Apprenticeship Coordinator

We have an opportunity for someone with a strong commitment to support the learning through apprenticeships of current and future staff at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust. As the Apprenticeship Coordinator you will play a critical role in promoting, supporting and facilitating staff through their apprenticeship journey, building knowledge of the process and of education providers to act as the primary resource for our interested learners.

This post is a Band 4 role and it comes with a high degree of autonomy to develop the apprenticeship coordination and support offer across a wide range of staff and education providers.

The post holder will work in a friendly team and will be based in a busy shared office within the department. You will need to be able to learn
quickly to follow complex systems and to become an efficient and effective member of the team, who can respond in an appropriate and timely
way. You will need to be calm when under pressure, to present a professional and friendly manner to all stakeholders you interact with.

Flexibility is essential to adapt to the competing demands and requests, as well as to cover for colleagues when required. Experience and competency of managing multiple systems and databases is essential.

The hours for this role are Monday - Friday, 37.5 hour week

The Apprenticeship Coordinator will work as part of the Education Department providing effective, professional and quality
administration support, enabling the department to fulfil its function to a high quality standard.
Your main role will be to be involved in all aspects of co-ordination of apprenticeships, apprenticeship programmes and the support required for
them.
Support will also be provided to the Head of Education and Apprenticeships and other senior members of the Education team. The post holder
will manage his/her own workload working however advice will be given as required.
Full details of roles and responsibilities can be found within the Job Description and person specification.

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

See the attached Job Description and Person specification which details key information about the role.

The job description itself may be amended from time to time in consultation with the post holder, within the scope and general level of responsibility attached to the post.

All post holders must take responsibility to ensure that they are aware of and adhere to all Trust policies, procedures and guidelines relating to their employment regardless of their position within the Trust.