Employer designed Assistant Practitioner Curriculum

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Employer designed Assistant Practitioner
Curriculum

• Anita Esser
• Head of Wider Healthcare Teams Education
• Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust

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Why do we need APs?

• Modernising careers
• Demographics
• Public finances
• Building on existing support roles

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SUHT Nursing Workforce Info

• Nursing WTE across Trust (April 10)
• Band 7 344 (10)
• Band 6 564 (17)
• Band 5 1476 (45) Nurse
• Band 4 84 (3) Assistant Practitioner
• Band 3 138 (4) Senior HCA
• Band 2 542 (16) HCA

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Examples of AP roles

• Ward AP
• Medical Assistant
• Assistant Theatre Practitioner
• Cardiac Physiology AP
• All Agenda for Change Band 4

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SHCA lessons learnt

• Introduced as part of Trust wide skill mix review
• In place approx 15 years
• Training based on role and competence assessed by
  qualified staff in workplace
• Cohort 33 started in May 2011
• Have over 135 WTE SHCA in post
• Development opportunities for clinical support
  staff - retention

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Career pathway model

• Enables the Trust to adapt quickly to meet
  changes in practice

Prof
Prof
Reg
Reg

• Allows for stepping on and off points at all bands

qual
qual
Additional training competencies

• Allows individuals to progress at own pace to own
  level of competence

FD
FD
Additional training competencies
Additional training competencies
Acute
Acute
Direct
NVQ units
NVQ units
Entry
Prof
Reg
Qual
SUHT delivered advanced apprenticeship
SUHT delivered apprentice -ship
Externally delivered advanced apprenticeship
SUHT delivered advanced apprentice -ship
SUHT delivered advanced apprentice -ship
FD
FD
graduate
graduate
On job
training
Band 1
Band 2
Band 3
Band 4
Band 4
Band 4
Band 4
Band 5
Band 5
Band 5
Band 3
Proposed SUHT Career Pathway Options from Band 1-5
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Why Foundation Degree?

• Based on requirements of roles
• Formalise internal pilot programme
• A South Central SHA preferred provider
• Funding available for course fees
• All employees, not traditional students
• Career development for support staff
• Access to professional undergrad programmes

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Partner - Southampton Solent University (SSU)

• Strategic Alliance with SUHT
• Widening participation in learning
• Meet employer needs
• No other Health programmes
• Social worker programmes
• Health and fitness programmes
• Look to contextualise where possible

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Shape of FD

• Fd(Sc) Health and Social Care
• 2 years full time/3 years part time
• 120 credits Level 4/120 credits Level 5
• Validated as modules
• Full Fd - Core and Option modules
• Create one Fd with several workbased pathways
• Mapped to year 1 of pre-reg programmes

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Support in learning

• Non-traditional learners
• Support by health services library team
• Experience of supporting NVQ students
• Effective use of knowledge resources
• Ongoing evidence-based practice/CPD
• Student and employee SSU and SUHT
• Partnership approach for library services?