New Apprenticeship offers work across Health and Social Care in Norfolk and Suffolk
For the first time ever, the NHS and Social Care in the east of England have come together to offer apprentices the chance to work across both health and social care within the same programme.
For the first time ever, the NHS and Social Care in the east of England have come together to offer apprentices the chance to work across both health and social care within the same programme.
Employers are coming together across Norfolk and Suffolk to form partnerships offering unique Apprenticeship training opportunities for people who would like to work in a health and social care setting. Health Education East of England (HEEoE) is working with employers to create Integrated Apprenticeships across Health and Social Care.
These training posts will enable the apprentice to undertake a qualification which will provide the individuals with valuable work placements with more than one organisation across health and social care settings – these could include hospitals and community care.
Ross Collett, Head of HEEoE Norfolk and Suffolk Workforce Partnership, said: “The aim of this new approach is to develop a highly trained workforce that understands patients’ needs across both health and social care services. We have also built the new, transferrable Care Certificate into the programme to give our apprentices the best possible start to their careers.”
Apprenticeship Week sees the start of the first programme for seven Young Apprentices commencing in Norwich on Thursday 12 March, with an induction at the Kings Centre Norwich followed by enrolment at City College Norwich on Friday 13 March.
This programme is a joint initiative between HEEoE, the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Norfolk County Council and Norfolk and Suffolk Care Support. In this pilot programme, the Young Apprentices involved will work for six months in an acute hospital setting and six months in community care.
As this new health and social care initiative develops there will be more opportunities opening up across Norfolk and Suffolk for apprentices to join similar programmes.
All apprenticeship opportunities within the health sector are advertised within NHS Jobs: www.jobs.nhs.uk
“We are training the workforce for the future to have the skills and knowledge to work in both health and social care.”
NOTES TO EDITORS
The first induction for NNUH will be taking place at the Kings Centre on THURSDAY 12TH MARCH. Two apprentices will be available to interview, please call Emma Jones on 01603 289821 to arrange.
• The Norfolk and Suffolk Workforce Partnership is a local delivery partnership of Health Education East of England (HEEoE). Its advisory board is made up of local NHS Trusts, Clinical Commissioning Groups, University of East Anglia, University Campus Suffolk and Norfolk and Suffolk County Councils.
• Health Education East of England (HEEoE) is the Local Education and Training Board that ensures the workforce supply to the NHS and delivers high quality education, training and development. For more information visit https://eoe.hee.nhs.uk/
• Health Education East of England is part of Health Education England, responsible for the commissioning, provision and quality management of education and training, strategy and workforce planning, leadership development and workforce transformation. Our sole aim is to improve the quality of health and healthcare.
The region comprises Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Luton, Norfolk, Suffolk and Peterborough. More than 170,000 healthcare staff are employed in public and private sector organisations in this geographical area serving a population of approximately 5.8m.