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Band 4
Full-time

Career Development and Apprenticeship Practitioner

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation TrustChesterfield Royal Hospital, Top Road, Chesterfield, S44 5BL, United Kingdom£28,392 - £31,157Closes 20/09/2026

At a glance

Band
Band 4
Contract
Permanent
Pattern
Full-time
Posted
04/09/2026
Closes
20/09/2026

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Role summary

This role supports the Career Development and Apprenticeship Team in delivering and evaluating Care Certificate and Care Certificate Supervisor programmes. The practitioner will deliver training for level 2 and 3 healthcare apprenticeships, including teaching, assessing, and marking work. They will also support work experience programmes and provide pastoral care to candidates in practice, such as T levels and BTech students. The position requires recent acute clinical experience in a hospital setting and a foundation degree in health or equivalent teaching qualification.

Essential criteria

  • Maths and English at GCSE GRADE C/4 or Level 2 Functional skills.
  • Level 5 foundation degree in health or equivalent relevant teaching qualification.
  • Teaching and assessing qualification for apprenticeships (TAQA)

Desirable criteria

  • Care Certificate Supervisor or mentor
  • Recent acute clinical experience within a hospital setting.
  • Ability to teaching a skill
  • Supervision in practice
  • Clinical teaching experience
  • Experience of coordinating staff
  • Sound presentation skills
  • Up to date knowledge of healthcare related conditions
  • Awareness of the Care certificate standards
  • Ability to teach
  • Ability to use Microsoft software to develop teaching resources e.g. PowerPoint presentations.
  • Familiar with creating lesson plans
  • Able to give constructive feedback
  • Maths and English at GCSE GRADE C/4 or Level 2 Functional skills.
  • Level 5 foundation degree in health or equivalent relevant teaching qualification.
  • Teaching and assessing qualification for apprenticeships (TAQA)
  • Care Certificate Supervisor or mentor
  • Recent acute clinical experience within a hospital setting.
  • Ability to teaching a skill
  • Supervision in practice
  • Clinical teaching experience
  • Experience of coordinating staff
  • Sound presentation skills
  • Up to date knowledge of healthcare related conditions
  • Awareness of the Care certificate standards
  • Ability to teach
  • Ability to use Microsoft software to develop teaching resources e.g. PowerPoint presentations.
  • Familiar with creating lesson plans
  • Able to give constructive feedback

Useful to know

Band 4 pay context

Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 4 at £26,530 – £29,114 a year, across England.

This advert: £28,392 – £31,157 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.

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Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Career Development and Apprenticeship Practitioner

The closing date is 20 September 2026

Job summary

To support the Career Development and Apprenticeship Team in the delivery and evaluation of the Care Certificate and Care Certificate Supervisor programmes to meet service priorities and quality standards. To deliver training on the level 2 and 3 healthcare apprenticeships. Being able to teach, assess in practice and mark work in line with apprenticeship standard requirements.

To support with work experience programmes and provide pastoral support to candidates in practice including T levels and BTech students.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will have up to date experience in a hospital setting delivering care. A foundation degree in health or equivalent teaching qualification is required.

They will have experience in delivering clinical education or have had a mentorship/ supervisory role in practice. They will be familiar with the Care Certificate induction and its standards and be able to teach new support staff on induction to the hospital, including resuscitation and vital signs.

Microsoft skills will be required to enable them to plan lessons and create PowerPoint presentations for teaching . Delivery of the level 2 and level 3 healthcare apprenticeship teaching and assessing will be part

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