Job summary
- Main area
- Emergency Department
- Grade
- Band 7 (annex 20)
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-7346878SC
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital
- Town
- Cramlington
- Salary
- £47,810 - £62,682 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner
Band 7 (annex 20)
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
Are you a highly skilled registered professional who wishes to take on the role of a Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Emergency Care? If so, an exciting opportunity has arisen for inspirational and motivated clinician to join our team within the Emergency department based at our Specialist Emergency Care Hospital.
You will have extensive experience of working in Primary/Secondary Care and ideally Emergency Care Experience as a senior nurse or Health Care Professional as an autonomous clinician. With your advanced clinical assessment skills, you will be responsible for managing your own caseload and assessing, treating, referring and discharging patients in your care as well as providing support and guidance to junior doctors/practitioners developing they knowledge and skills within ED.
This post falls within the provisions of Agenda for Change Annex 20 - Development of Professional Roles, whereby upon completion of an agreed set of competencies you may move onto the next pay band without the need for an application for a post at a higher level.
For further information on Annex 20, please see:
http://www.nhsemployers.org/tchandbook/annex-16-to-20/annex-20-development-of-professional-roles
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
The trainee, working under supervision, will develop advanced knowledge and skill to meet the capabilities presented in the Multi-professional framework for advanced clinical practice in England. It is expected that the trainee’s level of autonomy will increase to the point of independent practice within the specialty.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The practitioner will-
- Use advanced knowledge and skills in to undertake comprehensive clinical assessments, make decisions based on clinical reasoning and initiate, evaluate and modify a range of interventions
- Provide professional senior clinical leadership and support within the specialty multi professional team and across service boundaries
- Support the wider team to build capacity and capability through work-based and interprofessional learning, and the application of learning to practice. Act as a role model, educator, supervisor, coach and mentor
- To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries
Person specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration
Essential criteria
- Professional registration with NMC / HCPC / GPC
- Relevant degree, minimum 2:2 and willingness to work toward a Masters level qualification
- Evidence of relevant, recent study continuing education.
Desirable criteria
- Management and leadership qualification
- IR(ME)R training
- ALS / APLS
- Major Incident Training
- Prescribing qualification (where legally permitted)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive demonstrable experience in specialty / clinical area
- Experience of implementing evidence based practice
- Experience of participation in clinical audit
- Evidence of management ability and leadership qualities.
- Evidence of ability to work autonomously within a variety of clinical situations.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of leading clinical governance
- Experience of research activity
- Experience of Service Improvement / Quality Improvement / Practice Development
- Experience of developing evidence based protocols and clinical guidelines.
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
- Claire Garland
- Job title
- ED Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03448118111
- Additional information
Jayne Blackburn
Operational Service Manager
07876845914
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