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We've got a long history in North Bristol Trust of vocational education and training people in all of our support work and roles to the right level for the roles they're doing.
It made sense to align that to the higher level Apprenticeship so that people have really got the competence and confidence to deliver those specialist skills.
Before I started the Apprenticeship, I was a health care assistant level two.
I then did my level three Apprenticeship that made me become a senior healthcare assistant.
The opportunity became available and I took my training assistant practitioner which I'm now doing for my higher Apprenticeship.
I became an apprentice because I wanted to get further in my career, learn more skills and become more advanced in what I do.
It's very enjoyable to work in the healthcare sector. I would say it's very rewarding; you get to build relationships not only with your colleagues but with the patients.
You can see that you really do help make a difference.
I would recommend an Apprenticeship to my peer group because I think it's a good way for people to learn skills not only on the job but at college.
The balance of both, I think, is a really good way of learning.
Having an apprentice definitely provides opportunities for other members of the team to be able to take on new skills and advance practices
because they are taking over the roles that registered nurses have historically had to fulfil.
We in North Bristol Trust take on apprentices because we want to develop our workforce development strategy that encompasses our future workforce
and we want to work with schools and encourage young people into our workforce so that we can focus on developing people at every level.