Job Description
Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust is on an improvement journey with a refocused sense of direction. Our ambition is to be in the top quartile of Mental Health Trusts by 2023. This is where you come in….Great ambitions require great staff!
We are a large multi-site NHS mental health and learning disabilities service provider with over 4,000 staff, based across Norfolk and Suffolk.
We’re looking for an inspiringAdvanced clinical Practitionerto join our established Education and Development Team.
Our Staff are our greatest asset and how we grow and nurture their career development can have a positive impact on the care we deliver to our service users. This newly established role is key to ensuring we have established relationships with all advanced nurses across the Trust including those in training or who have an ambition to train creating a culture within the organisation which embraces those learning and developing and is committed to creating the workforce of advanced nursing the future.
We are looking for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to help us embed the role of Advanced Clinical Practice across the Trust.
The aim of the post is to help upskill the clinical workforce, providing leadership, governance and support to Non-medical prescribers, Advanced Clinical Practitioners and trainees. The support will include proving transparency and role structure including policy development, identifying CPD Requirements and guidance to prospective trainees who wish to enhance their skills.
This is an evolving role integrally linked to the wider workforce transformation agenda, innovation in clinical pathways and workforce development. The role will involve working with internal and external stakeholders, developing and creating a network of advanced practice practitioners.
The post holder will have proven leadership capability, extensive clinical experience at an advanced practice level and of working in multi-professional teams.
This is an exciting time to join NSFT as we commit to developing strong leads as part of our leadership strategy.
We believe that staff, who feel valued by their employers and are truly engaged, and able to provide better outcomes for our service users.
The covid pandemic has taught us to be truly flexible in our approach to working so although the team this role will sit amongst is based at Hellesdon Hospital in Norwich (with free car parking on site) we have many locations across Norfolk and Suffolk where you could be based.
The successful applicant will be responsible for the leadership and strategic development, across the NSFT of all the advanced (ACP) practice staff including non-medical prescribers (NMP), both trainees and qualified, as well as supporting educational supervisors and engaging with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) for the delivery of academic modules.
The successful applicantmust understand the advanced practice apprenticeship and NMP training. They must also engage fully with Health Education England and support any future relevant curriculums and credentials that are released.
The successful applicantwill also be involved in advanced nursing and NMP development of all areas within the specialty concentrating around patient safety, experience, efficiency and effectiveness aspects involving care.
The successfulapplicant willengage fully with colleague advanced practitioners and NMP’s across the trust.
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Some of the benefits you can expect:
- NHS pension
- a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- career progression
- starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- staff physio service
- NHS discounts and many more
Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.
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