Head Office Admin Apprentice (Data)
SUN HEALTHCARE LIMITED
South Yorkshire (S70 2LT)
Closes in 29 days (Friday 10 October 2025)
Posted on 10 September 2025
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Summary
This is a pivotal role to ensuring the smooth functioning within the office. This position requires excellent organisational and communication skills, as well as the ability to multitask and prioritise tasks effectively. The Clerical Officer will provide clerical support to various departments within the company.
- Wage
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£14,722.50 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Data technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Full-time (37.5 hours per week), exact working days and hours TBC
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 10 November 2025
- Duration
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1 year 4 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Answering and directing phone calls, taking messages, and fielding enquiries
- Meeting, greeting and assisting visitors, clients, and employees in a professional manner
- Managing correspondence and maintaining a well-organised filing system
- Assisting in scheduling appointments, meetings, and general office duties
- Coordinating office supplies and ensuring inventory levels are maintained
- Scanning, photocopying and producing name badges
- Assisting with various tasks, mainly data entry
- Assisting in organising and coordinating office events and meetings
- Maintaining office records and databases
- Assisting with basic bookkeeping tasks, such preparing service users monies and recording accurately on database and accountancy software
- Maintaining confidentiality and handling sensitive information with professionalism and integrity
Where you'll work
Cockerham Hall
17 Huddersfield Road
Barnsley
South Yorkshire
S70 2LT
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
NOWSKILLS LIMITED
Training course
Data technician (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Select and migrate data from already identified sources.
- Format and save datasets.
- Summarise, analyse and explain gathered data.
- Combine data sets from multiple sources and present in format appropriate to the task.
- Use tools and/or apply basic statistical methods to identify trends and patterns in data.
- Identify faults and cleanse data to improve data quality, for example identifying gaps, duplicate entries, outliers and unusual variances, including cross-checking across data elements or between data sources.
- Audit data results for maintenance of data quality, reviewing a data set once all sources are combined, to ensure accuracy, completeness, consistency and traceability from original data.
- Demonstrate the different ways of communicating meaning from data in line with audience requirements.
- Produce clear and consistent documentation of the data provided to others and of actions completed. Where appropriate or mandated by the working context, this documentation should use standard organisational templates.
- Store, manage and distribute data in compliance with organisational, national, sector specific standards and or legislation.
- Considers sustainability and ways to reduce impact. For example, using cloud storage, sharing links to files, avoid storing multiple versions of files, and reducing the use of physical handouts of documentation.
- Parse data against standard formats, and test and assess confidence in the data and its integrity.
- Operate collaboratively in a working context that accounts for, and takes advantage of, the roles, skills and activities of others, especially those interacting with the same data sets or working towards a common goal.
- Prioritise own activities within the context of the duties to be performed, taking account of any known or expected impact on others.
- Follows equity, diversity and inclusion policies in the organisation for a common goal.
- Demonstrate the ability to use different tools and methods to formulate and utilise effective prompts to research, apply, and evaluate data transformation techniques.
- Select and migrate data from already identified sources.
- Format and save datasets.
- Summarise, analyse and explain gathered data.
- Combine data sets from multiple sources and present in format appropriate to the task.
- Use tools and/or apply basic statistical methods to identify trends and patterns in data.
- Identify faults and cleanse data to improve data quality, for example identifying gaps, duplicate entries, outliers and unusual variances, including cross-checking across data elements or between data sources.
- Audit data results for maintenance of data quality, reviewing a data set once all sources are combined, to ensure accuracy, completeness, consistency and traceability from original data.
- Demonstrate the different ways of communicating meaning from data in line with audience requirements.
- Produce clear and consistent documentation of the data provided to others and of actions completed. Where appropriate or mandated by the working context, this documentation should use standard organisational templates.
- Store, manage and distribute data in compliance with organisational, national, sector specific standards and or legislation.
- Considers sustainability and ways to reduce impact. For example, using cloud storage, sharing links to files, avoid storing multiple versions of files, and reducing the use of physical handouts of documentation.
- Parse data against standard formats, and test and assess confidence in the data and its integrity.
- Operate collaboratively in a working context that accounts for, and takes advantage of, the roles, skills and activities of others, especially those interacting with the same data sets or working towards a common goal.
- Prioritise own activities within the context of the duties to be performed, taking account of any known or expected impact on others.
- Follows equity, diversity and inclusion policies in the organisation for a common goal.
- Demonstrate the ability to use different tools and methods to formulate and utilise effective prompts to research, apply, and evaluate data transformation techniques.
Training schedule
Data Technician Level 3.
More training information
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Requirements
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Work independently
Other requirements
Conduct themselves in a professional manner both in person and on the telephone. Ability to meet deadlines whilst at times working under pressure. Carry out tasks with accuracy and pay attention to detail. Good organizational skills. Work independently. Work as part of a broader team. Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
About this employer
At Sun Healthcare, our starting point is the individual. We focus on the needs and wishes of our clients to provide personalised support – helping hundreds of people across the Midlands and northern England to lead a fulfilling life. We specialise in nursing and residential care homes and community support services. We support adults with learning or physical disabilities, mental health needs, autism, elderly people and those with dementia.
After this apprenticeship
This role could grow into a full-time position after your apprenticeship ends.
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NOWSKILLS LIMITED
NOWSKILLS LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000341357.
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Closes in 29 days (Friday 10 October 2025)
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