This page provides current news about new Apprenticeships and opportunities in Bedfordshire, Luton & Milton Keynes:

National Apprenticeship Week 10th to 16th February

National Apprenticeship Week is the biggest week in the apprenticeships and skills calendar. It takes place from 10th to 16th February 2025. The week brings together everyone passionate about apprenticeships and skills to celebrate the value, benefit, and opportunity that they bring.

It is a week-long celebration that brings together businesses and apprentices across the country to shine a light on the positive impact that apprenticeships make to individuals, businesses and the wider economy.

This year’s theme is Skills for Life. This event encourages everyone to consider and celebrate how apprenticeships help individuals develop rewarding careers, and employers to develop a workforce with future-ready skills.

Visit the Skills for Health website to find out more about what’s going on nationally National Apprenticeship Week: 10th – 16th February 2025 – HASO

Highlights in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes include:

• 10th February – Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s Clinical Apprenticeships Recruitment Team have a stand at Luton Library
• 11th February – Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust have an Apprenticeship Roadshow 12:00pm – 4:00pm at The Poynt, Luton, and East London NHS Foundation Trust have an online webinar highlighting apprenticeship opportunities at ELFT and FAQs – to get involved and explore ELFT’s online content, please visit ELFT Learning Academy page
• 13th February – Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are at Luton 6^th Form College promoting apprenticeship opportunities
• 14th February – join Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust at the ‘We Love Apprenticeships’ Celebration Friday with stands in Bedford and Luton and Dunstable Hospital sites, 10:30am – 2:00pm, and a stand at the Harpur Centre in Bedford, 9:00am – 5:00pm, promoting apprenticeship opportunities

In addition, lots of partners have social media and online content for would be Apprentices to access. Watch this space for further information.

Health & Social Care Is One Of The Leading Industries For Apprenticeships

The Find Apprenticeships website names Health & Social Care as one of the top industries for people to consider undertaking an apprenticeship in. They put this down to the ‘wide spectrum’ of roles and opportunities that Health & Social Care covers.

Furthermore, with the drive for the future of NHS services to become more community and neighbourhood focused, more sustainable in impacting positively in the lives of the UK population and, ‘Greener’ and more environmentally sustainable i.e. more proactive in recruiting employees from the communities they serve, now is the time for you to think about what part you can play by having a rewarding career in Health & Social Care, which drives this change.

Find Apprenticeships main aim is to help budding apprentices connect with leading apprentice employers and apprenticeship training providers.

The full article can be found here:

Top Industries Offering Apprenticeships in the UK in 2024 (findapprenticeships.co.uk)

Passport To NHS Careers Course

As part of our More & Different Employment Pathways work that the ICB is doing in partnership with Breaking Barriers Innovations, we are pleased to announce that the third Passport To NHS Careers Course runs 24th March to 2nd April in Luton. The course is designed to dispel myths about working in the NHS and open people’s eyes about the 350+ different roles that are available.

The course was co-designed with a wide array of system partners and covers myth busting about working in the NHS and NHS careers, transferable skills that NHS employers are looking for, researching the 350+ roles that the NHS has to offer, presentations and demonstrations from NHS services, goal setting, effective job-searching, application and supporting statement writing, interview skills and next steps.

The course is suited to those who would love to work in the NHS, but don’t know where to start, those who’ve no idea of what they’d like to do, or for those who want to do a job that involves helping others, but not sure exactly in what capacity. For further information on the Passport To NHS Careers Course, please email: passport@lutonacl.ac.uk