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About
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning NHS Foundation Trust which provides hospital and community health services in North Tyneside, and hospital, community health and adult social care services in Northumberland.
Contact
- Address
- Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Human Resources Department
- Northumbria House
- 7/8 Silver Fox Way, Cobalt Business Park
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- NE27 0QJ
- Contact Number
- 0191 2031415 Option 2
Trainee Neonatal Advanced Clinical Practitioner
Accepting applications until: 15-Apr-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 15-Apr-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Special Care Baby Unit - The Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital
- Address
- Northumbria Way
- Town
- Cramlington
- Postcode
- NE23 6NZ
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £49,387 - £64,750 Annex 21 - Band 8a after first 2 years
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Trainee Neonatal Advanced Clinical Practitioner
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.
Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It’s open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
We are looking for a dynamic, innovative and enthusiastic individual to join our Neonatal Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) team here at Northumbria Healthcare.
This advert is open to Nurses and AHPs with demonstratable Neonatal experience aspiring to further their skills and knowledge in Neonatal Advanced Clinical Practice.
The trainee Neonatal ACP, will develop advanced knowledge and skill to meet the capabilities presented in the Multi-professional framework for advanced clinical practice in England. It is expected that the trainee’s level of autonomy will increase to the point of independent practice working into the neonatal medical rota.
Annex 21
The provisions of Agenda for Change Annex 21 – Arrangements for Pay and Banding of Trainees, would apply whilst undertaking training in this role.
Length of training: 2 years
|
Period of Training |
Pay |
|
More than 3 years from completion of training |
60% of the pay band maximum for the qualified rate |
|
More than 2 but less than 3 years prior to completion of training |
65% of the pay band maximum for the qualified rate |
|
More than one but less than 2 years prior to completion of training |
70% of the pay band maximum for the qualified rate |
|
Up to 12 months to completion of training |
75% of the pay band maximum of the qualified rate |
For further information on Annex 21, please see:
Advert
Successful candidates will be supported to complete a 3 year, part time MSc programme in Advanced Neonatal Practice. They will be supported by the ACP lead/Deputy Lead, a named Clinical Supervisor and current Neonatal ACP Team to work independently and transition onto the medical rota as their course is ending.
Successful candidates are expected to join the medical rota at the end of year-2 and will be able to.
- Provide autonomous care to sick and vulnerable neonates including resuscitations, stabilisations until advanced neonatal/paediatric medical support is able to attend
- Use advanced knowledge and skills in to undertake ward rounds, comprehensive clinical assessments, NIPEs, make decisions based on clinical reasoning and initiate, evaluate and modify a range of interventions for neonatal patients (both term and pre term)
- Provide professional senior clinical leadership and support within the specialty multi professional team and across service boundaries
- Support the wider team to build capacity and capability through work-based and interprofessional learning, and the application of learning to practice. Act as a role model, educator, supervisor, coach and mentor to members of the wider MDT
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England?
Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The medical model on our Level 1 Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) at NSECH is a bespoke one with the medical cover exclusively provided by the Advanced Clinical Practitioner workforce the majority of the time. There is a Paediatric Consultant in the hospital 0900-2100 for support if needed but they are based within Paediatrics and have to be called to attend. Between 2100-0900 the consultant is on call from home and the ACP is the responsible personnel for SCBU admissions and the first in attendance for all neonatal emergencies.
Please see attached Job description and Personal Specifications for
- Band 7 - Trainee Neonatal Advanced Clinical Practitioner
- Band 8a - Neonatal Advanced Clinical Practitioner
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and those who have been looked after by the care system as a child or young person (for example, in foster care, children's homes, kinship or local authority care) who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Certificate of Sponsorship
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional registration with NMC / HCPC / GPC
- Relevant degree, minimum 2:2 and willingness to work toward a Masters level qualification
- Extensive and demonstratable experience within neonates as a speciality.
- Recognised teaching qualification e.g. PP126/127
- Qualified in Specialty Status (QIS) in neonatal care
- Level 3 Safeguarding
- Meets the requirement for the MMEdSci Advanced Clinical Practitioner – Neonates Post Graduate Degree Training at a provider university
Desirable criteria
- Independent and Supplementary Non-Medical Prescribing Course or able to obtain in year 2 of training
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- The Post Holder will require highly developed specialist Neonatal knowledge/clinical skills underpinned by both theory and experience.
- Professional Knowledge is at a minimum of level 6 study; however, it is essential that this theoretical level of knowledge is supplemented by specialist training and experience.
- Substantial post registration experience
- Experience of neonatal care post QIS
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Advanced clinical reasoning skills, which includes taking a detailed history taking, examination of systems, formulating differentials diagnoses and developing treatment plans and evaluating effectiveness.
- Counselling and appraisal skills
- Mentorship skills
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rachel Martinez
- Job title
- Advanced Clinical Practitioner Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 607 2736
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