Associate Director of Apprenticeships

Job summary

Do you have a passion for education and career progression and want to work with an organisation with a 'Good' Ofsted inspection for their apprenticeship programme?

Hampshire Hospitals have a unique and exciting opportunity for an Associate Director of Apprenticeship to join our team. As a Trust we deliver over 300 apprentices at any one time for our employees, enhancing there learning and development.

This role is responsible for providing strategic operations, training and business leadership for HHFT's Apprenticeship provision including management of the £1 million levy investment; HHFT as in-house Training Provider of apprenticeships; facilitates placements through LDDA Assisted Internships programme (Project Choice); enabling it to support Hampshire Hospitals to deliver its vision: 'to provide outstanding care to all of our patients'.

Main duties of the job

This post is responsible for, the delivery of the Trust's Apprenticeship Strategy and workforce plan through the development, design and delivery of high-quality in-house apprenticeships, to provide a range of career pathways to attract and retain our current and future workforce supply.

Responsible for scanning the horizon for potential business opportunities, identifying potential areas of growth and development, and coordinating and preparing bids for new business. This will require sharp analytical and strategic financial skills, as well as strong links into the Divisions, clinical and corporate services. The post holder will use internal and external data sources to develop intelligence and to spot opportunities for future development, raising these through the Director of People and the Trust.

The AD for Apprenticeships will be motivated to increase growth and enhance the Trust's reputation as both a training provider of outstanding services, and as an excellent partner. The post holder will foster and maintain close working relationships with the range of key commissioners, as well as key corporate and business functions in related Trusts or partnership organisations.

About us

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.