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The standard for Customer Service Specialist has been approved for delivery for just over 7 months and as part…

This week’s Featured Apprentice on HASO is Pamela Duley, a Level 6…

The standard for Property Maintenance Operative has been approved for delivery for a few years now and as part…

Health Education England are pleased to announce that they will be extending their support for Functional Skills exams until March 2024. HEE and awarding body Open Awards will be…

The Care Certificate was launched in April 2015 and over the past six years, thousands of health and social care support workers have successfully…

Angelo Varetto – Head of NOS, Qualifications and Apprenticeships from Skills for Health had a chat with Ken Laidlaw, PhD – Professor of Clinical Psychology about his involvement…

The standard for Social Worker (Integrated Degree) has been approved for delivery for over 2 years and as part of their…

Featured in today’s ‘Meet the Mentor’ series in collaboration with Skills for Health, is apprenticeship mentor Niki…

The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education is recruiting independent peer reviewers to review the content and assessment materials for apprenticeships…

The Doctor (Degree) Trailblazer group is pleased to announce that it has opened a consultation on a draft Apprenticeship Standard for Doctor Degree (GMC…

The standard for Physiotherapist (Integrated Degree) has been approved for delivery for two and half years and as part…

The following apprenticeship standards have been updated: (more…)

We are putting together information packs to help employers and potential apprentices navigate apprenticeships. Today we are publishing the Healthcare Support Worker apprenticeship information pack,…

To support the national uptake of the Community Health & Wellbeing Worker apprenticeship, HEE will run a national procurement to source providers. To enable this, HEE…

This week’s Featured Apprentice on HASO is Kate Farrington, a Level 5 Assistant Practitioner (Health) apprentice working at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust…

HEE facilitates an ESOL Practice Group of practitioners working in health and social care. It exists to share ways of working on the strategic importance…

The employer group met again last week to discuss the MPharm Degree Apprenticeship Standard for Pharmacist. There has been a long break between…

As part of the Assistant Practitioner standard consultation survey, some specific questions about the inclusion of mandatory qualifications were asked. The results of the survey…

Today we are launching our new series ‘Meet the Mentor’ in collaboration with Skills for Health. A mentor plays a unique…

We are always very happy to hear about hard working colleagues being recognised for their contribution to the sector. So we were thrilled when we…

The results of the Healthcare Support Worker Apprenticeship Standard survey are now in: We had a total of 114 responses from individuals working in a…

The results of the Senior Healthcare Support Worker Apprenticeship Standard survey are now in: We had a total of 142 responses from individuals working in…

Covid-19 has required many of us to work remotely and in a more flexible and agile way to meet new demands. No…

The Enhanced Clinical Practitioner Trailblazer is delighted to announce that the apprenticeship standard for Enhanced Clinical Practitioner has been approved for delivery by the Institute…

Further to the announcement of the 6 fully integrated EPAs published, the funding bands were reviewed and, as a result,…

Health Education England in partnership with NHS England and NHS Improvement Estates and Facilities National Team, are hosting an event on Monday 12th July…

As part of our series ‘What is it like to be an Apprenticeship Lead’, this month we are introducing to you Lisa…

We are putting together information packs to help employers and potential apprentices navigate apprenticeships. Today we are publishing the Operating Department Practitioner (Degree)…

The results of the Peer Worker Apprenticeship Standard survey are now in: We had a total of 97 responses from individuals working in a wide…

This week’s Featured Apprentice on HASO is Melanie Lovering, a Level 3 Senior Healthcare Support Worker apprentice working at North Devon District Hospital…

A new manual, co-authored by employers and providers within the sector and Government, has today been published to set out how flexibilities in apprenticeships…

ESFA have published new guidance for providers on how to join the RoATP. The service for the new application criteria went live on 17th May…

As apprenticeships are becoming implemented more widely, we have been exploring with employers and apprentices what is it like on the ground. This month we…

Following the recent publication of the Enhanced Clinical Practitioner standard and end-point assessment plan, we are introducing the chair and the co-chair who lead…

HEE funded software provider bksb is holding a series of webinars to improve English, maths and digital skills provision. There is no cost to…

Every 6 weeks Trailblazer groups make submissions of Proposals, Standards and Assessment plans to the Institute for Apprenticeships & Technical Education. The Institute…

This week’s Featured Apprentice on HASO is Chris Brown, a Level 6 Registered Nurse (Degree) apprentice working at Sirona Care & Health. “I…

Guidance from the government has been published on how the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education should carry out its functions for the 2021…

The Enhanced Clinical Practitioner Trailblazer group are delighted to announce that the Enhanced Clinical Practitioner Standard and End Point Assessment Plan have now been…

Health Education England’s Apprenticeship team is very pleased to announce that funding for software to support functional skills has been extended to all social…