Student Nurse Associate Apprenticeship
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Lincolnshire (LN2 5QY)
Closes in 15 days (Wednesday 3 December 2025)
Posted on 17 November 2025
Contents
Summary
Are you passionate about making a difference in your community? Do you want to start a rewarding career in healthcare while earning and learning? Our Student Nurse Associate Apprenticeship is your opportunity to take the first step toward becoming a qualified Nurse Associate – right here in Lincolnshire.
- Wage
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Competitive
Competitive wage offered
- Training course
- Nursing associate (NMC 2018) (level 5)
- Hours
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Shifts, may work evenings and weekends.
38 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 16 February 2026
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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15
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
- Deliver person-centred care under the supervision of a Registered Nurse.
- Learn essential clinical skills, from taking observations to supporting complex care.
- Rotate through placements to build a broad understanding of healthcare.
- Develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence to become a Nurse Associate.
Where you'll work
Lincoln County Hospital
Greetwell Road
Lincoln
Lincolnshire
LN2 5QY
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN
Training course
Nursing associate (NMC 2018) (level 5)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Act in accordance with the Code: Professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses, midwives and nursing associates (NMC, 2018), and fulfil all registration requirements
- Keep complete, clear, accurate and timely records
- Recognise and report any factors that may adversely impact safe and effective care provision
- Take responsibility for continuous self-reflection, seeking and responding to support and feedback to develop professional knowledge and skills
- Safely demonstrate evidence-based practice in all skills and procedures required for entry to the register: Standards of proficiency for nursing associates Annex A & B (NMC 2018)
- Act as an ambassador for their profession and promote public confidence in health and care services
- Communicate effectively using a range of skills and strategies with colleagues and people at all stages of life and with a range of mental, physical, cognitive and behavioural health challenges
- Recognise signs of vulnerability in self or colleagues and the action required to minimise risks to health
- Develop, manage and maintain appropriate relationships with people, their families, carers and colleagues
- Provide, promote, and where appropriate advocate for, non-discriminatory, person-centred and sensitive care at all times, reflecting on people’s values and beliefs, diverse backgrounds, cultural characteristics, language requirements, needs and preferences, taking account of any need for adjustments
- Report any situations, behaviours or errors that could result in poor care outcomes
- Challenge or report discriminatory behaviour
- Apply the aims and principles of health promotion, protection and improvement and the prevention of ill health when engaging with people
- Promote preventive health behaviours and provide information to support people to make informed choices to improve their mental, physical, behavioural health and wellbeing
- Identify people who are eligible for health screening
- Promote health and prevent ill health by understanding the evidence base for immunisation, vaccination and herd immunity
- Protect health through understanding and applying the principles of infection prevention and control, including communicable disease surveillance and antimicrobial stewardship and resistance
- Apply knowledge, communication and relationship management skills required to provide people, families and carers with accurate information that meets their needs before, during and after a range of interventions
- Recognise when capacity has changed recognise and how a person’s capacity affects their ability to make decisions about their own care and to give or withhold consent
- Recognise people at risk of abuse, self-harm and/or suicidal ideation and the situations that may put them and others at risk
- Monitor the effectiveness of care in partnership with people, families and carers, documenting progress and reporting outcomes
- Take personal responsibility to ensure that relevant information is shared according to local policy and appropriate immediate action is taken to provide adequate safeguarding and that concerns are escalated
- Work in partnership with people, to encourage shared decision making, in order to support individuals, their families and carers to manage their own care when appropriate
- Perform a range of nursing procedures and manage devices, to meet people’s need for safe, effective and person-centred care
- Meet people’s needs for safety, dignity, privacy, comfort and sleep
- Meet people’s needs related to nutrition, hydration and bladder and bowel health
- Meet people’s needs related to mobility, hygiene, oral care, wound care and skin integrity
- Support people with commonly encountered symptoms including anxiety, confusion, discomfort and pain
- Give information and support to people who are dying, their families and the bereaved and provide care to the deceased
- Recognise when a person’s condition has improved or deteriorated by undertaking health monitoring, interpreting, promptly responding, sharing findings and escalating as needed
