Advanced Clinical Practitioners

Organisations across Humber, Coast and Vale are keen to support the training of more advanced clinical practitioners than ever before. Health Education England agreed to support more than 100 trainee advanced clinical practitioners in the area during 2019/20.  We recruited 79 trainee advanced clinical practitioners in 2019/2020 into hospitals, general practice, community and mental health services across the region. Organisations recruit independently through the NHS Jobs website in partnership with universities, following which offers are made pending successful applications to university programmes. If you would like to be apply keep an eye on NHS jobs because organisations will be recruiting again over the coming months for a January 2021 start with our local Universities.

As a primary care workforce and training hub in Humber, Coast and Vale,  Haxby Group and Freshney Green are able to provide support for local practices and co-ordinate local schemes on behalf of Health Education England.

• Apprenticeship  in Advanced Clinical Practice 
• Primary Care Advanced Clinical Practitioners
• Secondary Care – Trauma and Orthopedics
• Secondary Care – Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Secondary Care – Intensive Care

In the Humber, Coast and Vale area, the University of Hull and the University of York offer MSc degrees in advanced practice. Beyond the Humber, Coast and Vale area, Huddersfield University, Bradford University, Leeds University, Sheffield University, Leeds Beckett University and Sheffield Hallam University offer MSc degrees in advanced practice.

Standards for Advanced Clinical Practitioner MSc Apprenticeship programmes have now been approved by the Institute for Apprenticeships.  The Level 7 Apprenticeship programme will be delivered by higher educational institutions (HEIs) listed on the Register of Apprentice Training Providers (RoTAP) and the Register of End Point Assessment Organisations (RoEPAO).  The Apprenticeship programme will combine on-programme academic and work based learning and assessment, cumulating in an End Point Assessment (EPA) of the achievement of knowledge, skills and behaviours as outlined in the apprenticeship standard.

Please click here to see the Apprenticeship Standards.

For local guidance on how the Apprenticeship programme may impact your organisation, please see the Humber, Coast and Vale ACP Apprenticeship Guidelines for Employers.

The Faculty have developed a pipeline into Advanced Clinical Practice, showing all routes of access.  Click here to see the pipeline.

• Emergency care
• Frailty
• General Practice/Primary Care
• Intensive care medicine
• Mental Health
• Ophthalmology
• Sexual health and HIV specialist integrated curriculum
• Supporting autistic people and/or people with a learning disability

The Workforce Training Hub, Haxby Group, offer an ACP Ready Scheme.  Click here for further details.

The Faculty have developed a Quality Strategy to support the Delivery Plan. The strategy combines quality improvement and assurance, supported by a quality framework, in order to reduce unwanted variation in the quality of learning environments and support the sustainable growth of ACPs that meets the needs of patients, employers and staff. It has been co-designed with stakeholders of the Faculty, including ACPs themselves, and aligned with national and regional policies.

The Faculty are working to ensure clinical competency aligns to completion of the Masters in Advanced Practice by:

1. 1. Creating clinical competency portfolio(s) for use across Humber, Coast and Vale
   2. Reviewing best practice guidance in mentorship and supervision, identifying and promoting system wide implementation in a challenging environment
   3. Seek ways in which to optimise clinical simulation and include in above
   4. Identify robust methods of assessment and include in the elements above
   5. Preparing the clinical environment

The Faculty are working to consider and promote retention strategies that include:

1. Development of a career pathway for ACPs that includes opportunities to diversify clinically, education, leadership and management that will aid retention
2. On-going learning opportunities that include formal and informal activities

The  Faculty of Advanced Practice are facilitating monthly online learning opportunities for qualified and in-training ACPs.  Please click here to see further information and book a place.