Are you passionate about creating opportunities, inspiring people, and helping individuals take their first steps into rewarding NHS careers?

We're looking for an enthusiastic, proactive and people-focused individual to join our Apprenticeship and Employability Team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering apprenticeship, work experience and employability programmes that help people from all backgrounds access careers within the NHS.

You will be at the heart of our Talent for Care agenda, supporting the development of future NHS talent through apprenticeships, work experience placements, employability programmes and community engagement initiatives.

Working close with managers, schools, colleges, training providers and community partners, you will help create pathways into employment, support apprentices throughout their journey and champion opportunities that enable people to "Get In, Get On and Get Further" within the NHS.

No two days are the same. One day you could be organising a careers event for local students, the next supporting apprentices through challenges, coordinating work experience placements, delivering workshops, or helping managers identify new apprenticeship opportunities across the Trust.

Please be advised that sponsorship is not eligible for this post.

Closing Date: Please be advised that this job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.

Assist in delivering the Health Education England ‘Talent for Care’ strategy and supporting widening participation across the Trust, through leading the implementation of Apprenticeships, Work Experience and employability programmes.

Responsible for the coordination of own area of work i.e. work experience, apprenticeships or employability but support within other areas when needed.

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.

We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.

Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.

We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway to Excellence® designated organisation – please click the link for further details about this prestigious award. Pathway To Excellence ® - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire (uhcw.nhs.uk)

By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.

The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.

Act as the first point of contact for dealing with enquiries; provide guidance with regards to Apprenticeships, work experience, employability, development opportunities and all other learning and development activities. Take action as necessary and liaise with colleagues where required. Dealing with non routine queries, problem solving and developing alternative solutions related to these topics.

Support the Widening participation manager in establishing Traineeship Programmes to the Trust to promote the health service as a career option to young people, and providing a pipeline of apprentice recruits for employers.

Deliver support sessions/workshops in relation to apprenticeships opportunities.

Maintain both manual and electronic filing systems and databases, as required by the department and Trust policies, ensuring all documents are accurately and appropriately archived.

Produce short reports and present recommendations and possible solutions

Provide basic career advice on how to ‘get in’, and ‘get on’ and ‘get further’ into the NHS and describe the variety of career pathways to existing staff and members of the public.

Support in maintaining partnerships with partner organisations i.e., Local School and Further Education Providers, and support creating an annual programme of opportunities to widen participation and provide a ‘taster’ for people into the NHS through employability programmes.

Assist with developing and delivering a directory of methods for staff to improve their functional skills, including IT.

Continuously review Standard Operating Procedures for their role and share as appropriate. Ensure the intranet is kept up to date for own area of work.

Support the widening participation manager in recruiting Health Ambassadors to train and work in partnership to support events which inspire young people to consider employment opportunities at UHCW.

Attend and advise at events, workshops, and training sessions as necessary to promote working in the NHS.

Communicate and promote the Apprenticeship Strategy to UHCW staff and encourage staff to learn as they work

To help maintain a relationship with Training providers for apprenticeship frameworks

To be welcoming, positive and engaging; providing clear and concise advice to people who are looking into a career within the NHS

Help to develop the expansion of apprenticeships across the Trust, raising the profile and promotion of apprenticeships.

Assist in organising and delivering an annual programme of work experience and apprenticeship programmes.

Assist in identifying new vacancies and persuade Trust managers to recruit an apprentice.

Assist to make clear logical persuasive and considered arguments to a variety of audiences some of whom may be resistant to change

Provide pastoral support to newly recruited apprentices from interview date and throughout their apprenticeships.

Required to manage difficult conversations

Support all apprentices to complete all statutory and mandatory Trust training including induction

Ensure the quality of the apprenticeship provision in terms of success, retention and progression and the development and extension of apprenticeship programmes.

Liaise and build relationships with apprenticeship providers.

Conduct post-learning evaluation to understand successes and improvement.

Collate information in preparation for an evaluation to be undertaken to establish the impact of the placement.

To assist in facilitating employability programmes, including developing and delivering training.

Assist the team to increase the number of internal employability placements as a recruitment tool for all staff vacancies.

Evaluation of employability programmes

Work with the widening participation manager and stakeholders to evaluate current offering and develop an offering which ensures work experience is fit for purpose

Ensure a robust recruitment and induction process for work experience candidates

Administer and coordinate work experience placements across the Trust, ensuring the quality of placements by conducting regular evaluation

Coordinate and facilitate role specific taster days and taster weeks.

For further details of the role please see the attached job description.