Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Healthcare Support Worker Apprenticeship (Level 3)

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Job summary

An Apprenticeship Education Programme is an integrated work based training and development programme, an excellent springboard to start your NHS career while gaining knowledge and competencies leading to a nationally accredited apprenticeship qualification and possible future career progression.

We are looking for enthusiastic people with a professional attitude, excellent communication skills, positive work ethic and good interpersonal skills. You will require willingness to work as a team, demonstrate motivation, be willing to learn and have the minimum required education.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for enthusiastic people with a professional attitude, excellent communication skills, positive work ethic and good interpersonal skills. You will require willingness to work as a team, demonstrate motivation, be willing to learn and have the minimum required education.

  • To gain relevant work based learning within a Healthcare setting.
  • To support and assist in the provision of a healthcare service to the designated department/ward team. This will include direct and in-direct patient care under the supervision of a healthcare practitioner.
  • Become prepared and knowledgeable within the working environment and work towards gaining a Level 3 Senior Healthcare Support Worker Apprenticeship.

About us

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, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. 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?

You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true?

Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!

Details

Date posted

06 November 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£22,383 a year pro rata per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

21 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

319-5707310HD-A

Job locations

Northumbria House

7/8 Silver Fox Way

Wallsend

NE27 0QJ


Job description

Job responsibilities

  • Help registered practitioners deliver healthcare services to people.
  • Carry out a range of clinical and non-clinical healthcare or therapeutic tasks, under the direct or indirect supervision of registered healthcare practitioners.
  • Provide high quality, compassionate healthcare, following standards, policies or protocols and always acting within the limits of your competence and needs of the department.
  • After a period of learning within a healthcare environment you will work toward the on-programme requirements of the Senior Healthcare Support Worker Apprenticeship Standard.
  • To maintain high clinical standards in line with the Code of Conduct for Healthcare Support Workers.
  • To help maintain a clean and safe ward environment.

Job description

Job responsibilities

  • Help registered practitioners deliver healthcare services to people.
  • Carry out a range of clinical and non-clinical healthcare or therapeutic tasks, under the direct or indirect supervision of registered healthcare practitioners.
  • Provide high quality, compassionate healthcare, following standards, policies or protocols and always acting within the limits of your competence and needs of the department.
  • After a period of learning within a healthcare environment you will work toward the on-programme requirements of the Senior Healthcare Support Worker Apprenticeship Standard.
  • To maintain high clinical standards in line with the Code of Conduct for Healthcare Support Workers.
  • To help maintain a clean and safe ward environment.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Minimum of 5 GCSE's grade A-C (9-3) must include English and Maths
  • Minimum 6 months care experience

Desirable

  • A level education
  • Care Certificate
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Minimum of 5 GCSE's grade A-C (9-3) must include English and Maths
  • Minimum 6 months care experience

Desirable

  • A level education
  • Care Certificate

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Northumbria House

7/8 Silver Fox Way

Wallsend

NE27 0QJ


Employer's website

https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Northumbria House

7/8 Silver Fox Way

Wallsend

NE27 0QJ


Employer's website

https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Apprenticeship Programme Lead

Michelle Archer

michelle.archer@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk

07812390385

Details

Date posted

06 November 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£22,383 a year pro rata per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

21 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

319-5707310HD-A

Job locations

Northumbria House

7/8 Silver Fox Way

Wallsend

NE27 0QJ


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