NHS Business Services Practitioner Apprenticeship

Exciting opportunities have arisen for NHS Business Service Practitioner Apprenticeships at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; the posts are available to anyone who is interested in working within an NHS Healthcare environment while completing a Level 2 Apprenticeship qualification in Customer Service (15 months).

We are looking for enthusiastic people with a professional attitude, excellent communication skills, positive work ethic and good interpersonal skills. You will require willingness to work as a team, demonstrate motivation, be willing to learn and have the minimum required education.

An Apprenticeship Education Programme is an integrated work based training and development programme, an excellent springboard to start your NHS career while gaining knowledge and competencies leading to a nationally accredited apprenticeship qualification and possible future career progression., We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting

Staff new to the Trust will be employed on an apprentice contract so that they have an opportunity to 'earn while they learn'. Our apprenticeships offer:

• Earn a salary while studying
• Gain job specific skills
• Study towards a related qualification including literacy and numeracy (if required)
• Have regular pastoral support and personal development reviews
• Are employed on a 15-month training contract
• Enjoy benefits such as paid annual leave, comprehensive mandatory training, protected time for your studies and NHS discounts