Main area Additional Clinical Services Grade Apprenticeships: Apprenticeship Contract 15 months (Fixed Term) Hours
* Full time
* Part time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Part time or Full time) Job ref 319-6926948JN
Site Cobalt Business Park (Trust Wide) Town North Shields Salary £11.44 per hour Salary period Hourly Closing 19/02/2025 23:59
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). You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, and some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. 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. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes.
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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 be offered all relevant in-house courses.
Successful applicants can develop their careers through this funded training programme. Staff new to the Trust will be employed on an apprentice contract 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.
If successful in being offered the apprenticeship you will be required to provide evidence of 5 GCSE`s Certificates level A - E 9-2 (including
Maths and English)
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. 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? 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.
(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
* 5 GCSE`s level A - E 9-2 (including Maths and English)
Experience
* Demonstrate a caring attitude
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application!
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Name Dawn Waugh Job title Health Apprenticeship Programme Coordinator Email address Dawn.Waugh@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk Telephone number 01912031415
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