ABSTRACT
The NHS needs a skilled, knowledgeable workforce of advanced clinical practitioners, who require multidisciplinary approach to their postgraduate development. To meet these demands we set up a regional programme to help clinical practitioners move into these new and demanding roles. As a result, health professionals who want to progress their career and advance their practice have an opportunity in the West Midlands to qualify as advanced clinical practitioners.
Subject(s)
Advanced Practice Nursing/education , Clinical Competence , Education, Nursing, Graduate , Nurse Practitioners/education , Advanced Practice Nursing/organization & administration , Advanced Practice Nursing/standards , Curriculum , Humans , Nurse Practitioners/organization & administration , Nurse Practitioners/standards , Program Development , State Medicine , United KingdomABSTRACT
Healthcare support workers (HCSWs) are at the front line of patient care delivery. It is essential that they are appropriately trained and competent in the skills required to deliver the fundamentals of care. There is also a need for HCSWs to have access to continuing professional development that offers a career pathway. The University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust has developed a framework for career progression that incorporates three phases of continuing professional development. These are organised and co-ordinated by a dedicated support worker training team comprising four registered nurses plus senior support workers in the role of peripatetic NVQ Care assessors.
