monitor improvements to quality of care through clinical audit, evidence based practice, clinical supervision, teaching and supporting professional colleagues and the provision of skilled professional leadership.

S/he will lead the implementation of relevant clinical guidelines into practice and contribute to the further development of the evidence base through research and audit.

S/he will play a crucial role in improving proactive management of patient care in ED by becoming an integral part of the medical staffing rota

Specific note about Non-Medical Prescribing:

Once you have completed and successfully passed the pharmacology module of the degree, and it's ratified by the Trust you will be able to prescribe from a formulary of common drugs used within the ED.

Once certified it's expected that you practice safe prescri