Job summary
- Main area
- Apprenticeship
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 2
- Contract
- Apprenticeship: 20 months (Band 2, rising to Band 3 on completion)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 423-6791708
- Employer
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale General Hospital
- Town
- Steeton
- Salary
- £23,615 - £25,674 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Governance Office Apprentice (Band 2)
NHS AfC: Band 2
Be part of our future landscape
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
Job overview
Do you want to work for an organisation making a real difference, while studying to achieve a qualification? Then this is the opportunity for you!
You'll learn, grow, and advance in a diverse and impactful organisation, where we’ll empower you to bring your skills, your curiosity, and reach your full potential.
Main duties of the job
Your Apprenticeship
You'll start your apprenticeship programme in December 2024 with our Corporate Governance team. Across the 20 month programme, we will provide you with the opportunity to develop a range of skills and achieve your fully funded professional qualification, Corporate Governance Officer - Level 4, learning through our provider, CSA.
As the Corporate Governance Officer Apprentice, you will play a key role in providing administrative support to Trust’s Corporate Governance function with the opportunity to learn and grow as part of a collegial team. This role will allow the successful candidate to learn about Governors, Membership, Board formation along with legal and regulatory requirements. This will provide a strong foundation to how Corporate Governance works in a multi-faceted team while providing a real contribution to the Corporate Governance of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust.
Working for our organisation
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
- Cycle to Work
- Travel Scheme
- Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
- Onsite Nursery
- Buying and Selling Annual Leave
- Car Leasing
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee Health and Wellbeing
- Extensive Reward Scheme
- Counselling Service
- Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
- Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our values:
We understand that it’s down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience – we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:
- Committed to Quality of Care
- Compassion
- Working together for patients
- Improving Lives
- Everyone Counts
- Respect and Dignity
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To comply with the apprenticeship eligibility rules, at the start of the apprenticeship you must be aged 18 or over, living in England, and not in full time education and have the right to work in the UK.
To apply for this role, you must:
- Not have a governance qualification at level 4 or higher
- Have or willing to work towards as part of the apprenticeship, GCSE A-C/level 2 certificate in maths and English (those without certificates can be assessed to check you are at level 2 standard).
- Not be an overseas national subject to employment or learning restrictions and/or a time or a limit on my stay (other than a refugee or asylum seeker)
- Be ordinarily resident in the England, EU or EAA for at least the previous three years before the start of the programme.
- Not be attending any other school, Further Education or Higher Education institution.
- Willing to undergo a DBS check (disclosure and barring check)
For further information and full details of the job role please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Knowledge
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of NHS Corporate Governance practices
- Knowledge of Foundation Trust basic governance structure (Board of Directors and Council of Governors).
Skills
Essential criteria
- A strong commitment towards successfully completing the Level 4 Corporate Governance Officer Apprenticeship
- Good spoken and written English (including good grammar), with the ability to clearly communicate both in person and in writing.
- Excellent organising and co-ordinating skills
- Able to form relationships and liaise with different members of the organisation in different roles and levels.
- A drive to be curious, to understand problems and want to solve them
- Experience of prioritising workload in a work or a social/personal environment
Desirable criteria
- IT and digital skills set (e.g. comfortable learning new software by doing, such as Google Docs, online project management systems and remote collaboration tools such as MS Teams/Yammer).
- Ability to use Microsoft Office IT systems and software packages
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Willingness to work towards GCSE A-C/Level 2 in Maths and English as part of the apprenticeship
Desirable criteria
- GCSE A-C/Level 2 in Maths and English.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Vena Reid
- Job title
- Corporate Governance Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535 294815
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