Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACP) Competency Framework
Until now, there has been no attempt in Wales to define the competencies required to undertake advanced clinical practice (ACP) within primary or community care.
Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW), in partnership with professionals from all health boards, has developed a Multi-Professional Advanced Clinical Practitioner’s Competency Framework for clinicians working in primary and community settings.
The feedback from the consultation is in review and the final copy of the Multi-Professional Advanced Care Practitioner’s Competency Framework will be available on Y Ty Dysgu in an e-portfolio soon.
The e-portfolio will:
- provide a way of the individual to record their current competency level as well as continuing practice development (CPD) undertaken
- facilitate completion of appraisal, revaluation and annual PADR by holding information in one place.
Why is the ACP framework important?
The framework will allow ACPs to:
- define the competencies required to work in primary and community care at an advanced level. The individual self-assesses their own competency against a series of domains and identifies the key competencies required within their scope of practice).
- map their own education and training needs to maintain and extend their scope of practice, to the type of resources needed to achieve that competency
- provide clear ‘scope of practice’ descriptors for each year of training, and planning their development, while being clear on their current scope of practice
- detail the core clinical skills which sit behind each area of practice / indicative presentation
