NHS
Healthcare Support Worker Apprentice
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Job Description
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- Earn a salary while studying
- Gain job specific skills, knowledge and behaviours
- Study towards a related qualification including literacy and numeracy (if required)
- Have regular pastoral support and personal development reviews
- Are employed on a 15 month fixed term contract
- Enjoy benefits such as paid annual leave, comprehensive mandatory training, protected time for your studies and NHS discounts
- 5 GCSE`s level A - E 9-2 (including Maths and English)
- Demonstrate a caring attitude
- 5 GCSE`s level A - E 9-2 (including Maths and English)
- Demonstrate a caring attitude
Job summary
Exciting opportunities have arisen for Health Care Support Worker Level 2 Apprenticeship at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; the posts are available are working within an NHS Healthcare environment while completing a Level 2 Apprenticeship qualification (15 months).
We are looking for enthusiastic people with a professional attitude, excellent communication skills, positive work ethic and good interpersonal skills.
Your apprenticeship will include the Care Certificate; in addition you will offer you all relevant in-house courses.
Successful applicants can develop their careers through this funded training programme. Staff new to the Trust will be employed as an apprentice contract so that they have an opportunity to 'earn while they learn'. Rotation opportunities are available in all NHS clinical areas including surgery, medicine, theatres, Physio and community care, placements available trust wide.
If successful in being offered the apprenticeship you will be required to provide evidence of GCSES Maths and English Certificates level A - E 9-2.
Main duties of the job
Our apprenticeships offer:
Healthcare Support Workers who complete the programme and demonstrate our Trust behaviours and values will be eligible to apply for a permanent post within the Trust. Where their qualifications meet the requirements for the post, and will be guaranteed an interview.
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! Please read applicant guidance notes before submitting your application.
Details
Date posted
09 July 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£12.21 an hour per hour
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
15 months
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number
319-7311113JN
Job locations
Cobalt Business Park (Trust Wide Sites)
7/8 Silver Fox Way
North Shields
NE27 0QJ
Job descriptionJob description
Job responsibilities
To work under the supervision of the practitioner and staff members in the delivery of high quality care.
To provide assistance and support to a broad spectrum of service users, and the multi-disciplinary team.
Assist with daily workload within a department.
To gain relevant work based learning within a Healthcare environment.
Become prepared and knowledgeable within the working environment and work towards gaining a Level 2 Apprenticeship in Healthcare support worker.
Upon successful completion further NHS apprenticeships are available, Level 3 equivalent to 2 A levels, Level 5 equivalent to an Undergraduate Degree, Level 6 equivalent to a Degree and Level 7 is equivalent to a Masters!
(This post is strictly subject to satisfactory completion of the Care Certificate Programme which must be completed in the first 12 weeks of commencement of post).
Job responsibilities
To work under the supervision of the practitioner and staff members in the delivery of high quality care.
To provide assistance and support to a broad spectrum of service users, and the multi-disciplinary team.
Assist with daily workload within a department.
To gain relevant work based learning within a Healthcare environment.
Become prepared and knowledgeable within the working environment and work towards gaining a Level 2 Apprenticeship in Healthcare support worker.
Upon successful completion further NHS apprenticeships are available, Level 3 equivalent to 2 A levels, Level 5 equivalent to an Undergraduate Degree, Level 6 equivalent to a Degree and Level 7 is equivalent to a Masters!
(This post is strictly subject to satisfactory completion of the Care Certificate Programme which must be completed in the first 12 weeks of commencement of post).
Person SpecificationPerson Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Desirable
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Desirable
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.
Employer details
Employer name
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Cobalt Business Park (Trust Wide Sites)
7/8 Silver Fox Way
North Shields
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
Cobalt Business Park (Trust Wide Sites)
7/8 Silver Fox Way
North Shields
NE27 0QJ
Employer's website
https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.
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