Apprentice Health Care Support Worker Ipswich, England
Job description
We are launching our new Apprenticeship HCSW Academy which will provide employment opportunities across all areas of the Trust for people wanting to enter into Healthcare Professions.
These roles are available for those with or without significant prior experience and will open up career pathways into nursing and/or allied health professions such as Physiotherapy or Speech and Language, as well as routes into theatres or other specialist areas.
You will join the Trust as Health Care Support Workers providing personal care to patients.
This opportunity is open for those with or without experience, with the offer of either a Level 2 Healthcare Support Worker Apprenticeship or a Level 3 Senior Healthcare Support Worker Apprenticeship, depending upon experience and prior qualifications.
The programme will include an initial period of 8 weeks in a classroom based environment, with work placements on ward areas to support the development of skills. The topics to be taught will include communication, basic life support, health and safety, equality and diversity, duty of care to name a few.
The Academy will start week commencing 4thSeptember at both our Colchester and Ipswich sites, and will include some roles working within our Community services. Applicants must be able to meet and provide the following:
- Attend an Assessment Day at Colchester General Hospital on 3rdJuly or at Suffolk New College, Ipswich on 6thJuly
- Commit to a start date of 4thSeptember 2023 (we would not encourage annual leave within the first 8 weeks)
- Meet the eligibility criteria of: • Ordinarily resident in the UK or a European Economic Area for the last 3 years
- Have residency status and/or a visa that allows you to work
- Meet pre employment requirements including ability to provide references to cover the last three years/satisfactory DBS check and Occupational Health requirement
One of the largest Trust’s in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.
Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.
To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.
Find out about living and working with us -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
