Workforce Transformation

Throughout 2018 the wards at Pennine Acute NHS Trust have been encouraged to adopt the process of “Bedside handovers”. Pearce (2018) describes this as communication at the bedside, giving patients a chance to ask questions and be heard.  Adopting this process has proved challenging and staff have experienced uncertainties around sharing of sensitive information, protecting privacy, how to involve patients and ultimately how to use it effectively to improve staff and patient experience.

This project is a bespoke approach enabling clinical and non-clinical staff to consolidate and extend their Cumbria Learning & Improvement Collaborative (CLIC) leadership learning (see Background section). The programme culminates in the delivery of a range of clinical leadership and improvement work-based projects and participants are awarded a Postgraduate Diploma.

This page provides information for those facilitating and/or assessing work based learning of Assistant Practitioners.

The following documents are attached to this page:

• Supporting the Trainee Assistant Practitioner Guidance Document
• Guidance for the Assistant Practitioner in Perioperative Care
• Preceptor Framework

Assistant Practitioner (AP) Resources main page

This section contains contact information for Ambassadors of the Assistant Practitioner role in the North West. You will also discover some best practice suggestions together with potential benefits of the role.

The following documents are attached to this page:

This page contains information on Assistant Practitioners across a wide range of services.

The following documents are attached to this page:

If you have implemented a new role within your service over the last year, and are seeking to establish the benefits of the role. This section includes; Role Impact Evaluation Tool to systematically gather data; case study on evaluation of the Assistant Practitioner within a hospice;  report on how Assistant Practitioners can progress (including  ongoing organisational implementation).

The Assistant Practitioner (AP) role was introduced more than a decade ago to address a skills shortage within the health and social care workforce. The AP is a “higher level support worker who compliments the registered staff and transcends traditional boundaries of care” (Skills for Health, 2009).

Links to the slides from AQuA's ACcountable Care Organisation workshops held October 2017.

Workshop 1

The Why and What of Accountable Care

Workshop 2

Governance in New Models of Care

Workshop 3

The Population Health and Prevention Network are delighted to invite you to attend their conference, ‘Building capacity and capability to deliver population health and prevention agendas: Health Education England’s role in prevention’ on Wednesday 7th March 2018 at the Queens Hotel, Leeds.

The objectives of the conference are to:

The HEE workforce Star tool was launched at the Health and Care Innovation Expo 2017.

The tool has two main functions: