Job summary
Fantastic opportunity to train as a Registered Mental Health Nurse - earn while you learn!!
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is a well-established, forward thinking organization with a real vision for making a positive difference to people in our care, and support for its staff.
We are delighted to offer for the fourth year running the opportunity to undertake a degree level apprenticeship to become a fully registered Mental Health nurse though the University of Lincoln.
This is an exciting opportunity to start your career in mental health through a 3 year degree apprenticeship programme. You will learn new skills, study a BSc mental health nursing degree and develop as an individual, all whilst earning a salary of £16,500 - £20.377 per annum for 3 years. If you've recently studied A levels or degrees in psychology or health and social and are considering how you can start your career, then maybe mental health nursing is the pathway for you to follow.
During your apprenticeship, you will have the opportunity to experience placements within Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Trust and the wider Lincolnshire health and social care system. The trust provides mental health, learning disabilities and autism services across the whole of the county of Lincolnshire and therefore placements may be at any geographical area of the county. Successful applicants will be required to travel independently around to county to fulfil these placements.
Main duties of the job
The role will require theoretical study at degree level, with attendance though the University of Lincoln. As an apprentice, it means you will be employed on a permanent contract, but to remain employed, you will successfully complete the nursing degree apprenticeship. On completion of the course, you will be a registered mental health nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council and will be offered a registered nurse position within the Trust.
The trust particularly welcomes applications from residents in the East and South East of the county. Placements will include a range of service serving patients through the whole age range from adolescent to older age.
Joint interviews will be between the University of Lincoln and the Trust via teams. If successful, the aim is for you to commence your role in December 2023, gain experience in the area and start your apprenticeship in January 2024.
This is an exciting and unmissable opportunity to gain your degree and become a fully qualified mental health nurse with no tuition fees to pay, and a set wage throughout. Over the duration of the 3 year degree course you will be supported by your line manager, university tutors and other Trust staff including the Clinical Lead for Nurse Apprenticeships.
About us
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To be eligible to apply for this degree apprenticeship, you must meet the criteria set by the Open University These are:
Registered Mental health Nurse Apprenticeship entry requirements:
- Aged over 18 years of age at the start of the course (January 2024)
- Evidence of achievement of Literacy at Functional Skills Level 2 or equivalent e.g. GCSE Grade C/4 or above in English, when applying to the programme.
- Evidence of achievement of Numeracy at Functional Skills Level 2 or equivalent e.g. GCSE Grade C/4 or above in maths, when applying to the programme.
- 96 UCAS points, which could be
- 3 A levels CCC
- International Baccalaureate: 27 points overall.
- BTEC Extended Diploma: Merit, Merit, Merit.
- Access to Higher Education Diploma: 45 Level 3 credits with a minimum of 96 UCAS Tariff points.
- If your qualifications have been achieved outside of the UK a comparability statement will be required to assess equivalences Statement of Comparability (enic.org.uk)
- Lived in the UK for over 3 years.
- Satisfactory disclosure and barring service checks (enhanced checks).
- Good health and character evidenced through occupational health clearance and a reference from current employer.
- Demonstrate the values and personal qualities necessary for nursing throughout the recruitment and selection process, including during interview.
You must also be able to demonstrate the Trusts values and be willing to work by them at all times. At the heart of everything we do is our patients and compassionate, caring and kind approach to your work will be key to your successful apprenticeship.
You are expected to remain employed by the trust for a minimum of 3 years post qualification. There will be a financial repayment within these 3 years. We hope that you choose to remain with LPFT for many, many years as we strive to be the best employer in the county and work hard to create an enjoyable working environment with many benefits including:
- Early access to our staff wellbeing service
- Excellent working environment (Well led by CQC 2021)
- Free car parking
- NHS Pension
- Lease car scheme
- Salary sacrifice white goods, cycle to work
- Childcare vouchers, cycle to work scheme
LPFT employs over 2500 staff in a variety of roles and are proud that in the past two years we have been rated by our own staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England; achieving the best mental health and learning disability trust nationally in the 2021 staff survey. We firmly believe that the key to high quality patient care is a contented workforce and this is reflected in the Care Quality Commission rating us as outstanding for well led and good overall.
As a Trust we believe that having a diverse workforce and allowing people to be themselves is essential to good employment, we are openly supportive and encourage difference. We have three active staff network groups for Black Asian Minority Ethnics (BAME), Lesbian Gay Bi-Sexual Transgender (LGBT+) and staff with Mental and Physical Lived Experience (MAPLE). This has resulted in annual staff conferences and some great national accolades, such as, the Trust being included in the Top 100 organisations in the country within the Stonewall Index.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To be eligible to apply for this degree apprenticeship, you must meet the criteria set by the Open University These are:
Registered Mental health Nurse Apprenticeship entry requirements:
- Aged over 18 years of age at the start of the course (January 2024)
- Evidence of achievement of Literacy at Functional Skills Level 2 or equivalent e.g. GCSE Grade C/4 or above in English, when applying to the programme.
