Trainee Apprenticeship and Widening Access Manager

We are currently looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated, Trainee Apprenticeship and Widening Access Manager, you will be based at The Heart and Lung Research Institute at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge. If you have a real interest in supporting people into working in healthcare, are looking for a challenge, the opportunity to help build a new service and enjoy variety in your work, this will be a great opportunity. You will have responsibility for apprenticeships, employability schemes, work experience and other work opportunity programmes across the Trust. You will manage the operational activity of the provision including schools and college engagement activities. This involves engaging and inspiring young people into careers at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. You will co-ordinate activities with multiple professional bodies and partners to facilitate feeder routes into all areas of healthcare careers.Main duties of the job The skills we are looking for are attention to detail, tact, patience, the ability to liaise with colleagues throughout the Hospital and beyond, excellent verbal and written communication skills with a professional and respectful manner. You will also need to access multiple IT systems. There will be on the job training and support from the Work Opportunities Team and Talent Manager. We are committed to supporting you to develop your skills and understanding of role. The development programme will be designed in conjunction with the successful applicant taking into account current skills and knowledge.

The ideal candidate will have a strong team work ethic, sense of accountability, accompanied by an ability to work under time restraints and pressure at times. We will provide the necessary support to ensure your development within your role.

• This role includes an apprenticeship qualification. Applicants must therefore have a right to work in the UK, or for EU citizens hold pre-settled or settled status and have been a UK or EU resident for the last three years or have indefinite leave to remain with documents that are not due to expire during the duration of the apprenticeship contract. Applicants must also not already have a qualification at a higher level within the same subject matter. This requirement is due to UK apprenticeship funding regulations.
  
  Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality. The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview. For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour