Career Development & Apprenticeship Practitioner

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Calow; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Career Development & Apprenticeship Practitioner to deliver and evaluate the Care Certificate and career apprenticeship programmes, while supporting level 2 and 3 healthcare apprenticeships. You will teach, assess in practice and mark work to apprenticeship standards, and provide pastoral support to learners.

The role requires a foundation degree in health or equivalent teaching qualification, experience in hospital education or

Qualifications

• Foundation degree in health or equivalent teaching qualification.
• Experience in hospital education or mentorship/supervisory role.
• Familiar with Care Certificate induction and standards.
• Ability to teach, assess in practice and mark work to apprenticeship standards.
• TAQA qualification would be essential.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and evaluate Care Certificate and Apprenticeship programmes.
• Teach and assess level 2 and 3 healthcare apprenticeships.
• Plan lessons and create PowerPoint presentations for teaching.
• Provide pastoral support to learners and oversee work experience.
• Mentor and supervise practice-based learning and induction of new staff.

Skills

Teaching

Lesson planning

PowerPoint

Presentation

Education

Foundation degree in health

Teaching qualification

Tools

PowerPoint

Microsoft Office

Job description

To support the Career Development and Apprenticeship Team in the delivery and evaluation of the Care Certificate and Care Certificate Supervisor programmes to meet service priorities and quality standards. To deliver training on the level 2 and 3 healthcare apprenticeships. Being able to teach, assess in practice and mark work in line with apprenticeship standard requirements.

To support with work experience programmes and provide pastoral support to candidates in practice including T levels and BTech students., Here at Chesterfield Royal Hospital, we provide a full range of district general services, including 24-hour urgent and emergency care, specialist children's services, maternity and community midwifery to the population of North Derbyshire - around 400,000 local people. We also offer primary care services through nine GP surgeries in Chesterfield and Derbyshire. We work closely with partners across health and care as part of the Joined-Up Care Derbyshire system.

The Trust's Together as One Strategy and People Plan describe our organisational values and a pledge to support our people. We are above average in all themes of the NHS National Staff Survey.

A significant element of supporting our people includes compassionate and inclusive leadership. We know that people have a life outside of work, we offer a raft of support to care for your physical and mental wellbeing including a purpose-built Wellbeing Hub free of charge for staff which includes access to a 24/7 gym. We are easily accessible from the M1 and the A61 and the local train station is nearby.

Ours is a workplace in which you can proudly be yourself.

Career Development & Apprenticeship Practitioner

is an educational role within our organisation. Leading the Chesterfield Way supports the Trust's priorities and ambitions and sets out the behaviours and characteristics that leaders are expected to adopt and that all staff can role model, to make the Trust an even better place to work; and to support the delivery of exceptional patient care. It provides a framework for leadership and supports individual progression through appraisal, career progression and personal development. As a Career Development & Apprenticeship Practitioner you will use Leading the Chesterfield Way and its principles to:

• Inspire a shared sense of purpose - encouraging your team to take pride in what they do, improve the care and services they provide; and enable them to understand how they contribute to the success of the organisation
• Lead with care - showing colleagues compassion and care by listening - and offering empathy and understanding to help create a supportive workplace
• Evaluate and use information - be alert to what is happening around you; and evaluate the information you hear, receive or discover to take actions and decisions that improve both patient and staff experience
• Work with others to connect services - using the opportunity to link up with different colleagues, leaders and partners, building relationships that can help everyone to deliver effective and efficient healthcare and services
• Engage with your team - respecting every member of staff, valuing their diversity and making sure that every member of your team feels that their contribution is appreciated and valued
• Hold yourself and others to account - be clear about what's expected at work, giving honest feedback and acting quickly and fairly to support others who are struggling to meet expectations
• Develop capability - take opportunities to develop your own skills, take-up training and education that will help you in your role and keep up-to-date with the essential training that applies to you
• Influence what happens - by acting as an ambassador for the Trust, sharing good news and good practice with your team, contributing to debates, having a say and leading improvement - all ways of influencing what happens to our services in the future

The successful candidate will have up to date experience in a hospital setting delivering care. A foundation degree in health or equivalent teaching qualification is required.

They will have experience in delivering clinical education or have had a mentorship/ supervisory role in practice. They will be familiar with the Care Certificate induction and its standards and be able to teach new support staff on induction to the hospital, including resuscitation and vital signs.

Microsoft skills will be required to enable them to plan lessons and create PowerPoint presentations for teaching . Delivery of the level 2 and level 3 healthcare apprenticeship teaching and assessing will be part of this role so having the TAQA qualification would be essential.