- Evidence of achievement of Numeracy at Functional Skills Level 2 or equivalent e.g. GCSE Grade C/4 or above in maths, when applying to the programme.
- 96 UCAS points, which could be
- 3 A levels CCC
- International Baccalaureate: 27 points overall.
- BTEC Extended Diploma: Merit, Merit, Merit.
- Access to Higher Education Diploma: 45 Level 3 credits with a minimum of 96 UCAS Tariff points.
- If your qualifications have been achieved outside of the UK a comparability statement will be required to assess equivalences Statement of Comparability (enic.org.uk)
- Lived in the UK for over 3 years.
- Satisfactory disclosure and barring service checks (enhanced checks).
- Good health and character evidenced through occupational health clearance and a reference from current employer.
- Demonstrate the values and personal qualities necessary for nursing throughout the recruitment and selection process, including during interview.
You must also be able to demonstrate the Trusts values and be willing to work by them at all times. At the heart of everything we do is our patients and compassionate, caring and kind approach to your work will be key to your successful apprenticeship.
You are expected to remain employed by the trust for a minimum of 3 years post qualification. There will be a financial repayment within these 3 years. We hope that you choose to remain with LPFT for many, many years as we strive to be the best employer in the county and work hard to create an enjoyable working environment with many benefits including:
- Early access to our staff wellbeing service
- Excellent working environment (Well led by CQC 2021)
- Free car parking
- NHS Pension
- Lease car scheme
- Salary sacrifice white goods, cycle to work
- Childcare vouchers, cycle to work scheme
LPFT employs over 2500 staff in a variety of roles and are proud that in the past two years we have been rated by our own staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England; achieving the best mental health and learning disability trust nationally in the 2021 staff survey. We firmly believe that the key to high quality patient care is a contented workforce and this is reflected in the Care Quality Commission rating us as outstanding for well led and good overall.
As a Trust we believe that having a diverse workforce and allowing people to be themselves is essential to good employment, we are openly supportive and encourage difference. We have three active staff network groups for Black Asian Minority Ethnics (BAME), Lesbian Gay Bi-Sexual Transgender (LGBT+) and staff with Mental and Physical Lived Experience (MAPLE). This has resulted in annual staff conferences and some great national accolades, such as, the Trust being included in the Top 100 organisations in the country within the Stonewall Index.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A - Levels: BBC
- Or, International Baccalaureate: 29 Points overall
- Or, BTEC Extended Diploma: Distinction, Distinction, Merit
- Or, Access to Higher Education Diploma: 45 Level 3 credits with a minimum of 112 UCAS Tariff points
- Applicants will also need at least three GCSEs Grade 6-9 (A-C) including Maths, English and Science, or equivalent qualifications, such as Functional Skills Level 2.
Desirable
- Evidence of recent academic learning
Experience
Essential
- A desire to work within a health / care setting
Desirable
- Understanding of evidence based practice
- Knowledge of contemporary health and social care issues, and the nature of nursing in a public health context.
- Experience of working in a health or care setting
Skills
Essential
- Insight into how to evaluate own strengths and development needs, seeking advice where appropriate
- Evidence of time management skills and ability to prioritise
- Intermediate IT skills
- Ability to communicate with members of the public and health and care providers
- Courteous, respectful and helpful at all times
- Ability to deal with non-routine and unpredictable nature of the workload and individual patient contact
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Ability to take part in reflective practice and clinical supervision activities
- Knowledge of when to seek advice and refer to a registered care professional
Special Requirements
Essential
- Ability to move between sites working across health and social care as required by the needs of the development programme
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A - Levels: BBC
- Or, International Baccalaureate: 29 Points overall
- Or, BTEC Extended Diploma: Distinction, Distinction, Merit
- Or, Access to Higher Education Diploma: 45 Level 3 credits with a minimum of 112 UCAS Tariff points
- Applicants will also need at least three GCSEs Grade 6-9 (A-C) including Maths, English and Science, or equivalent qualifications, such as Functional Skills Level 2.
Desirable
- Evidence of recent academic learning
Experience
Essential
- A desire to work within a health / care setting
Desirable
- Understanding of evidence based practice
- Knowledge of contemporary health and social care issues, and the nature of nursing in a public health context.
- Experience of working in a health or care setting
Skills
Essential
- Insight into how to evaluate own strengths and development needs, seeking advice where appropriate
- Evidence of time management skills and ability to prioritise
- Intermediate IT skills
- Ability to communicate with members of the public and health and care providers
- Courteous, respectful and helpful at all times
- Ability to deal with non-routine and unpredictable nature of the workload and individual patient contact
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Ability to take part in reflective practice and clinical supervision activities
- Knowledge of when to seek advice and refer to a registered care professional
Special Requirements
Essential
- Ability to move between sites working across health and social care as required by the needs of the development programme
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
