Registered Nurse Degree Apprentice

Job summary

Are you looking for a new challenge and want to make a direct difference to patients, carers and staff every day? If you are, then this is an exciting time to join our services, which have a strong reputation for innovation and as such you will support us to shape our services.

The Registered Nurse Degree Apprenticeship is an exciting opportunity to train to become a Nurse, while employed by the Trust who will support you in your Nursing Degree with Wolverhampton University.

You must:

• Be a minimum of 18 years old
• Hold the entry requirements, at the point of application: BNurs (Hons) Nursing Degree Apprenticeship - University of Wolverhampton (wlv.ac.uk)
• Be able to provide evidence of your entry requirements in original certificates

Main duties of the job

The Apprentice Registered Nurse course is a three year education programme, working towards becoming a Registered Nurse (Mental Health) with a BSc Hons degree. The course combines work-based and academic learning between The Employer/Trust and a Higher Education Institute (HEI) approved to deliver Nursing and Midwifery Council approved programmes, and is also a Registered Apprenticeship Training Provider.

As an Apprentice Registered Nurse you will be based, as a paid employee, with Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Whilst you will be allocated to one specific area, you will experience working across both internal and external placements to gain an appreciation of the different areas of local healthcare service and meet the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) requirements.

About us

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health, learning disability, and community healthcare services for the population of the Black Country.

Across the whole of the region we provide:

• Adult and older adult mental health services
• Specialist learning disability services
• CAMHS

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was formed on 1 April 2020, after NHS England and NHS Improvement approved the merger of Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.

Combining resources, strategies and talented workforce enables us to deliver a wider variety of outstanding services that are based on best practice and are continually improving.

We currently employ over 3,000 members of staff and just like the population we serve, we are made up of diverse cultures and backgrounds