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Nursing apprenticeship

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Nursingadvice · 16/04/2024 20:28

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I am late 30’s and feel massively unsettled. I seem to have developed ambition which was unfortunately lacking in my younger years and now feel like I need a career.

I currrently work in the NHS as a band 4 In the health visiting team. I have not been in the NHS for very long. I am really thinking about progression but the only progression for me in my current role is nursing and I can not afford uni nor can I manage the placements and shift work with childcare.

I know there’s are nursing degree apprenticeships which would at least solve the money issues, but does anybody know if it is in anyway possible to do a nursing degree whilst keeping my current job and 9-5 hours. I know I’d obviously still need to go on placements for experience as my current job would not expose me to the medical side of things.

I have no idea who at work I could talk to about this as it’s unheard of. Band 5 up to 6 is common but band 4s just stay put or leave.

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FlissyPaps · 16/04/2024 21:15

I work in NHS, admin though, and I am currently doing a Business Administration apprenticeship. I have a ‘study day’ one day a week and do my normal job the remaining 4 days. Speak to your Learning and Development department. There will be info on your Trust’s staff intranet page.

The Trust I work for do a Nursing Associate apprenticeship in partnership with our city’s main university. Your best starting point is contacting your Trust’s education or apprenticeship lead for more information and options.

Saintmariesleuth · 16/04/2024 21:15

Hi OP, there are several types of apprenticeship programmes in nursing at the moment- which one are you specifically looking at? TNA? RDNA? Which country are you based in?

Lucyccfc68 · 16/04/2024 21:15

No you can’t stay in your current role.

An apprenticeship is a mix of on/off the job training and the study you do as part of the degree. You need to be able to show, at the end of the apprenticeship, that you are competent in the role. The degree will only give you ‘knowledge and theory’. You need to be doing the nursing role alongside it.

Apprenticeship funding rules state that you have to do 30 hours a week.

Think of it as a ‘job with training and a degree attached’.

WreckTangled · 16/04/2024 21:11

I am doing this currently. Feel free to PM me.

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Nursingadvice · 16/04/2024 21:08

As in, I don’t know if there would be the same amount of placement hours as a uni degree route

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Nursingadvice · 16/04/2024 21:07

I don’t know how the placements would work on an apprenticeship

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FlyingPizzaMonkey · 16/04/2024 21:05

How would you do the placements if you don’t have the childcare?

I think I vaguely remember one student who did an apprenticeship but I think her work had to agree to it or second her or something.