Advanced clinical practitioner posts across West Yorkshire and Harrogate are advertised on NHS jobs. Please look at all adverts as Bradford Teaching Hospitals Trust will be hosting adverts for primary care.
\nIf an HEE ACP funded trainee post is secured, the application for the MSc programme will be via the apprenticeship route.
Overview
The application deadlines for the next intakes are:
- September 2023 start: 1 September 2023
- January 2024 start: 15 December 2023
The Advanced Clinical Practitioner programme at the University of Bradford offers students the opportunity to apply knowledge to a range of clinical and professional situations through reflection and practice experience, supported by an experienced clinical supervisor.
It develops skills designed to meet the challenges of delivering and advancing quality healthcare within a global context.
Learning and teaching is designed to equip students with skills in using a range of information, data, tools and techniques to improve the quality of patient care and health outcomes and demonstrate impact and value.
The programme is intended to:
- Provide a flexible educational framework that is vocationally relevant, which meets your professional development needs, as well as the organisational needs of employers
- Provide opportunities for inter-professional teaching and learning to share the knowledge, skills and experience common to a range of different health and social care disciplines
- Stimulate you to become a self-directed learner who is motivated to sustain and advance your own continuous professional learning
- Develop your clinical skills, knowledge and critical understanding to an advanced level, applicable to your own field of practice including complex problem-solving and risk assessment.
- Prepare you to become an autonomous practitioner, to work in advanced and specialist roles with high levels of accountability
- Develop you as a practitioner who will innovate, promote evidence-informed practice and improve service user outcomes
- Develop you as a critically reflective, competent leader who acts as a role model and manages service development towards effective, sustainable, inclusive, fair and ethically sensitive service provision
Professional accreditation
This course is approved by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN).
The MSc programme is accredited by HEE, this accreditation allows graduates achieving an MSc Advanced Clinical Practitioner award to apply for the HEE Digital 'Advanced' badge.
Learning and assessment
Whilst following this programme of study, you will engage with learning through a range of teaching methods. These methods will be dependent on modules studied, however student-centred approaches to learning are a feature of the modules and you will be expected to take responsibility for your learning as you develop your academic skills.
There are a number of approaches to the manner in which modules are delivered and these include block attendance, study day attendance, distance learning and blended learning. When devising your study plan with your academic advisor, you will be informed regarding which delivery methods are utilised for which module.
The aims of the teaching and learning strategies have been designed so that you will be given the opportunity to develop theoretical understanding, research informed knowledge and critical thinking to develop a range of skills appropriate to your professional field, your organisation and workplace setting. You will also develop your skills and knowledge of research and application to your practice area.
Your course of study will expose you to a range of different teaching, learning and assessment strategies required to achieve the learning outcomes.
