Welcome to the Advanced Clinical Practice section of this online resource. Please take a moment to familiarise yourself with this programme, and don’t hesitate to get in touch with the Programme team for any queries.
Programme Intent
The MSc Advanced Clinical Practice degree apprenticeship is a programme for registered health professionals who are working at higher levels of practice and who want to develop their career to become ACPs. The programme aims to enable learners to meet The Centre of Advancing Practices’ multi-professional framework capabilities in the four pillars of advanced clinical practice, leadership, education and research.
Implementation
A blended and flexible learning journey supports learners to contextualise understanding; drawing on peers, practitioners and academics to deliver a personalised learning experience, with learning applied directly into the workplace.
Impact
Advanced clinicians, leaders and educators with a strong research background emerge from this programme. The development of this highly skilled workforce is a key priority within the NHS Long Term Plan (2019) and is being strongly driven by Health Education England and is endorsed by the Council of Deans for Health (CoDH).
Key Contacts
| Role | Name | Contact |
| Programme Leaders | Ellie Squires Kelly Lefteri Laura Eccott | mscacp@herts.ac.uk |
| Absence reporting | Admin team | apprenticeabsence@herts.ac.uk |
| Employer Liaison Tutors | Ruth Chadwick | r.chadwick2@herts.ac.uk |
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Programme Newsletters
Newsletters for the ACP degree apprenticeship and MSc ACP programmes are sent out to supervisors and employers each semester. To ensure you are on the mailing list contact mscacp@herts.ac.uk
Preparing for EPA
It is the role of the Mentor to officially sign the apprentice off as “occupationally competent” as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner at the Gateway meeting, and the mentor is supported by the Tutor with all the information to make this decision. A comprehensive Gateway to EPA Checklist underpins this activity. Our programme team will make all the necessary EPA arrangements as the University acts as the End Point Assessment Organisation.
The programme team will guide the learners through the preparation of the End Point Assessment (open book exam and presentation) through online training sessions during this period. The PRMs cease for this period but are replaced with light touch “check-ins” with the mentor and learner to address any issues beyond the development of the case studies and presentation.
Mentors (and/or other designated medical practitioners) are required to sign the case studies used in the open book exam to verify that they have occurred in the workplace during the apprenticeship period. Mentors are also encouraged to actively engage with their learners’ preparation for EPA by practising their 25-minute presentation with them.
Sample mapping of your KSB’s to modules