Apprenticeships and Careers Coordinator, Band 5

Are you passionate about engaging and promoting Apprenticeships and Career pathways within the NHS?

We are looking for an Apprenticeships and Careers Coordinator to help to attract and develop a workforce with the skills, knowledge and competence necessary to deliver safe patient care, and to enhance the quality of service delivery in line with our Trust vision of 'Best Care for Everyone' and our 'Journey to Outstanding'.

To succeed in this role, you'll need to have excellent communication and organisational skills, be able to work well under pressure and multi-task under tight deadlines. Experience in apprenticeships, teaching or working with young people is essential in this position. You will be part of an expanding Apprenticeships and Careers team with a positive attitude for attracting people into NHS professions.

This would also be suitable for a secondment opportunity

**Interview date**: Friday 6th October
- Organisational, multi-tasking skills and administrative abilities, including report writing skills.
- Passion for creating a workforce fit for the future
- Team player - being flexible and adaptive, demonstrating ability to work confidently in a rapidly changing environment
- Solution orientated, demonstrate ability to problem solve efficiently and to produce creative and practical solutions
- Ability to work under pressure
- Knowledge of Apprenticeship Standards and their delivery
- Ability to engage effectively with a wide range of Healthcare Professionals at all levels
- Awareness of work experience and youth career engagement
- Experience in mentoring and supporting others
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written skills; including the ability to communicate sensitively and overcome barriers to understanding, showing empathy and reassurance
- The ability to understand and contribute to the development of training materials, course content
- The ability to review and edit quantitative and qualitative data presented within an Excel spreadsheet
- The ability to produce presentations and other promotional / information materials

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the largest employer in the county and with over 8,000 staff, we are one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK. We offer a generous annual leave allowance, excellent bank rates, access to the excellent NHS Pension Scheme, discounts for local shops, restaurants and services, access to our health and well-being hub, access to our two on-site nurseries, flexible working options, discounted public transport, reward and recognition schemes, exercise and activity classes and membership to our popular hospital choir.

**Roles and responsibilities**:

- Work collaboratively and co-operatively with others to fulfil apprenticeship strategy and by increasing awareness and engagement of staff at all levels maximise enrolments of recruited and existing staff to apprenticeship programmes. This will include apprentice roles in: Clinical Healthcare, Allied Healthcare Professions, Healthcare Scientists and non-clinical roles within and outside of career pathways at levels 2-7
- To understand and be able to articulate to others potential career pathways; participating in career clinics, engagement and other events to meet and explain to staff
- Ensure learning and development opportunities (including traineeships, apprenticeships, T Levels, functional skills and other learning provision) are promoted, made more accessible and staff engagement is encouraged
- Undertake a range of promotional activities (eg key promotional weeks/events, development of literature, flyers use of intranet, taster sessions, bulletins etc) attend departmental meetings throughout our Trust promoting NHS careers and awareness of work based learning opportunities
- Work with Heads of Department and Heads of Profession to develop a more flexible workforce based on staff competences to improve patient care or support functions and where appropriate
- Provide advice and guidance regarding recruitment, contracting, capability/ performance/ disciplinary and sickness monitoring to department managers and mentors signposting for engagement with formal HR process where appropriate
- To be conversant with Apprenticeship funding: rules and guidance for employers and aware of apprenticeship standard development (trailblazers) and apprenticeship standards reviews and considerate of the opportunities these offer to GHNHSFT existing and recruited staff
- Participate in procurement tendering activities both internally and with integrated care system colleagues to engage External Training, Further Education and Higher Education providers to deliver apprenticeship programmes
- Work in partnership with External Training, Further Education and Higher Education providers to plan and implement programmes of learning which meet Trust and staff needs
- Assist with the organisation of gateway and End Point Assessments
- If required attend apprentice or contract review meetings with E