Trainee Advanced Practitioner in Acute Medicine and SDEC

We are excited to recruit a Full time Trainee Advanced Practitioner (AP) in Acute Medicine/SDEC AP based in the Bristol Royal Infirmary. We are a Team of 3 currently, one qualified AP and x 2 trainees who are now in their 2nd year. As a trainee you will be required to enrol on an approved AP Apprenticeship or eportfolio route if you have not achieved an accredited MSc in Advanced Practice. You will also be required to have an active eportfolio to evidence your competence across the acute medicine curriculum. Potentially you will be working towards qualification over a period of 3 years depending on academic and clinical experience, achieving a band 8a at the end. As a trainee it is expected you will work 30 hours clinical a week with 7.5 hours off shop floor. You will be allocated an educational supervisor to support your learning and development. You should be well organised, IT savvy and have an excellent record of professional conduct. The successful candidate will expect
regular educational teaching; short placements for learning opportunities in other areas of practice e.g. ED and ITU. You will work across the whole of the department including SDEC, the Medical take and AMU ward depending on where you are in your training. Once qualified as an AP your job plan will remain 80% clinical with 20% Non-clinical where you will ensure continuing competence across all 4 pillars and as required admin/audit/quality improvement projects/management responsibilities.

Main duties of the job

- Practice in compliance with your code of professional conduct and within your agreed scope of practice, being responsible and accountable for your decisions, actions and omissions at this level of practice.

- Practice at a high level of clinical expertise in assessing and diagnosing patients who present to Acute Medicine.

- Demonstrate a critical understanding of your broadened level of responsibility and autonomy and the limits of your own competence and professional scope of practice including working with complexity, risk and incomplete information.

- Act on professional judgement about when to seek help, demonstrating critical reflection on your 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 (history taking, holistic assessment, identifying risk factors in mental health assessments, requesting, undertaking and interpreting diagnostic tests.

- Use expertise and decision making skills to inform clinical reasoning approaches when dealing with differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate evidence based judgements and diagnoses.

- Initiate, evaluate and modify a range of interventions including prescribing medicines, therapies, lifestyle advice and care., welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as 'Good' overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward- thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the