NHS Nursing Apprenticeships

Start your nursing career by joining us as a Band 3 Healthcare Assistant. Depending on your role and prior experience you can follow the Healthcare Assistant career pathway. You’ll be fully supported to study whilst you work in order to gain the relevant qualification, moving you along the pathway to becoming a Band 4 Assistant Practitioner. If you chose to continue to follow the pathway, it can lead you to becoming a qualified Band 5 Staff Nurse. You can then continue to develop your career and specialisms by undertaking an Enhanced or Advanced Clinical Practitioner role with the organisation.

You may also join us as an expert by experience as a Peer Support Worker.

Apprenticeships available

Senior Healthcare Support Worker Level 3 (Mental Health Support)
Peer Support Level 3
Nursing Associate Level 5
Registered Nurse top-up for Nursing Associates/Assistant Practitioner Level 6
Registered Nurse Mental Health and Learning Disability (degree) Level 6
Enhanced Clinical Practitioner Level 6 /7
Advanced Clinical Practitioner level 7

Our offer to you

We'll take care of you

Free health and wellbeing courses
Flexible working options
Confidential Care - 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family
Employment support
5 Ways to Wellbeing self-help guidance

Your career with us

Commitment to career development
Wide range of learning opportunities
Leadership development opportunities
Return to practice course
Quality supervision and appraisal
Coaching and mentoring options

Getting involved

Comprehensive induction
Chief Executive ‘Our Journey’ events
Wide range of research studies
Involving others – Together programme
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) events

Benefits for you

Generous annual leave
Great NHS Pension
Flexible working
Good maternity, paternity and adoption leave
Childcare vouchers
Refer a friend and earn £500 (T&Cs apply)
Stagecoach bus discounts
Salary sacrifice Cyclescheme

Awards and recognition

Annual Celebrating Achievement Awards
Learner Awards
Participation at national events and conferences
Nominate achievements locally, regionally and nationally
Award winning services and staff
National participation and contribution to service development

Supporting you to live well.

"My current role means everything because it's fulfilling. I feel confident in my work and feel really good in the way I interact with the patients. I feel that I am able to be part of their recovery."

Faith - Apprentice Assistant Practitioner

"I really enjoy what I do. I find it really interesting. Being able to help people is also a huge part of why we do what we do."

Rob - Apprentice Occupational Therapist

Great place to work, great place to live

We are a successful and innovative organisation with exciting plans for the future. In the last few years we have opened The Junipers, a brand new Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and Jasmine Lodge, a Mother and Baby Unit (MBU) in Exeter and we are expanding and developing our other mental health and learning disability services.

If you’re thinking of locating to Devon or the South West, you’ll be living in one of the most beautiful parts of the country.

Come and join us and be part of our journey to becoming a centre of excellence and expertise in mental health and learning disability.