Posted on: 2 July 2020
In celebration of the NHS turning 72 years of age on the 5th July we are showcasing (alongside others) an example of great partnership working across the NHS as part of the celebrations.
The West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership (WY&H HCP) will embark on an Urgent and Emergency Care Nursing Associate Apprenticeship, in partnership with the University of Huddersfield and Health Education England (HEE), after it secured major funding of £100, 000 from HEE in April 2020.
For the past four years, since it was established, WY&H HCP has been working to address current and future workforce needs, of which the development of apprenticeships for urgent and emergency care (UEC) nursing associates are an important part.
Widening participation and providing opportunities for staff across a diverse employment background is a key driver in developing this programme. There may be staff working across a range of entry level roles in health and social care who are unsure about how they can develop their skills, and would like to gain experience and a better understanding of urgent and emergency care. By implementing a unique course that gives trainees experience across the breadth of the UEC care pathway, we are offering staff who may have previously faced barriers to study, the opportunity to become a subject matter expert and UEC navigational specialist. We welcome a diverse and representative workforce for West Yorkshire and Harrogate, and the programme will help to build this.
The University already delivers highly successful apprenticeship courses for the training of nursing associates. This new two-year nursing associate apprenticeship, developed in partnership, will focus on urgent and emergency care, with the aim of increasing the workforce to meet local people’s needs.
The qualified nursing associate will be a member of the multidisciplinary health and care team. They will work under the supervision of registered nurses to deliver flexible care across a wide variety of settings.
This ambitious new course will allow candidates to draw on the ethos ‘learning together, working together’, as unique rotational work-based learning will span across health and social care settings including key partnership working between social care, emergency departments, community urgent care settings, primary and community care.
Rob Webster, CEO Lead for WY&H HCP said: ‘We are blessed with a number of excellent universities locally. Our partnership is addressing what the Covid-19 pandemic has further highlighted, the need for continued integration between health and social care. I would urge local CQC-registered employers to find out more about this new apprenticeship that will help to expand the health and care workforce’.
The urgent and emergency care trainee nursing associate role will contribute to truly patient centric, personalised care across a diverse urgent and emergency care pathway. We know the urgent and emergency care pathway intercepts paediatrics, mental health, social care, palliative care and primary care. Because of the diverse training opportunities the trainee nursing associates will develop unique and desirable skills at the end of the 2 year programme. The implementation of this role and training specifically in UEC settings supports wider integrated system working and keeping people out of A&E long term. The role is designed to contribute to the long term goals of workforce development and transformation.
This first cohort of emergency and urgent care nursing associate apprenticeships will be recruited by 14 December 2020, enabling a new course to be launched at the start of 2021.
The West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership (WY&H HCP) will embark on an Urgent and Emergency Care Nursing Associate Apprenticeship, in partnership with the University of Huddersfield and Health Education England (HEE), after it secured major funding of £100, 000 from HEE in April 2020.
For the past four years, since it was established, WY&H HCP has been working to address current and future workforce needs, of which the development of apprenticeships for urgent and emergency care (UEC) nursing associates are an important part.
Widening participation and providing opportunities for staff across a diverse employment background is a key driver in developing this programme. There may be staff working across a range of entry level roles in health and social care who are unsure about how they can develop their skills, and would like to gain experience and a better understanding of urgent and emergency care. By implementing a unique course that gives trainees experience across the breadth of the UEC care pathway, we are offering staff who may have previously faced barriers to study, the opportunity to become a subject matter expert and UEC navigational specialist. We welcome a diverse and representative workforce for West Yorkshire and Harrogate, and the programme will help to build this.
The University already delivers highly successful apprenticeship courses for the training of nursing associates. This new two-year nursing associate apprenticeship, developed in partnership, will focus on urgent and emergency care, with the aim of increasing the workforce to meet local people’s needs.
The qualified nursing associate will be a member of the multidisciplinary health and care team. They will work under the supervision of registered nurses to deliver flexible care across a wide variety of settings.
This ambitious new course will allow candidates to draw on the ethos ‘learning together, working together’, as unique rotational work-based learning will span across health and social care settings including key partnership working between social care, emergency departments, community urgent care settings, primary and community care.
Rob Webster, CEO Lead for WY&H HCP said: ‘We are blessed with a number of excellent universities locally. Our partnership is addressing what the Covid-19 pandemic has further highlighted, the need for continued integration between health and social care. I would urge local CQC-registered employers to find out more about this new apprenticeship that will help to expand the health and care workforce’.
The urgent and emergency care trainee nursing associate role will contribute to truly patient centric, personalised care across a diverse urgent and emergency care pathway. We know the urgent and emergency care pathway intercepts paediatrics, mental health, social care, palliative care and primary care. Because of the diverse training opportunities the trainee nursing associates will develop unique and desirable skills at the end of the 2 year programme. The implementation of this role and training specifically in UEC settings supports wider integrated system working and keeping people out of A&E long term. The role is designed to contribute to the long term goals of workforce development and transformation.
This first cohort of emergency and urgent care nursing associate apprenticeships will be recruited by 14 December 2020, enabling a new course to be launched at the start of 2021.