Exciting opportunities to work and train as a healthcare support worker in Herefordshire – Find out more at High Town Event 4 February 2022
Wye Valley NHS Trust is launching further full time apprenticeships for people interested in a career in healthcare in Herefordshire, which provide opportunities to train as a healthcare support worker, and the team will be in Hereford High Town on Friday 4 February, from 10am until 4pm, where you can find out more.
Successful applicants will begin their role as a healthcare assistant while undertaking Level 2 health and social care training. Once qualified there are further training opportunities available to Level 3 in health and social care moving on to Training Nurse Associate and Registered Nurse Degree. These provide a great stepping stone into a Nursing career.
The full time paid apprenticeships are available to applicants with or without previous health care experience, who would like a career in health care and are based in hospitals across the county.
Victoria Price, who joined the Trust six years ago as a health care support worker, said: “I began working at Leominster Community Hospital in 2015. My journey started as a healthcare assistant where I was able to complete a variety of competencies. An opportunity to complete further training to become an assistant practitioner became available and a more recent development where I have been successful to gain a place on the Registered Nurse Degree Apprenticeship (RGN)”.
There are no set entry requirements to become a healthcare support worker, but good literacy and numeracy skills are expected, if you are not in possession of a Maths or English GCSE or equivalent, the Trust will support you to undertake Maths and English Functional Skills.
The opportunities are also available to applicants with experience in Health Care for vacancies across the Trust. The deadline to apply for these roles is 8 February 2022. To apply click
https://beta.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9229-22-8789
To gain an understanding of the role of a HCSW please watch the attached video. https://youtu.be/-mnJkeMeS24
