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Apprenticeship Opportunity - Trainee Nurse Associate

An exciting opportunity is open to undertake Apprenticeship training, to become a Nursing Associate in partnership with one of our local universities.

This is a 2 year developmental role. As an apprentice you will work towards progression into the post of Nursing Associate, through successful completion of the Nursing Associate training programme, which includes the attainment of a level 5 Foundation Degree equivalent qualification. The Nursing Associate apprenticeship combines both academic and work-based learning.

Apprentices will attend university for theory, and will complete work based learning in their clinical workplace. They will also experience working in alternative settings on spoke placements, to fulfill all the requirements of the programme, and registration will be with the NMC.

Main duties of the job

The job description attached lists the main duties of the role in detail however, in order to be considered for this opportunity you must be able to evidence the following when submitting your application.

• GCSEs Grade A*-C or 4-9 in Maths and English or functional skills level 2 in Maths and English
• 32 UCAS points from study at level 3 (A levels, Diploma as part of an apprenticeship or stand alone or BTEC qualification) 
• You must have relevant 12 months experience in care.

If you have previously completed any part of pre-registration nursing, please contact  [email protected]  for further assistance before submitting an application.

You must send copies of your certificates and your division of preference/service line to [email protected] 

Original copies of certificates are required to be validated at interview.

Please note you can only apply for 1 division, the divisions we are recruiting for are the following;

• Mental Health - all services
• Secure Care - all services
• Community - Bladder & Bowel (Paediatric

Divisional Information is attached to help with your choice.

Working for our organisation

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.