Faculty For Advanced Clinical Practice

Advanced Clinical Practice Supervision Conference 

the ACP conference, due to take place on 13 May, has been postponed. The revised date is 3 November 2020 – further details will follow.

For information about the work of Physician Associates working across South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw click here 

For guidance for Advanced Clinical Practtitioners around PEP click here

Guidance for Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACP) Education Training & Continuous Professional Development (CPD) click here 

Advanced Clinical Practice (ACP) Supervisor’s Guidance has been written by Mr Alex Kocheta and provides a wealth of information for supervisors of ACPs as well as for trainees themselves about the ACP training pathway.  The document will be reviewed in six months’ time (March 2020).  To view the Supervisor's Guidance click here.

Regional Community of Practice: All tACPs as well as those that have completed training have the opportunity to join and contribute to the Community of Practice. This is an exciting, interactive community of ecperienced indviduals from wide ranging clinical backgrounds, representing the grass roots provision of health care delivery. The Community of Practice meets quarterly and recieves clinical updates as well as the opportunity to attend study events. Access ois through a dedicated Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/573830642806529/

The Facebook group is a closed group, so you will beed to 'request to join' from Facebook, or email Suzanne Owens (suzanne.owens@nhs.net), who chairs the group. 

Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) Progression and Clinical Academic Support Panel (CASP) pathway: this document describes the CASP process and includes a number of documents to help guide supervisiors and trainees through this process. CASP Guide January 2020 The Faculty has recently revamped its CASP Checklist, which you should complete during your meeting with your supervisor and/or ACP lead. This is avilable to download here CASP checklist final 2020

Best Practice Guidelines - Minimum standards for supervising trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioners and Physician Associates (PAs) in South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw: this document can be dowloaded here Best Practice Guidelines Jan 2020 Final provides an overview and key recommendations for the supervision, recommended learning time in practice and numbers of clinical assessments and maintaining a portfoloio for tACPs and PAs. It includes a copy of a template Learning Agreement for you to use to agree your learning plan with your supervisor. 

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