Healthcare Assistant Apprentice

Healthcare Assistant Apprentice

Band 2 Agenda for change working towards Band 3 on completion of apprenticeship

Main area Learning Disability Grade Band 2 Agenda for change working towards Band 3 on completion of apprenticeship Contract Permanent: Apprenticeship Hours

• Full time
• Part time

37.5 hours per week (To include days and nights) Job ref 338-7341720-25

Employer Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Granville Court Town Hornsea Salary £24,465 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 30/10/2025 23:59

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019

Job overview

Please note that this advertised vacancy does not meet the UKVI eligibility requirements for a Skilled Worker Visa and therefore HTFT would not be able to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.

Would you like to be part of the journey of this very unique service within the organisation.

The home is undertaking significant works in Hornsea and we are moving temporarily to Beverly to facilitate these works.

This is an exciting and rare opportunity has arisen for anyone wishing to develop there clinical shills and knowledge whist working within a unique service within the organisation portfolio.

Granville Court provides a home for people with a profound and multiple learning disability and associated complex healthcare needs.

We are looking for 1.8 inspiring people to join our team to enhance the lives of people with a profound and multiple learning disability.

The NHS Humber Teaching Trust is looking to recruit an Apprentice Healthcare Worker role.

As a Trust, we see the value in supporting the development and progression of our people through apprenticeship pathways, combining vocational learning with on-the-job experience whilst you work closely with your new team to gain the essential skills, knowledge and behaviours for this new role. The duration of this apprenticeship will be 15-18 months and on successful completion you will progress into a Band 3 Healthcare Worker role.

Main duties of the job

You will be working as part of a multi- disciplinary team alongside both learning disability and adult nurse to enable residents to live a life well lived and loved. Supporting with the nurse a large team of caring and compassionate care workers.

You will be supported through both the apprenticeship scheme and bespoke induction to develop the unique skills required for a Healthcare assistant within the home and you will be given time to undertake this level of training required.

As part of the clinical support at the home the hours are 07:00 to 19:30 and 19:30 to 07:00 with an expectation that you are able to available to work both shift patterns, flexible working will be considered to meet the need of the home.

You will also be joining us at an exciting time for the home as we will be temporarily moving to Hawthorne Court in Beverley to enable major building works at the site to enhance our residents lives.

Working for our organisation

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information with regard to this vacancy please see the attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Experience

• Experience of working with people with a PMLD
• Experience of working in a care home environment

Qualification and Knowledge

• NVQ Level 2 or care certificate
• Willing to undertake learning for the role
• Understanding of the care home environment

Skills and competences

• Ability to communicate effectively
• Understanding of communication strategies
• IT Skills
• Understanding of caring for a person at the end of their life
• Experience of working in a care home environment

Our recruitment team have shared their top tips to support you when you are ready to make your application. Please ensure that you read this before starting your application.

Please note that if there is a high volume of applications we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date.

This post will be subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period where applicable, further details would be included within any offer letter.

Where operationally feasible the Trust supports agile working, there is an expectation of attendance of 1 day per week at a Trust site as a minimum operationally. Unless specifically stated in the advert that a role will have home as the base of work, all roles will have the option to work from a Trust base if remote working is not for you.

If required for the post the ability to commute within the Trusts geographical area with access to the appropriate means of transport would be essential.

We will apply for a Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service for the successful candidate if this is required for the post.Anyone applying for a position which involves a regulated activity will require an enhanced Disclosure & Barring check and that the disclosure will, where appropriate to the role, include information against the Independent Safeguarding Authority barred lists for working with children or working with adults or both.

IMPORTANT: Should your application be successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted to attend an interview electronically to the email address provided at the time of the application. It is important therefore, that you CHECK YOUR EMAILS/NHS JOBS ACCOUNT on a regular basis.

If you are not contacted by the Trust within six weeks of the closing date of the vacancy, your application will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We would however like to thank you for the interest you have shown in the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.

On 1 July 2024, NHS England strengthened its commitment to supporting employees already working for the NHS who wish to embark upon an apprenticeship to aide career development.

To ensure these staff do not experience a detriment to their basic pay, the salary for duration of the apprenticeship will be consistent with their current pay or the rate paid to other apprentices, whichever is higher (subject to eligibility criteria)

This change supports exiting NHS employees to undertake a formal apprenticeship programme which, upon completion, would qualify them for a role where the evaluated pay band is the same or higher than the band of their current post.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.