Apprentice - Carpenter/Joiner

Salary Information:
Your starting salary will be £12,162.00

Year 2 - £13,175.50

Year 3 - £14,922.60

Year 4 - £15,988.50

If at Year 2 you are over 18 years old you will be paid at the National minimum wage / National living wage for your age.

An exciting and challenging position has arisen for level 3 Apprenticeships in Carpenter / Joiner within The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

The apprenticeship will potentially commence during the week commencing 21stAugust 2023, subject to all necessary checks being carried out. Qualifications acceptable on entry are a minimum of GCSE Grade C / 4, or equivalent, in at least 5 subjects to include Mathematics.

If you decide to apply for this post please complete the online application form and add as much information as possible in the Supporting Information section of the application form – though please do not put any identifying or personal information in.

• Interview Date: 11 May 2023
• 37 hours 30 minutes/week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.

Support service installations and their maintenance are an essential part of the NHS and form a vital link in Health Care Provision. The precise details of any of the apprenticeship are dependent on a number of factors that may be subject to change at various stages of the training and qualifications already obtained, however, the information below will provide an overview of the envisaged training requirements of the apprenticeship.

The major element of the apprenticeship is practical training in Wood Occupations to Level 3 Standard; the apprentice will attend the College either one day per week or block release depending on location and college.

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with over 18,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.

Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC for the second consecutive time in 2019, we have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

To follow instructions, training, guidance to achieve applicants’ apprenticeship framework
with the timeframe agreed and work with the Trust statutory requirements.

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.