Job summary
- Main area
- Emergency Medicine
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (80% Clinical/20% SPA)
- Job ref
- 110-NMR249-0625
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Glamorgan Hospital
- Town
- Llantrisant
- Salary
- £54,550 - £61,412 Band 8a depending on level of experience. Annex 21 to be applied
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Advanced Clinical Practitioner (fully qualified or Annex 21)
Band 8a
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Job overview
Emergency Medicine: Senior Advanced Clinical Practitioner
We have an exciting development opportunity for a suitably qualified and experienced professional who would like to extend their scope of practice to an advanced level.
Where required, the post holder will be expected to undertake a four-year training programme under Annex 21 (Band 8a) working towards achieving a level 7 qualification in advanced practice and local consultant sign-off as an EM:ACP.
Annex 21 remuneration applies (60% of the top of Band 8a pay for Year 1, 65% of the top of Band 8a pay for Year 2, 70% of the top of Band 8a pay for Year 3, 75% of the top of Band 8a pay for Year 4).
Note : No finanical detriment if the successful candidate is an existing NHS Wales employee.
Those candidates who fulfill the full role criteria are welcome to apply, and they would be eligible for appointment at Band 8a.
Main duties of the job
- The post holder will work as part of the clinical team in the ED and will be committed to a pathway of training and education aligned to registration with RCEM as an EM-ACP
- Within the ED there is substantial exposure to the breadth of EM cases ranging from seriously ill or injured adults and children to minor injuries with ample opportunities to develop EM procedural skills
- Weekly departmental training is provided to support knowledge & skill acquisition and progress your training needs. You will also be allocated a consultant clinical supervisor and a qualified ACP mentor to support your transition into the department
- Your role will have an 80/20 split with clinical time and protected SPA time to support your growth across all 4 pillars of advanced practice.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac
Clinical Practice
- Provide care that is absed on evidence and supports effective and eddicient use of resources
- Provide an advanced level of assessment through accurate and detailed history taking, physiological examination and appropraite diagnostic testing.
- Have the authority to request andy further investigations as required e.g. ECG's, blood chemistry, radiology imaging
- Use a wide range of expanded clinical skills appropraite to the area of practice e.g. intravenous injections, insertion of sutures, taking and interpreting blood gases
Education
- Undertake specific training programmes relating to own role
- Evaluate own practice and seek feedback from others
- Act as a resource for students and learners, junior members of staff and other members of the multi-disciplinary team
- Provide specialist training for other professional groups
Leadership and Management
- Continue to develop a high standard of leadership, motivational and teaching skills, acting as a role model at all times
- Develop advanced practice and staff development through clinical supervision, motivation and empowerment
- Attend and deliver teaching and support the development of other staff
- Support the ED management team with management issues including recruitment and personal and professional development of staff as required.
Research and Audit
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Participate in and undertake clinical research including the collection and collation of data as required to inform internal and external professional and operational bodies
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Undertake audits and surveys in own area, including tracking and trending concerns and complaints and one off complex audits.
- Lead departmental audits of patient care and safety e.g. pain management, clinical pathways
- Participate in research projects ongoing within the department and may on occasion lead the research projects.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current professional registration
- Resuscitation Council UK Advanced Life Support (ALS)
- Evidence of post-registration CPD
Desirable criteria
- Registration as an non-medical prescriber
- Paediatric Life Support provider (EPLS/APLS)
- Teaching & assessing qualification
- Leadership & management qualification
- Working towards RCEM ACP curriculum
- Level 7 Education
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post registration experience in Emergency or Unscheduled Care.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working as an autonomous Emergency Care Practitioner.
- Experience of quality improvement and audit.
- Experience of delivering teaching/training.
- Experience of leadership.
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.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Johnathan George
- Job title
- Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01443 443 443
- Additional information
Donna Seldon
Senior Nurse ED
01443 443 443 ext. 76050
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