Apprenticeships

Norfolk & Suffolk Transitional Workforce Group

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More than 850 NHS apprenticeships taken up across the county

More than 850 apprenticeships have been taken up in clinical and non-clinical roles throughout the county, since the Norfolk and Waveney NHS Apprenticeship Programme began three years ago.

Last year, NHS Norfolk and Waveney was ranked as a Top 100 Apprenticeship Employer 2011, as well as being awarded the Macro Employer of the Year Award in the East of England region for its Apprenticeship Programme.

Apprenticeships is a framework of qualifications that is available to all new and existing staff in bands 1 to 4 of the staffing structure, who are between the ages of 16 and 69.

Gabi Trojan, County Programme Manager for Norfolk and Suffolk Transitional Workforce Group at NHS Norfolk and Waveney, said: “We fully support apprenticeships, and view them as an excellent way for existing and new NHS employees to gain valuable qualifications’’.
“All frameworks are made up of the same four core elements: a diploma, a technical certificate, and key/functional skills in maths and English’’, she explained.

"There are three levels available, level 2, level 3 and level 4, and we are delighted that they have proved so popular among new and existing employees.”

Apprenticeships are available in the following skills: pharmacy, business administration, customer service, health, health and social care, information technology, accountancy, support services and horticulture.
There are also qualifications available in management and facilities management, and employees can study to become an Allied Health Professional.

Since the programme began in 2009, apprentices have secured substantive posts, as well as university places across the county.
This training has enabled NHS organisations to have better trained staff, greater staff morale and ultimately increase quality and efficiency of services for our patients.
There are also cost savings that have already been realised by most of the Trusts. For example one Trust’s QIPP project plan showed savings of almost £90,000 by converting 10 substantive posts into apprenticeships.

The NHS trusts involved in the Norfolk and Waveney NHS Apprenticeship Programme are:

NHS Norfolk and Waveney
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn
James Paget University Hospital, Gorleston
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust
East Coast Community Healthcare CIC

To find out more about apprenticeships in the NHS Norfolk and Waveney area, which as a model is split into three HUBs, West, East and Central please contact:

General enquiries: Boena Zeneli Tel: 01603 595808 boena.zeneli@norfolk.nhs.uk
West: Sharon Carter, Telephone: 01553 214885, email: sharon.carter@qehkl.nhs.uk
Central: Annie Cook, Telephone: 01603 286231, email: annie.cook@nnuh.nhs.uk
East: Jill Elsworthy, 01493 453070, jill.elsworthy@nhs.net

For more information about Apprenticeships and the National Apprenticeship Week which is organised by the National Apprenticeship Service from 6 to 10 February 2012 visit: www.apprenticeships.org.uk.

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