Apprenticeships - Allied Health Professionals

You will mainly work in operating departments/theatres. You will work alongside other professionals (such as doctors and nurses) and take a lead role in ensuring a patient is safe during each stage. ODPs must continually make professional decisions to ensure the patient receives the best care before, during and after their surgery. ODPs also ensure that the operating theatre environment is safe and effective and therefore have expertise in the management of specialist equipment and materials in a highly technical environment, for example handling surgical instruments, checking anaesthetic equipment, moving patients and giving medication.

You must demonstrate confidence, compassion, competence and effective judgement; being responsible for your decisions. You must use evidence based practice to inform & evaluate the effectiveness of the actions you take with the aim of continually improving outcomes for patients.

Integrated degree - Apprenticeship Level 6

Typical Apprenticeship Duration:

48 months

Application:

This apprenticeship is currently only offered to CUH Theatre Support Workers (TSW). This should not deter you – you can apply for a Theatre Support Worker role; this provides you with access to apply for this career route as an internal candidate.

Please see our current vacancies and click on Allied Health Professions.

Occupational Therapy is a rewarding career which entails working with individuals to enable them to participate in meaningful occupations and activities of everyday life. As a career, Occupational Therapists require a highly developed knowledge and professional skill-set enabling them to work across a range of settings and environments, ranging from birth to end of life. Occupational Therapists work in many settings, including health organisations, social care services, housing, education, voluntary organisations, or as independent practitioners. They also work in a wide variety of specialties including working with individuals with physical and mental health conditions, learning disabilities, long-term conditions, palliative care needs. Due to their condition or circumstances, these individuals may have difficulty carrying out their daily activities.

Occupational Therapists are problem solvers who aim to help people to carry out these activities – or ‘occupations’ – that they need to do and want to do by providing ‘practical support to empower people to facilitate recovery and overcome barriers preventing them from doing the activities that matter to them’ (Royal College of Occupational Therapists 2019).

Occupational Therapist - Integrated Degree Level 6

Typical Apprenticeship Duration:

48 months

Application:

This apprenticeship is currently only offered to CUH Occupational Therapy Assistants. Should you be interested in becoming an Occupational Therapy Assistant, these are advertised from time to time.

Please see our current vacancies and click on Allied Health Professions.

Mammography - AHP Higher Apprenticeship

Operating specialised mammography equipment safely and within standard operating procedures to produce high quality mammography images. Mammography Associates work within the breast imaging workforce undertaking routine two-view mammography (x-ray images of breasts). You will work in a multi-disciplinary team within a hospital or in a community setting (e.g. mobile breast screening units, medical centres), undertaking mammography of individuals as part of a breast screening programme. You will also be able to undertake routine mammography on individuals with symptoms of breast disease. You will have a good understanding of breast anatomy, physiology and pathology, including clinical signs and symptoms of breast cancer, and be able to apply knowledge of ionising radiation regulations.

The apprenticeship that goes alongside this role is a Higher Apprenticeship (Level 4).

Mammography Associate - Apprenticeship Level 4

Application:

This role is usually recruited to every 12-24 months depending on when there is a vacancy. Should you be interested in working as a Mammography Associate, please look for vacancies on our current vacancies page and click on Allied Health Professions.

Typical Apprenticeship Duration:

15 to 18 months

Apprenticeship Standard:

Mammography Associate (opens in a new tab)

This is a higher apprenticeship. The role is recruited to when there is a vacancy in the department. This is a permanent role which starts at a Band 3 salary, moving up to pay Band 4 once the qualification is complete.

Physiotherapy is a science-based profession. You will work with individuals, their families and carers, from birth to end of life. You will lead and deliver programmes and interventions to help people affected by injury, ageing, illness or disability. Physiotherapists use a range of physical and psychological treatment approaches, including movement, exercise and manual therapy, to optimise an individual’s mobility, function and quality of life. You will also provide education about health and wellbeing and provide specific advice that can be applied to everyday activities to manage and reduce the risk of pain or injury. The profession helps to encourage development and facilitate recovery, enabling people to remain independent for as long as possible.

As a Physiotherapist, you will practice as an autonomous, independent practitioner, while contributing strongly to team-working. You will work with people who may present with complex and challenging problems resulting from multiple illnesses, injury or disability.

Physiotherapist - Integrated Degree - Apprenticeship Level 6

Typical Apprenticeship Duration:

48 months

Application:

This apprenticeship is currently only offered internally to CUH Physiotherapy Assistants.

Should you be interested in becoming a Physiotherapy Assistant Please see our current vacancies and click on Allied Health Professions.

Integrated Degree - Apprenticeship Level 6

Obtaining images of a high diagnostic quality using a range of complex imaging equipment.

An employee in this occupation will be responsible for the safe use of imaging equipment and the safe conduct of examinations, including the radiation protection of patients, themselves, staff and visitors. As registered autonomous practitioners they are accountable both professionally and legally for their own actions and for those operating under their supervision as they deliver safe and compassionate care. Work may be undertaken independently or as part of a team. They may refer to another healthcare professional for advice; however, this may not always be available at night in smaller organisations or in satellite departments. They are expected to contribute to a 24-hour, 7-day week imaging service with varying shift patterns and on call service and, on occasion, may be the sole provider of imaging services for the organisation.

Typical Apprenticeship

Duration:

36 months This occupation is found in all healthcare settings including, primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare, independent and private healthcare sectors. The broad purpose of the occupation is to provide excellent patient care by obtaining images of a high diagnostic quality using a range of high imaging equipment. This will include imaging using x-rays and cross-sectional imaging methods (Computed Tomography or CT), fluoroscopy and Interventional Radiology and will be able to assist in other imaging modalities such as Ultrasound, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Breast Imaging and Nuclear Medicine.

Diagnostic Radiographers work with a broad range of patients, e.g. patients who may have mental and/or physical disabilities or be distressed, children and the terminally ill. They work independently to assess, authorise, obtain consent and undertake individual examination requests for radiography procedures. They will critique images and determine appropriate actions. The work is physically and mentally demanding and involves direct patient contact, which can be of a personal nature.

In their daily work, an employee in this occupation interacts with patients, their careers, members of the public and other healthcare staff e.g. porters, nurses, other allied health professionals, doctors, external contractors, engineers and medical physicists etc.

They will primarily work in diagnostic imaging departments in hospitals (inpatients and outpatients), but also provide mobile imaging on Wards, including the Intensive Care Unit, Neonatal Unit, Emergency Department and Operating Theatres. Diagnostic Radiographers may also provide imaging in stand- alone satellite units.

An employee in this occupation will be responsible for the safe use of imaging equipment and the safe conduct of examinations, including the radiation protection of patients, themselves, staff and visitors. As registered autonomous practitioners they are accountable both professionally and legally for their own actions and for those operating under their supervision as they deliver safe and compassionate care.

Work may be undertaken independently or as part of a team. They may refer to another healthcare professional for advice; however, this may not always be available at night in smaller organisations or in satellite departments. They are expected to contribute to a 24-hour, 7-day week imaging service with varying shift patterns and on call service and, on occasion, may be the sole provider of imaging services for the organisation.