New online resources to help employers, learners and training providers explore the benefits of health sector apprenticeships are launched today.
Skills for Health’s website now provides details of more than 80 health sector apprenticeship roles and shows how they can be used to help tackle recruitment difficulties and improve the skills of existing staff.
The resource also offers learners an opportunity to explore the career benefits of apprenticeships, which offer structured training and development for existing staff as well as new recruits.
Government skills policy has signalled the need for a significant expansion in apprenticeships and Skills for Health is working with healthcare employers and training providers to promote wider take-up within the sector.
Today’s launch gives employers, learners and training providers a single source of information on the benefits of health sector apprenticeships together with practical advice and guidance on setting up or accessing a programme.
Resources include a database that allows users to search across the full range of health sector apprenticeships. These currently number more than 80 and include roles in clinical support as well as corporate services and estates and facilities.
Many of the materials available on the new resource can be customised for local use by employers, and all are free to use.