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Main area
Additional Clinical Services
Grade
Apprenticeships: Apprenticeship
Contract
Fixed term: 15 months
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
319-6349650IO
Employer
Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Cobalt Business Park (Trust Wide)
Town
North Shields
Salary
£11.44 per hour
Salary period
Hourly
Closing
07/07/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust logo

Healthcare Support Worker Apprentice

Apprenticeships: Apprenticeship

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022).  Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

  • Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
  • Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
  • A range of flexible working opportunities
  • Generous annual leave and pension scheme
  • Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
  • Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
  • On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
  • Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy. 

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

 

 

Job overview

Exciting opportunities have arisen for Health Care Support Worker Level 2 Apprenticeship at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; the posts are available are working within an NHS Healthcare environment while completing a Level 2 Apprenticeship qualification (15 months).

We are looking for enthusiastic people with a professional attitude, excellent communication skills, positive work ethic and good interpersonal skills. 

Your apprenticeship will include the Care Certificate; in addition you will offer you all relevant in-house courses.

Successful applicants can develop their careers through this funded training programme. Staff new to the Trust will be employed as an apprentice contract so that they have an opportunity to ‘earn while they learn’. Rotation opportunities are available in all NHS clinical areas including surgery, medicine, theatres, Physio and community care, placements available trust wide.

Main duties of the job

Our apprenticeships offer:

  • Earn a salary while studying
  • Gain job specific skills, knowledge and behaviours
  • Study towards a related qualification including literacy and numeracy (if required)
  • Have regular pastoral support and personal development reviews
  • Are employed on a 15 month fixed term contract
  • Enjoy benefits such as paid annual leave, comprehensive mandatory training, protected time for your studies and NHS discounts

Healthcare Support Workers who complete the programme and demonstrate our Trust behaviours and values will be eligible to apply for a permanent post within the Trust. Where their qualifications meet the requirements for the post, and will be guaranteed an interview. 

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality opening a state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read applicant guidance notes before submitting your application.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To work under the supervision of the practitioner and staff members in the delivery of high quality care.

• To provide assistance and support to a broad spectrum of service users, and the multi-disciplinary team.

• Assist with daily workload within a department.

• To gain relevant work based learning within a Healthcare environment.

• Become prepared and knowledgeable within the working environment and work towards gaining a Level 2 Apprenticeship in Healthcare support worker.

Upon successful completion further NHS apprenticeships are available, Level 3 equivalent to 2 A levels, Level 5 equivalent to an Undergraduate Degree, Level 6 equivalent to a Degree and Level 7 is equivalent to a Masters!

(This post is strictly subject to satisfactory completion of the Care Certificate Programme which must be completed in the first 12 weeks of commencement of post).

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Maths & English GCSE or Equivalent, grades A-E or 9-2

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident employerCare quality commission - OutstandingStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Better Health at Work Award - Maintaining ExcellenceHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dawn Waugh
Job title
Health Apprenticeship Programme Coordinator
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01912031415
Additional information

 

 

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