L3 - Staff and Community Health and Wellbeing Apprenticeship
Health and Wellbeing Champions are individuals who work at all levels of the health and care workforce, from all demographics and roles, who will promote, identify and signpost their colleagues to local and national health and wellbeing support offers. This is intended to be taken on as a responsibility in addition to their day to day role
This Apprenticeship has the potential to enhance the profile and importance of ‘Staff Wellbeing champions’ through a structured programme of work based learning and personal development
This Apprenticeship utilises the 'L3 Community Health and Wellbeing Worker Apprenticeship' standard to enable the Staff Wellbeing Champions to broaden their skills, scope and to apply the enhanced knowledge, skills and behaviours gained to benefit both staff and other contacts i.e. patients, service users and customers.
Why Staff Wellbeing Champions might benefit from an Apprenticeship
Our health is informed by the wider social determinants of health, such as the social, cultural, political, economic, commercial, and environmental factors that shape the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age. This applies to equally to staff, patients, customers in equal measure.
Benefits to Staff Wellbeing Champions
- Will enhance the profile and importance of ‘Staff Wellbeing champions’ through a structured programme of work based learning and personal development
- Potential to broaden skills and scope to apply knowledge, skills and behaviours to both staff and other contacts i.e. patients, service users and customers
- Will enhance knowledge and partnership by working with a range of health and wellbeing services available staff within their local community
- Will enhance knowledge around causes of ill health, modifiable risks and the wider/social determinants of health
- Will enhance skills and knowledge around behavioural science, tackling health inequalities, cultural competence, whole person approaches to health
Benefits for the employer
- Strategic drivers like the NHS Long term workforce plan and the Skills for Care Workforce Strategy for Adult Social care support the concept of enabling the health and social care workforce to have the skills and knowledge needed support patients with their health and wellbeing, preventing ill health.
- Having skilled and motivated ‘Staff Wellbeing Champions’ that can advanced their skills, knowledge and behaviours through an Apprenticeship programme
- Potential to improve health for Staff: Staff wellbeing, Sickness absence, Staff Survey’s (inc CQC rating for Staff Support NHS), Recruitment and Retention (employer of choice).
- Potential to improve health for Patients, Service Users and Customers: Enhancing employer anchor role, Corporate Social Responsibility, Personalised care and prevention (NHS), re-admission preventative ill health (NHS).
- Apprenticeships are usually fully funded via the Apprenticeship levy or Levy gifting
Improved partnership working with Local Authority Public Health Teams, VCSE and charitable sector. - Opportunity for this workforce to progress their career within the service through the knowledge, skills and behaviours gained from this apprenticeship
Key Apprenticeship information
Programme length
- Circa 15 months plus assessment. The exact timeframe can depend on experience and employer support to provide the apprentice with the time needed to develop the work based skills, knowledge and experience required within the Apprenticeship standard. See example timetable in the attachment section of this webpage below
Entry and completion criteria
- There are no formal qualifications required to undertake this Apprenticeship however it is a requirement for the Apprentice to achieve a level 2 in Maths and English by the end of the Apprenticeship. This can either be evidenced via a certificate of qualification e.g. GCSE Level 4/Grade C or equivalent (e.g. O Level or International equivalent) or by gaining a level 3 in adult literacy and numeracy from the Apprenticeship provider before the end point assessment which takes place towards the end of the Apprenticeship.
- 'Staff Wellbeing Champions' that are undertaking the apprenticeship must be given the opportunity to enhance their role which which will both manager and organisational support to provide a least 6 hours per week 'off the job training' in order to complete the Apprenticeship standard. This is a commitment shared with all Apprenticeships and is not unique to this one.
For further information, please contact the Workforce Development Team by email: yhphnetwork@dhsc.gov.uk. Further information can also be found in the attachments below.
