High-calibre apprenticeships

About the course and qualification

Your apprentice will enrol on a three-year IET-accredited BEng Electronic Engineering degree pathway that includes 28 weeks of teaching each academic year at our Colchester Campus. They will return to the workplace when not at university where you'll provide further vocational learning outcomes in line with the Embedded Electronic Systems Design and Development Engineer Degree Apprenticeship Standard.

See our apprenticeship pages for more information on the course modules, course structure, entry requirements and School facilities.

Costs

£27,000 (80% divided monthly during practical training period and 20% at completion of End Point Assessment).

If your business has an annual pay bill of more than £3 million you can pay the fee from your levy payments in your Digital Apprenticeship Service account. 

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Slingo Originals Studio is an independent online games development company, run by Creative Directors Phil Halston and Dan Lamond. The team were keen to recruit new employees who demonstrated enthusiasm about game development and took on Fletcher Hurn as an apprentice to build the engines needed for the company to design and build its games.

Phil expressed “We wanted to train and mould people to fit our business needs. Developers are in high demand so recruiting staff is expensive, and we had access to the Apprenticeship Levy which had previously not been used.”

Our Apprenticeships team helped Slingo Originals to make use of the Apprenticeship Levy, prepare a contract, write a job description and advertise their vacancy using the National Apprenticeships Service, UCAS and our webpages. 

Explaining why apprentices like Fletcher have such a valuable asset for the company, Phil said: “They have a fresh approach to work and are open to ideas but are also willing to challenge them and ask why something is done in a particular way. They provide us with valuable feedback on our games and want to make things better by challenging the status quo!”

About the course and qualification

Your apprentice will enrol on a FdSc Health Science degree as part of the Healthcare Assistant Practitioner Apprenticeship Standard which has been designed to stretch and challenge your employees to develop both their academic and clinical skills. The length of the whole apprenticeship is 24 months.

There is the opportunity upon successful completion to progress onto our BSc Healthcare Practice or Registered Nursing Degree Apprenticeship (BSc Nursing).

See our apprenticeship pages for more information on the course modules, course structure, entry requirements and School facilities.

Costs

£12,000 (80% divided monthly during the practical training period and 20% paid on completion of the End Point Assessment)

If your business has an annual pay bill of more than £3 million you can pay the fee from your levy payments in your Digital Apprenticeship Service account.

See more information on funding and costs.

Ofsted rating

Essex is proud to be one of the first universities in the UK to have its Healthcare Assistant Practitioner Higher Apprenticeship Ofsted inspected and receive a “good” rating.

In their report, the Ofsted inspectors commented that employers valued the skills the apprentices learnt during their course at the University, which led to them becoming skilled and caring practitioners, to the benefit of their patients.

The Ofsted report said almost all the apprentices, many of whom have been out of education for long periods of time, completed their apprenticeship and achieved their qualification. With effective support from university staff, the apprentices also developed the skills they needed for their next steps in their health service careers.

About the course and qualification

The NMC have changed their professional standards for nursing and as such we are refreshing our curriculum for 2020 entry to meet these standards. This means that for October 2020 entry, this course is subject to NMC approval and University of Essex validation.

Your Apprentice will be able to enrol on either the BSc Nursing (Adult) or BSc Nursing (Mental Health) pathway as part of the Registered Nurse Apprenticeship Standard.

See our apprenticeship pages for more information on the course modules, course structure, entry requirements and School facilities.

Costs

£13,500 in total (80% divided monthly during the practical training period and 20% paid on completion of the End Point Assessment).

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Your employees will be able to study our Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) Degree Apprenticeship at either our Colchester or Southend campus. We’ve carefully planned this apprenticeship to work flexibly around their professional needs and commitments to maximise the benefits to you both.

This apprenticeship is suitable for health care professionals from a range of backgrounds, including nursing and midwifery, as well as allied health professions such as pharmacy, occupational therapy and speech and language therapy. Your staff may already be working in an advanced role but require professional qualifications, or you may be looking to develop their skills set to enable progression to an ACP role.

Time away from their normal clinical role to study will need to be given as part of the apprenticeship to fulfil the 20% off the job training hours.

Although ‘Advanced Clinical Practitioner’ is not currently a regulated title, it is expected to be in the near future using the national Multi-Professional Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice as the criteria to be able to register on a data base of ACPs.

The apprenticeship is underpinned by the national framework for advanced clinical practice which means that as well as gaining the MSc Advanced Clinical Practitioner qualification, on completion, your employee/s will also be eligible to apply for ACP roles. Depending on the modules chosen they will gain skills in leadership, critical thinking and clinical decision-making, as well as enhanced knowledge of specific areas of specialist clinical practice.

See our apprenticeship pages for more information on the course modules, course structure, entry requirements and School facilities.

Costs

£12,000 in total (80% divided monthly during the practical training period and 20% paid on completion of the End Point Assessment).

See more information on funding and costs.

To find out more and to register your interest please contact: apprenticeships@essex.ac.uk