Trainee Advanced Critical Care Practitioner

Job overview

This advanced role will provide expert clinical care to patients requiring level 1-3 care both in Intensive care and Trust wide. The role involves extensive training to perform advanced clinical skills as per the Faculty of Intensive Care’s ‘ACCP Curriculum: Training for Advanced Critical Care Practitioners' 2023 document.  This opportunity is open to professionals from nursing and AHP backgrounds.

Main duties of the job

The employee will undertake and successfully complete an approved PGDip including clinical assessment and independent non-medical prescribing modules during the first 2 years of this employment. Employees will be expected to successfully complete an MSc in the third year of employment after qualifying as an ACCP. Extension to the training period for up to 1 year will be made if the ACCP requires further training due to mitigating circumstances; such extension will be entirely at the discretion of the Trust and the University. If the trainee is removed from any of the required courses by the university then they will cease to be employed as a trainee ACCP and their employment will be terminated with appropriate legal notice

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Advanced Critical Care Practitioners work as part of a consultant lead multi-professional critical care service at King’s. They are responsible on a day-to-day basis to the on call consultant intensivist responsible for the patient. Advanced Critical Care Practitioners perform certain clinical activities, some of which were previously in the domain of doctors. To function at this level requires the authorisation of the employer, the successful completion of a course of theoretical study and the acquisition of clinical competences outlined within this Framework, during a defined period of training.