Job Description
We are excited to be advertising for aBand 7 Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner(ACP), to work and develop within AWP’s Specialised Eating Disorder Services.
Successful candidates will undertake a full Masters Degree Programme (MSc) in Advanced Clinical Practice, which will be deliveredpart-time over three years, blending online, academic and clinical practice learning. The programme will be delivered as an apprenticeship by an identified University, starting in the Autumn of 2023.
What does it mean for me?
Throughout the course of your training, you will work as a Band 7 Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner, which will be a bespoke training post, sitting within our Specialised Eating Disorder services. After the three years, and on successful completion of all the training components, you will be offered a Band 8a Advanced Clinical Practitioner post within AWP’s Eating Disorders pathway.
You will play a key role in innovating, developing, establishing and improving pathways within our specialist and mainstream services. This is a real opportunity to be part of a Trustwide vision to improve healthcare for people with eating disorders and related issues.
How can I meet the entry criteria?
In order to succeed, you will:
- Be a fully qualified Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker, registered with a UK Professional Body (e.g. NMC, HCPC, Social Work England)
- Have at least three years post-registration experience in a mental health role (including experience, and good clinical knowledge, of people with eating disorders).
- Be able and willing to undertake the training post full time (i.e. 37.5hpw) throughout the duration of the course, and to participate in and complete to a satisfactory standard all required components through to qualification.
- Have evidence of significant post-registration continuing professional development (CPD), which bears direct relevance to eating disorders focussed care and treatment
- Be able to articulate a clear understanding of Advanced Clinical Practice: what it means, how it could impact services and in what ways you can envision being able to use this opportunity to improve care and treatment for people with Eating Disorders.
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This is a unique and exciting opportunity, and the application process will be competitive. Here are some things to consider:
- An Advanced Clinical Practice Masters is a rewarding and career-changing programme to undertake, and, as such, it is highly demanding clinically, academically and on a personal level. It is important to consider if this is a challenge that is right for you at this stage in your life / career.
- The Programme will feature ‘blended’ learning (i.e. partly online, partly face-to-face), and that will mean needing to travel locally and further afield occasionally throughout the cours
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Clinical Practice:
Through completing the ACP Masters and embedding the acquired skills in practice, Trainee ACPs will develop the competencies to:
- Practice in accordance with their respective code of professional conduct and within their scope of practice, being responsible and accountable for their decisions, actions and omissions.
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of their broadened level of responsibility and autonomy, and the limits of own competence and professional scope of practice, including when working with complexity, risk, uncertainty and incomplete information.
- Act on professional judgement about when to seek help, demonstrating critical reflection on own practice, self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and openness to change.
- Work in partnership with individuals, families and carers, using a range of assessment methods as appropriate.
- Demonstrate effective communication skills, supporting people in making decisions, planning care or seeking to make positive changes.
- Use expertise and decision-making skills to inform clinical reasoning approaches when dealing with differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations.
- Synthesize information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses.
- Initiate, evaluate and modify a range of interventions, which may include prescribing medicines, therapies, life style advice and care.
- Exercise professional judgement to manage risk appropriately, especially where there may be complex and unpredictable events, and supporting teams to do likewise to ensure safety of individuals, families and carers.
- Work collaboratively with an appropriate range of multi-agency and inter-professional resources, developing, maintaining and evaluating links to manage risk and issues across organisations and settings.
- Act as a clinical role model/advocate for developing and delivering care that is responsive to changing requirements, informed by an understanding of local population health needs, agencies and networks.
- Evidence the underpinning subject-specific competencies i.e. knowledge, skills and behaviours relevant to the role, setting and scope, and demonstrate application of the capabilities to these, in an approach that is appropriate to the individual role, setting and scope
- Review and work to embed the evidence-based clinical programmes, including admission, assessment, treatment, discharge and aftercare, for people with eating disorders
- Establish and embed robust clinical supervision and reflective practice processes
- Take a lead on the support, coaching and mentoring of clinicians around core areas of eating disorders care practice
- Work proactively, compassionately and dynamically with the clinical service to ensure practice is orientated to contemporary ethical, clinical and professional standards
- Undertake and support the specialist assessment of physiological and/or psychological functioning for service users with eating disorders
- Review, develop and oversee the delivery of comprehensive and complex discharge and home treatment programmes using evidence-based frameworks, including strategies to manage risk for service users with eating disorders