Sector Based Work Academies
Sector-based work academies are a way to provide direct employment into the care sector. The scheme can help those who are ready to work, and receiving benefits, to secure employment. They are designed to help care employers meet immediate and future recruitment needs as well as recruiting a workforce with the right skills. Please return to this website later this year for details of when our next academy will be running. A sector-based work academy can last up to six weeks and include the following:
- Pre-employment training, including CV writing, interview techniques and the workplace environment
- Sector-based skills – depending on the available job roles, this will be training based around the organisation
Step Into Health
Joined Up Care Derbyshire is a supporter of the Step into Health programme which works to actively promote the NHS as an ideal employer to members of the Armed Forces community. The Step into Health programme connects candidates from across the Armed Forces community with employers and new opportunities in the NHS.
Step into Health provides support and guidance for NHS organisations to review and enhance recruitment practices, so they are able to attract members of the Armed Forces community, benefit from the transferable skills and values they bring to the workforce and showcase the NHS as the employer of choice.
See the NHS Employers website for more information.
Local colleges
A range of specialist courses are run by further education and higher education institutions in Derby and Derbyshire that help prepare students for careers in health and social care.
Supporting care leavers into the workplace
The health and care system in Derby and Derbyshire is one of the first in the country to have all local organisations signed up to a scheme to support young people leaving care to access a career path in the sector.
Partner organisations in the Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care System (ICS) have all signed up to the programme, known as the Care Leaver Covenant, which helps care leavers aged 16-25 to access employment, education and training opportunities and support their independence.
The offer to people leaving care in the city and county is now set out on the Care Leaver Covenant website.
