Business Administration Apprentice Level 3
Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep.
Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
An exciting opportunities have arisen for Business Administration Apprentices, within Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; the posts are available to anyone who is interested in working within an NHS Healthcare environment while completing a Level 3 Apprenticeship qualification.
NEP is hosted by Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
To ensure that NEP maintains its position at the leading edge of electronic commerce and financial management, we are committed to an on-going programme of maintaining and supporting the system on behalf of the Consortium Organisations.
NEP maintain and develop a Cloud based Financials and Procurement System on behalf of a Consortium of NHS Organisations.
We are seeking to appoint 2 highly motivated individuals to join our team based in Stokesley, North Yorkshire.
Main duties of the job
An Apprenticeship Education Programme is an integrated work based training and development programme, an excellent springboard to start your NHS career while gaining knowledge and competencies leading to a nationally accredited apprenticeship qualification and possible future career progression.
The successful candidate will gain the following skills and experience;- To gain relevant work based learning within a Business Administration environment.
- To support and assist in the provision of an administration service to the NEP team.
- Become prepared and knowledgeable within the working environment and work towards gaining a Level 3 Apprenticeship in Business Administration.
Working for our organisation
NEP is hosted by Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and is the largest NHS Consortium in England. NEP provides a cutting-edge, fully integrated finance and procurement solution tailored specifically for NHS organisations, configured on Oracle Cloud ERP.
Through collaboration and shared learning, we empower our members to optimise resources, meet evolving directives, driving improve outcomes for patients.
At NEP, we foster a culture of inclusion, collaboration and continuous improvement. Staff are supported to grow professionally through mentorship, development programmes and opportunities to work on innovative projects. Our hybrid-working model supports a healthy work-life balance while maintaining strong team connectivity and service delivery.
You will join a motivated and knowledgeable team, where your input is genuinely valued. We are proud of our collaborative ethos and our shared commitment to supporting front-line NHS services through reliable digital infrastructure.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are looking for enthusiastic people with a professional attitude, excellent communication skills, positive work ethic and good interpersonal skills. You will require willingness to work as a team, demonstrate motivation, be willing to learn and have the minimum required education.
Become prepared and knowledgeable within the working environment and work towards gaining a Level 3 Apprenticeship as a Business Administrator.
To support and assist in the provision of an administration service to the designated NEP team. This will include data input, administration assistance to the wider team, problem solving and dealing with internal and external enquiries.
Person specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration
Essential criteria- 5 GCSE’s at level A-C or 9-4 (including Maths, English)
- AS/A Levels
Experience & Knowledge
Desirable criteria- Previous experience of working in a business administration / customer focused role
- Experience of data entry and retrieval
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates.We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Certificate of Sponsorship
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application.Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.