Events

Exploring Enhanced, Advanced & Consultant Level Practice, 26th June 6.30-8.30 pm

Capacity = 100
Places available = 100

Description of event:

This webinar is funded by the National HSCP office and is open to all Radiation Therapists working in HSE departments. If you have any registration issues please email iirrtcpdofficer@gmail.com.

Advancing practice has been common practice across Radiotherapy within UK practice for several years, but not in all regional locations or themes of practice, and not always in other countries. This session will explore the development of these services to inform your personal, regional or national approaches and goals to developing roles.

 Covering enhanced, advanced and consultant-level practice, we will explore what each of these levels of practice means and consider how they can impact the wider service and provide career progression opportunities for practitioners. At all levels of practice, the four pillars of practice should also be considered: Clinical, Education, Leadership and Research, we will look at examples of how the four pillars build across the levels of advancing practice and how we can develop ourselves towards our career goals.

Previously these roles were seen as a way to ‘fill’ gaps in clinical service. However, across services, advancing practice is now seen more as a valuable addition to service delivery and as a career progression opportunity rather than covering the lack of medical staffing.

To support this career progression there has been standardisation of practice across all professions working at the different levels of practice, we can share and discuss this UK approach to inform practice development, recognise the wide transferable skill set of a Radiation Therapist in advancing practice and how practitioners can provide impact on the service and use underpinning guidelines to ensure parity of level of practice across nursing, midwifery and AHPs.