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Apprenticeships Opportunities in the Health Sector

Apprenticeships Opportunities in the Health Sector. NHS/ WP Staff Development day Date 27 May 2011 Jonathan Evans Skills for Health Amanda Shobrook South West Strategic Health Authority. Aim of session. Background of Apprenticeships The political landscape

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Apprenticeships Opportunities in the Health Sector

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  1. Apprenticeships Opportunities in the Health Sector NHS/ WP Staff Development day Date 27 May 2011 Jonathan Evans Skills for Health Amanda Shobrook South West Strategic Health Authority

  2. Aim of session • Background of Apprenticeships • The political landscape • Impact on the Health Care Sector • Provocative questions • Resources to find out more

  3. Background • Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act • Framework consists of • NVQ/ QCF award • Technical certificate • Employer rights and responsibilities • Personal learning and thinking skills

  4. Background • Apprenticeships at three different levels • Intermediate Level = Academic level 2 • Advanced Level = Academic level 3 • Higher Level = Academic level 4/5

  5. The political landscape • Apprenticeship embraced by all political parties • Emphasis on using apprenticeships to support the disempowered young adult to get into work. • Belief it can support the building of a technical level within the UK workforce?

  6. The political landscape • A Government faced with a £156bn fiscal debt, a worry about our credit rating • A changing labour market, a static housing market, a competitive global market • Focus on cutting waste and reforming welfare but supporting health care, education, security and infrastructure • Funding diverted to support key Coalition policies e.g. apprenticeships, pupil premium

  7. Impact on the healthcare sector • 116,000 FTE in the NHS SW • 55% Band 5-9 and 45% Band 1-4 • Average age of the overall workforce is 44 yrs • £4 billion spent on the NHS South West workforce • 80 % of the workforce is female

  8. Impact on the healthcare sector • Train to Gain abolished through the CSR • Apprenticeship funding in place but predominantly for 16-24 year olds • Apprenticeship programmes offers value for money? • Apprenticeships being promoted in a atmosphere of change particularly to the workforce

  9. Impact on the healthcare sector • QIPP plans have identified the need to develop the health care role in Agenda for Change banding 4 • There is a belief in some camps that the Higher Apprenticeship Framework could support this ? • Cost of the workforce has to match the funding provided with out effecting the quality of care.

  10. Opportunities and challenges for HE • The director for early careers and graduate recruitment at BAE Systems, Richard Hamer, has noticed a dramatic increase in the demand for apprenticeships. This includes young people who would qualify for university, who are looking instead at apprenticeship positions. One of the reasons for this upturn in applications is likely to be the huge increase in university fees. • Increasing university fees is a disincentive to many young people, who will face a large amount of student debt which has to be repaid when they are earning above a set amount each year.

  11. Apprenticeships could be an irresistible pitch • If more teenagers learnt about the benefits of the vocational route, they might quit the university path, argues Terry Watts. Many youngsters take it for granted that they will go to university. But while the academic experience has its benefits, particularly if the course prepares the candidate for a specific career, asking a few simple questions about the future may put apprenticeships on the map for potential students. • Will the choice of degree lead you to a job at the end of it? Will you come away from university with skills that are useful to a potential employer? And is completing a university degree in this way really worth the overdraft you are likely to have built up at the end? Times Higher Education Supplement 9 November 2007

  12. A non-vocational university degree is not the best route for some of our talented young people, who are getting lost along the way. Full-time university courses are wrong for some young people at 18: these courses are not focused enough on practical skills, they do not necessarily lead to employment and they are not cheap for the individual student in financial terms (university courses cost individual students heavily, which the vast majority of apprenticeships do not). University can equip youngsters with some of the right skills for their working life, but if degrees are non-vocational they don't necessarily go far enough.

  13. This is what you are up against: Apprenticeships allow students to: • earn a salary • get paid holidays • receive training • gain qualifications • learn job-specific skills • develop a career.

  14. Snowball question exercise

  15. Some useful resources… http://www.skillsforhealth.org.uk/developing-your-organisations-talent/setting-up-your-apprenticeship-programme/

  16. Some useful resources… http://www.dayinthelife.org.uk/

  17. Some useful resources…. http://www.apprenticeships.org.uk

  18. Jonathan Evans Jonathan.evans@skillsforhealth.org.uk Mob 07968637015 Amanda Shobrook Amanda.Shobrook@southwest.nhs.uk 01823 361110 Mob 07990571178 Contact Details

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