Health and Social Care Apprenticeship - Poole
GENTILWOOD LIMITED
Broadstone (BH18 8AL)
Closes on Friday 23 May 2025
Posted on 16 April 2025
Contents
Summary
Burwood Nursing Home are looking for Health and Social Care Apprentices! You will be studying toward your Level 2 Adult Care Apprenticeship. No experience required.
- Wage
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£25,350 a year
- Training course
- Adult care worker (level 2)
- Hours
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Shifts Range Between (07:00AM-20:00PM) - May Inc. Evenings & Weekends.
39 hours a week
- Start date
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Friday 30 May 2025
- Duration
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1 year
- Positions available
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3
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you’ll do at work
We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for individuals aspiring to pursue a career in care. We provide extensive support for apprentices through a wide range of engaging and enriching learning experiences. Apprentices will enhance their understanding of care while adopting a strength-based approach to their professional ethos. As the only home in Poole with an in-house physiotherapist, we are committed to ensuring that everyone has the right and opportunity for continuous rehabilitation.
You will collaborate with a supportive and enthusiastic team dedicated to one and our residents. You will gain valuable knowledge on effectively supporting individuals aged 65 and over with various health and social care needs. You will develop an understanding of care plans and how to provide support in accordance with them. Additionally, you will address the physical, social, and emotional needs of individuals through the care and assistance you deliver.
Your role will include;
- To safeguard people
- To deliver physical and social care and support
- To work well within a team
- To ensure people receive the best care and support they can
- Respond to people's needs efficiently
Where you’ll work
Burwood Nursing Home, 100 Dunyeats Road
Broadstone
BH18 8AL
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
PARAGON EDUCATION & SKILLS LIMITED
Your training course
Adult care worker (level 2)
Equal to GCSE
Course contents
- Support individuals they are working with according to their personal care/support plan
- Ask for help from an appropriate person when not confident or skilled in any aspect of their role
- Provide individuals with information to enable them to have a choice about the way they are supported
- Encourage individuals to participate in the way their care and support is delivered
- Ensure the individual knows what they are agreeing to regarding the way in which they are supported
- Contribute to the on-going development of care/support plans for the individual they support
- Support individuals with cognitive, physical or sensory impairments
- Ensure dignity is at the centre of all work with the individuals they support, their families, carers and advocates
- Demonstrate all work is person centred, accommodating the individual’s needs, wishes and preferences
- Demonstrate empathy (understanding and compassion) for individuals they support
- Demonstrate courage in supporting people in ways that may challenge their personal/cultural beliefs
- Speak clearly and exhibit positive non-verbal communication to individuals, families, carers and advocates
- Use the preferred methods of communication of the individual they support according to their language, culture, sensory needs and their wishes
- Identify and take steps to reduce environmental barriers to communication
- Demonstrate they can check for understanding
- Write clearly and concisely in records and reports
- Keep information safe and confidential according to agreed ways of working
- Recognise potential signs of different forms of abuse
- Respond to concerns of abuse according to agreed ways of working
- Recognise, report and challenge unsafe practices
- Promote the health and wellbeing of the individual they support
- Move people and objects safely
- Demonstrate how to reduce the spread of infection, including use of best practice in hand hygiene
- Demonstrate the promotion of healthy eating and wellbeing by ensuring individuals have access to fluids, food and nutrition
- Demonstrate how to keep people, buildings and themselves safe and secure
- Carry out fire safety procedures when required
- Use risk assessments to support individuals safely
- Recognise symptoms of cognitive impairment, e.g. Dementia, learning disabilities and mental health
- Monitor and report changes in health and wellbeing for individuals they support
- Reflect on your own work practices
- Demonstrate the development of their own skills and knowledge, including core skills in writing, numbers and information technology
- Demonstrate their contribution to their development plan
- Demonstrate ability to work in partnership with others to support the individual
- Identify sources of support when conflicts arise with other people or organisations
- Demonstrate they can work within safe, clear professional boundaries
- Show they can access and apply additional skills required to perform the specific job role competently
Your training plan
Paragon Skills is a leading national Apprenticeship training provider, supporting over 4,000 learners and 1,500 organisations. Paragon Skills has some of the highest success and achievement rates in the industry.
It has an Ofsted Grade 2 Good rating and an overall achievement rate of 71.4%, exceeding the national average of 65.6%. Using a blended approach, learners are always at the forefront of our priorities. All learners are assigned a Personal Tutor who will be their main point of contact.
This involves regular catch-ups, check-in emails and calls. Your employer will agree to give you 20% of your working hours solely towards your study.
This will give you every chance to achieve the highest grade possible! On completion of this 12 month apprenticeship you will have gained; Adult Care Worker - Level 2 Apprenticeship
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
Other in:
- Health and Social Care (grade Pass)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
Other requirements
Working hours Please note that anyone under the age of 18 can only work a maximum of 40 hours per week. Any role which exceeds these hours should be amended accordingly, to fall in line with the legislation.
About this company
Based in the charming surroundings of Broadstone, Poole, nature is very much at the forefront of what we provide to our residents at our care home. We have an extensive outdoor area for when the weather is good and large windows when it isn’t, along with live streams of the gardens and bird boxes on every television.
After this apprenticeship
Possibility of a full-time role after the completion of the apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
PARAGON EDUCATION & SKILLS LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000315352.
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Closes on Friday 23 May 2025
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