Job summary
- Main area
- 317 Peri-operative NMET Trainees - RVI
- Grade
- Band 7 to Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 317-2025-37-001
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trustwide
- Town
- 317 Trustwide
- Salary
- £47,810 - £62,682 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/09/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 16/10/2025
Employer heading
Advanced Critical Care Practitioner (Trainee–Foundation)
Band 7 to Band 8a
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice (Critical Care) through a three year competency based apprenticeship programme including two years supernumerary, to achieve the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine ACCP membership requirements and non-medical prescribing, and a clinical Foundation Year for completion of the full MSc - Band 7.
On successful completion of the full Msc In Advanced Clinical Practice, including non-medical prescribing, FICM ACCP membership requirements and a full clinical Foundation Year of practice over three years – Band 8a.
- Interview Date Thursday 16 October 2025
- 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Main duties of the job
- In this advanced role the post holder will provide expert clinical management and care to patients in Critical Care and work towards a role traditionally undertaken by doctors working as a stage 1 Intensive Care Medicine trainee
- Following successful completion of the first two years of Advanced Clinical Practice (ACP) training at Masters level, the post holder will work as a Foundation ACP in adult critical care for a full calendar year to consolidate the knowledge and clinical skills developed during training including a non-medical prescribing course
- On completion of three years training at Masters level and following successful appraisal the trainee will progress to a band 8a Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Adult Critical Care
Working for our organisation
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
• Freeman Hospital
• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service
• Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are looking for highly motivated, enthusiastic and dynamic individuals, committed to developing the role of an advanced clinical practitioner in adult critical care, providing expert clinical management to level 1-3 critically ill patients. As a trainee Advanced Critical Care Practitioner you will already be an experienced clinician with critical care knowledge and possess the drive to develop in the four pillars of Advanced Practice.
The trainee role requires attendance on a 3-year Masters level competency-based training apprenticeship programme in line with the DOH (2008) ‘National Education & Competency Framework for Advanced Critical Care Practitioners’ and the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM) ‘Curriculum for Training for Advanced Critical Care Practitioners (2023)’. This will be facilitated collaboratively between Northumbria University and Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Hospitals.
The Advanced Clinical Practitioner MSc award (Advanced Critical Care Practitioner) is reflective of the NHS England (NHSE) Multiprofessional framework for advanced clinical practice in England (2025) and has been designed following the NHSE Centre for Advancing Practice (CfAP) Standards for Education and Training (SETS) (2021). The programme is specifically aligned and designed to meet the requirements of the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IFATE) Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Integrated degree). Candidates will be expected to meet the minimum entry criteria for the apprenticeship and for the Northumbria University MSc.
In parallel with the university delivered components of the MSc, experience will be gained by completing clinical placements in four adult critical care units. All of the Trusts’ critical care units are busy and dynamic whose philosophies are to invest in and develop the workforce and practice. The four critical care units are:
Freeman Hospital
- Cardiothoracic ICU – 15 beds, admitting approx 1,200 patients/year, plus 6 level 2 beds. The unit specialise in: Cardiac Surgery, Thoracic Surgery & Heart and Lung Transplantation.
- Integrated Critical Care Unit - 22 beds (ICU and HDU), admitting approx. 1,200 patients/year. The Critical Care unit specialises in: Hepato-biliary; Hepatology and Liver Transplantation, Major Vascular Surgery; ENT and General Surgery, Respiratory and General Medicine, Renal and Urology, Orthopaedics and Cardiology.
Royal Victoria Infirmary
- Ward 38 - ICU/HDU- 20 beds, admitting approx 1200 patients/year. The unit specialises in Burns and Plastics, Upper & Lower GI surgery, Obstetrics, general medicine and general surgery.
4. Ward 18 - ICU/HDU – 22 beds (ICU & HDU) admitting approx 1500 patients/year. The unit specialises in: Neurosurgery, Trauma and infectious diseases.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential criteria
- Be registered as a healthcare professional with a nursing, physiotherapy, paramedic or pharmacist background
- Professional qualification plus healthcare related Honours Degree
Desirable criteria
- Possession of or working towards a Masters
- Hold a recognised teaching qualification
- Hold a recognised leadership qualification
- Successful completion of Clinical Skills module (Masters level equivalent)
- Successful completion of History Taking module (Masters level equivalent)
- Successful completion of Non-Medical Prescribing module (Masters level equivalent)
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Recent extensive clinical experience in Critical Care or Emergency Care (to Masters degree level or equivalent)
- Evidence of healthcare leadership experience
- Evidence of being self-motivated, pro-active and personally resilient
- Evidence of capability and commitment to teach and train other staff
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of teaching experience outside of a single professional group
- Significant contribution to healthcare quality improvement project(s)
- Evidence of involvement with and/or credentials in healthcare research or audit
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to prioritise a complex workload and work in a rapidly changing environment
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
- Alexandra Gatehouse
- Job title
- Lead Advanced Critical Care Practitioner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07515824319
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