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At Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT), we strive to provide high-quality mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice. We can only achieve this by putting our staff and the people using our services at the centre of everything we do. This starts with the people we employ. We recruit based on values and qualifications (where required) and believe lived experience is an advantage. We look for potential, not perfection, and this means that together, we are as diverse as the communities we care for.
Simply put, we seek out people who care, act with integrity and have the right skills. We want to add to our incredible colleagues, students and volunteers who share these principles, with people like you, who find empathy comes easily and who treat everyone with respect without thinking. Search our latest jobs to start your journey with us.
Apprenticeship and Employability Officer
Band 6
Main area: People and Organisational Development
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 173-19025-COR
Site: St Marys Hospital
Town: Leeds
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 Per Annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 23/04/2025 23:59
Interview date: 09/05/2025
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Job overview
The Apprenticeship and Widening Participation team aims to ensure that apprenticeships and employability initiatives are recognised, respected and used as an effective way to deliver a skilled, diverse workforce across a broad range of clinical and non-clinical roles. This varied and rewarding role plays a key part in achieving this ambition.
The Apprenticeship and Employability Officer leads the development, implementation, expansion, and ongoing management of apprenticeships and employability programmes across the Trust. They also support the Trust’s strategic lead by providing advice, support and input into key employability strategies.
Day to day, this means leading work which widens access to employment for local people, from all backgrounds, and enhances employability through apprenticeship programmes.
Main duties of the job
We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued.
Attached to this advert is our candidates guide to values-based recruitment and supporting guidance on how to make a successful application.
If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Recruitment Team or see the attached candidate guide to reasonable adjustments.
Working for our organisation
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.
We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.
Applicants should be aware that any individual requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only (this does not include Healthcare Support Workers). This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· Provide and receive complex or sensitive information, such as apprentice performance reports, diversity data, apprenticeship funding rules.
· Develop excellent working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including apprentices, learning providers, system partners, and managers, to facilitate delivery of the Apprenticeship and Widening Participation Strategy objectives.
· To provide apprenticeship and widening participation advice, information, guidance and advocacy to colleagues at all levels as required.
· Responsible for the quality assurance of the apprenticeship and employability provision in terms of success, retention and progression.
· Planning, organisation and co-ordination of a range of apprenticeship and employability projects with a range of internal and external stakeholders. This includes (but is not limited to) National Apprenticeship Week, Annual Apprenticeship Celebration event, Functional Skills, vocational placements and employability programmes.
· Create and maintain information sources (guides, intranet etc) regarding apprenticeships and employability initiatives.
· Responsible for maintenance of the apprenticeship monitoring systems. E.g. Conveya, Digital Apprenticeship Service.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.
So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the Candidate Guide to Values Based Recruitment. This document provides you with information to help you apply.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Educated to degree level, or equivalent experience
Skills
* Able to lead organisation wide projects and work streams, working with internal and external stakeholders to deliver agreed objectives
* Well-developed IT skills; Demonstrable experience of using computer packages (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint) to deliver reports, analyse data and present information.
Experience
* Experience of project planning and translating strategy into action.
Applications are welcomed from candidates who wish to apply for a position based on a smarter (Hybrid) or flexible working arrangement – please contact the Recruitment Team if you have any queries regarding this in terms of your initial application. Where candidates are successful at interview, flexible working arrangement requests will be taken into consideration and may be accommodated where the needs of the service allow.
Fixed Term Contracts for existing NHS Employees – temporary contracts for employees of LYPFT, or colleagues joining from another NHS Trust, will be offered on a secondment basis wherever possible. In the event this is not possible, an FTC would be issued and this would require a break in service of two weeks.
The purpose of a temporary role could be for maternity cover, temporary funding or some other reason. At the end of which the need for the temporary work will cease. Temporary roles can stop, be extended and/or made permanent at any point during the period of work. Should the role become permanent then the post-holder will be informed of the process to be followed to convert the position to a permanent one.
Please note that from 1st July 2018, all new employees are required to subscribe to the DBS Update Service, DBS checks for volunteers remain free of charge.
Patient Safety is a priority at LYPFT with a focus on system-based improvement and creating opportunities for learning. We will ensure compassionate engagement with all those involved in an incident and all incidents are met with a proportionate response. LYPFT is committed to upholding its’ statutory responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults and children. Please refer to job description for further information.
LYPFT is a member of the Disability Confident scheme and is committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.
As part of the Trust's commitment to its Gold Standard Armed Forces Covenant status, members of the Armed Forces Community are entitled to a guaranteed interview subject to meeting the role criteria.
We welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health needs.
Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if enough applications are received. It is in the candidate’s best interest to apply as soon as possible. In submitting an application form, you authorise Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed to the post.
In applying for a role please ensure that you only declare qualifications that are relevant to the role itself. We reserve the right to check all declared qualifications on an application form, whether they are directly relevant to the role or not.
If you have not received any communication from us within four weeks you are asked to assume that your application has been unsuccessful. If you should have any queries regarding progress with your application form please contact us.
Please note: The Trust does not offer reimbursement of interview expenses.
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