1. Assistant Practitioner Role Lin Linford Assistant Practitioner - Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust (LCH) Sharon Poll GPN / Senior Nurse - NHS Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group (LCCG)
LCH working in partnership with LCCG
LCH working in partnership with LCCG

2. Chronic Disease Management Team
Innovative approach to chronic disease management
Funding through Local Enhanced Service
High quality, flexible skill set and ability to lead change
Drive high quality standards of care
LCH working in partnership with LCCG

3. Competently delivers health & social care to and for people
The Skills for Health (2009) Core Standards for Assistant Practitioners defines the AP role as a worker who:
Competently delivers health & social care to and for people
Has a required level of knowledge and skill beyond that of the traditional healthcare assistant or support worker
Ability to deliver elements of health and social care and undertake clinical work in domains that have previously only been within the remit of registered professionals
Is accountable to themselves, their employer, and, more importantly, the people they serve.
LCH working in partnership with LCCG

4. Developing the Assistant Practitioner role in general practice
Took time to understand role & standards
Developed role to meet the needs of service
Invest to continually push the boundaries
One to one’s (AP’s manage their role under guidance)
Self-directed development and practice
Work guided by standard operating procedures and protocols
LCH working in partnership with LCCG

5. Impact of role
As a manager – confident in role and standard of care delivery
Made nursing teams ‘step up a gear’
Promoted leadership at every level & strong peer support
Improved patient confidence and experience
Improved health outcomes (KPI measures)
LCH working in partnership with LCCG

6. Benefits to General Practice
High quality and flexible skill set to meet the complex need of patients
Increased productivity and high quality care
Free up registered practitioners to do what uniquely trained for
Cost effective skill set which can undertake clinical work that has previously only been within the remit of registered professionals
LCH working in partnership with LCCG

7. Key Considerations Right person
Right support to allow role to develop as required
Expect to be challenged
LCH working in partnership with LCCG

8. Lin Linford Assistant Practitioner Practice Nurse Development Team (Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust )
LCH working in partnership with LCCG

9. Why I applied to be an Assistant Practitioner
NHS constantly changing
Focus on Primary Care
Passionate about community care / General Practice
LCH working in partnership with LCCG

10. The Course In depth and challenging
Work split between university and work based learning
Work based learning key factor in success of completing course
Level 5 education
Communication skills, health promotion, anatomy & physiology, inter-professional working, health psychology, equality & diversity, care co-ordination of long term conditions, learning and assessment in practice, leadership, management & informatics, primary prevention of cardiovascular disease.
LCH working in partnership with LCCG
LCH working in partnership with LCCG

11. Role Development How it felt for me Fantastic opportunity
Apply learning
Work in new ways
Build trusted relationships
Encouraged and supported to push boundaries
Valued as a leader
LCH working in partnership with LCCG

12. What am I doing now? Work in Practice Nurse Development Team
Mentoring and peer support key role
Every Contact Counts Trainer
Health Ambassador / champion role
LCH working in partnership with LCCG

13. Thank-you Any Questions?
LCH working in partnership with LCCG