Registered Nurse Degree Apprenticeship
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- Nursing
- 5
- Permanent
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- Full time
- Flexible working
- 319-7609764LH
- Trustwide
- Trustwide
- £31,049 - £37,796 per anum
- Yearly
- 23/11/2025 23:59
- 05/12/2025
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.
Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It’s open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
Northumbria Health and Care Academy are delighted to open applications for the first cohort of Registered Nurse Degree Apprentices to be educated at the Academy in partnership with the University of Sunderland.
Applicants will be currently working as a registered nursing associate at Northumbria Healthcare Trust. They will be required to undergo a recruitment process via the Trust, followed by an application process with the University of Sunderland.
Registered Nursing Degree Apprentices will study at the Academy, beginning in April 2026, for a two-year period. They will undertake a series of placements in a range of areas across the Trust, completing a minimum number of placement hours alongside academic assessments.
Successful completion of the programme will enable graduates to gain entry to the NMC Nursing Register.
Applicants should bear in mind that there are restrictions around annual leave dates based on the delivery of key teaching, exams and assessments. Those who are invited to interview will be provided with the study timetable to ensure that they do not currently have any annual leave that clashes with the key delivery dates of the programme. It is not possible to enrol on the programme if annual leave is required during the key delivery dates.
The provisions of Agenda for Change Annex 21 – Arrangements for Pay and Banding of Trainees, would apply whilst undertaking training in this role. (65% of the pay band maximum for the qualified rate).
Length of Training : 2 years
For further information on Annex 21, please see:
Interviews and selection tests for the programme will take place on Friday, 5th December at the Health and Care Academy. Virtual interviews are not available. No other dates will be considered.
Main duties of the job
Registered Nursing Degree Apprentices will be expected to work in a collaborative and cooperative manner, completing assigned duties including direct patient care under the supervision of practice supervisors and assessors. They will maintain the safety, welfare and dignity of patients at all times.
Apprentices will complete all aspects of clinical and theoretical work required to achieve the academic and clinical competencies required to register with the NMC as a nurse.
They will work under the supervision of a practice supervisor or assessor across a range of clinical services and sites within the Trust.
Apprentices will have the capacity and capability to commit to study at an undergraduate degree level and be able to maintain a portfolio of their clinical and theoretical development in line with NMC requirements and the set expectations of the University of Sunderland and the Health and Care Academy and Practice Education team.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England?
Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Applicants must currently have, as a minimum:
- English and Maths GCSE at C/4 or equivalent (applicants must hold certificates or be able to otherwise prove via the online individualized learning record for qualifications obtained after 2014)
- Active NMC registration as a nursing associate
- 3 years as an ordinary resident of the UK or membership of another eligible group in line with Annex A: Residency eligibility criteria of the Apprenticeship funding rules for August 2025 to July 2026
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- English and Maths GCSE at C/4 or equivalent (applicants must hold certificates or be able to otherwise prove via the online individualized learning record for qualifications obtained after 2014)
Registrations
Essential criteria
- Active NMC registration as a nursing associate
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- 3 years as an ordinary resident of the UK or membership of another eligible group in line with Annex A: Residency eligibility criteria of the Apprenticeship funding rules for August 2025 to July 2026
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Certificate of Sponsorship
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Health and Care Academy
- Job title
- Team
- Email address
- healthandcareacademy@nhct.nhs.uk
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