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Profile summary
Gavin is an Advanced Practitioner with experience of working in primary care and urgent care. Alongside the role of the program lead for the Independent and Supplementary Prescribing Program, He also lectures on the Advanced Professional Practice (Clinical Practitioner) and Advanced Clinical Practitioner apprenticeship programs within the Faculty of Health under the School of Nursing and Midwifery.
He supports the wider AP team with the delivery of several modules in addition to being an educational supervisor for the HEE Centre for Advanced Practice ePortfolio.
Gavin has a passion to drive interprofessional learning within nursing, paramedicine and other allied health professions to equip learners, who are experienced clinicians within their own right, with advanced consultation skills, decision making and diagnostic skills to help the progression of non-medical advanced practice.
Gavin is still actively working in the NHS as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner within Urgent Care and Out Of Hours Services, and other education providers as a lecturer and Independent End Point Assessor.
Programme Lead for the Independent and Supplementary Prescribing Programme
Module lead for Assessment and management of minor injuries
Lecturer and marker/examiner on the following modules:
- Advanced assessment for clinical practice
- Clinical decision making and diagnostic reasoning for advanced practice
- Advancing Practice in Context
- and ad hoc support to wider postgraduate modules. programs as needed, such as the DNSPQ, GPN and SFA.
Professional memberships
- Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Adult Part 1
- Independent and supplementary prescriber
Teaching interests
- Advanced Clinical Practice
- Independent Prescribing
- Clinical Education
Roles on external bodies
Association for Prescribers: Committee Member
BAMAN Education Committee Member & Prescribing Advisor
Additional information
Current Clinical Appointments
ACP - PPG Out of Hours Service - Devon (10/2022- )
Senior Practitioner - Minor Injuries/ Urgent Treatment Centre, University Hospitals Plymouth (01/2017- )
Academic qualifications
Education and teaching, Other postgraduate qualification (e.g. PGCE, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma), PG Cert - Clinical Education , University of Plymouth
Award Date: 1 Jul 2023
Subjects allied to medicine, Other higher degree (e.g. Masters degree), MSc Advanced Clinical Practice , University of Plymouth
Award Date: 1 Dec 2022
Subjects allied to medicine, First Degree, BSc ( hons) Nursing Adult , University of Nottingham
Award Date: 1 Jul 2012
External positions
External Examiner , Medway School of Pharmacy
Jan 2024 → …
Research Interests
- Prescribing
- Advanced Practice
- Clinical Education
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being -
SDG 4 Quality Education -
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities