Nuffield Health: apprenticeships fit for the future

#ThinkApprenticeshipFirst

Nuffield Health's objective is to become an employer of choice across its prime sectors. It’s already maximising the levy to upskill existing staff – but it plans to take this one step further.

To reach a wider talent pool from different backgrounds, it's leveraging Lifetime’s marketing and engagement support to take recruitment to the next level and, essentially, get the message out there.

For every single new vacancy, managers are encouraged to #ThinkApprenticeshipFirst. Working together, we’ll raise the profile of its campaign, boost engagement with apprenticeships and change the mindset of hiring managers to incorporate new job roles and reach out to the wider community.

Establishing recruitment synergy

For Nuffield Health, the Great Resignation meant vacancies needed to be filled across diverse teams, from Personal Trainers to Healthcare Assistants and Early Years Practitioners.

Apprenticeship recruitment has proved to be an invaluable solution for hard-to-fill vacancies; it’s resulted in one in three of Nuffield Health’s sites recruiting an apprentice. It’s also opened up opportunities to proactively find, attract and onboard people from different backgrounds – ideally in the top 20% IMD.

But to reach people from all backgrounds and fill critical vacancies, there needs to be recruitment synergies – both internally and externally. To make it happen, Lifetime’s recruitment team works as a natural extension of Nuffield Health, with a cohort approach that reaches out to the wider community at speed. We asked one of Nuffield’s Heath’s Line Managers, Simona Giedraityte, her thoughts:

Shaping Nuffield Health’s next generation

Clear career pathways are the foundation of social mobility, especially for younger generations. Whether the end goal is to become a qualified Nurse, Personal Trainer or future leader, apprenticeships provide Nuffield Health’s young workforce with routes for development, known internally as Early Careers Pathways.

Nuffield Health also recognises that young people need to hear authentic messages about inclusivity in the workplace – and they need to hear them more. A key part of this is showcasing apprenticeships as an excellent alternative to university.

We’re working together to support this initiative, fuelling the next generation's ambitions and boosting Nuffield Health’s status as an apprenticeship employer of choice for young people. We’ll do it by continuing to uncover dynamic school-leaver pathways for career development, from entry-level all the way up to leadership.

Being a Nuffield Health apprentice

To develop its future leaders, we’ve built on Nuffield Health’s leadership capability framework, using regular alignment sessions led by Lifetime coaches to fully understand and embed the organisation’s purpose and values.