- Act in line with any end of life decisions and orders, organ and tissue donation protocols, infection protocols, advanced planning decisions, living wills and lasting powers of attorney for health
- Work collaboratively and in partnership with professionals from different agencies in interdisciplinary teams
- Maintain safe work and care environments
- Act in line with local and national organisational frameworks, legislation and regulations to report risks, and implement actions as instructed, following up and escalating as required
- Accurately undertake risk assessments, using contemporary assessment tools
- Respond to and escalate potential hazards that may affect the safety of people
- Participate in data collection to support audit activity, and contribute to the implementation of quality improvement strategies
- Prioritise and manage own workload, and recognise where elements of care can safely be delegated to other colleagues, carers and family members
- Recognise when people need help to facilitate equitable access to care, support and escalate concerns appropriately
- Support and motivate other members of the care team and interact confidently with them
- Monitor and review the quality of care delivered, providing challenge and constructive feedback when an aspect of care has been delegated to others
- Support, supervise and act as a role model to nursing associate students, health care support workers and those new to care roles, review the quality of the care they provide, promoting reflection and providing constructive feedback
- Contribute to team reflection activities to promote improvements in practice and services
- Access, input, and apply information and data using a range of methods including digital technologies, and share appropriately within interdisciplinary teams
- Act in accordance with the Code: Professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses, midwives and nursing associates (NMC, 2018), and fulfil all registration requirements
- Keep complete, clear, accurate and timely records
- Recognise and report any factors that may adversely impact safe and effective care provision
- Take responsibility for continuous self-reflection, seeking and responding to support and feedback to develop professional knowledge and skills
- Safely demonstrate evidence-based practice in all skills and procedures required for entry to the register: Standards of proficiency for nursing associates Annex A & B (NMC 2018)
- Act as an ambassador for their profession and promote public confidence in health and care services
- Communicate effectively using a range of skills and strategies with colleagues and people at all stages of life and with a range of mental, physical, cognitive and behavioural health challenges
- Recognise signs of vulnerability in self or colleagues and the action required to minimise risks to health
- Develop, manage and maintain appropriate relationships with people, their families, carers and colleagues
- Provide, promote, and where appropriate advocate for, non-discriminatory, person-centred and sensitive care at all times, reflecting on people’s values and beliefs, diverse backgrounds, cultural characteristics, language requirements, needs and preferences, taking account of any need for adjustments
- Report any situations, behaviours or errors that could result in poor care outcomes
- Challenge or report discriminatory behaviour
- Apply the aims and principles of health promotion, protection and improvement and the prevention of ill health when engaging with people
- Promote preventive health behaviours and provide information to support people to make informed choices to improve their mental, physical, behavioural health and wellbeing
- Identify people who are eligible for health screening
- Promote health and prevent ill health by understanding the evidence base for immunisation, vaccination and herd immunity
- Protect health through understanding and applying the principles of infection prevention and control, including communicable disease surveillance and antimicrobial stewardship and resistance
- Apply knowledge, communication and relationship management skills required to provide people, families and carers with accurate information that meets their needs before, during and after a range of interventions
- Recognise when capacity has changed recognise and how a person’s capacity affects their ability to make decisions about their own care and to give or withhold consent
- Recognise people at risk of abuse, self-harm and/or suicidal ideation and the situations that may put them and others at risk
- Monitor the effectiveness of care in partnership with people, families and carers, documenting progress and reporting outcomes
- Take personal responsibility to ensure that relevant information is shared according to local policy and appropriate immediate action is taken to provide adequate safeguarding and that concerns are escalated
- Work in partnership with people, to encourage shared decision making, in order to support individuals, their families and carers to manage their own care when appropriate
- Perform a range of nursing procedures and manage devices, to meet people’s need for safe, effective and person-centred care
- Meet people’s needs for safety, dignity, privacy, comfort and sleep
- Meet people’s needs related to nutrition, hydration and bladder and bowel health
- Meet people’s needs related to mobility, hygiene, oral care, wound care and skin integrity
- Support people with commonly encountered symptoms including anxiety, confusion, discomfort and pain
- Give information and support to people who are dying, their families and the bereaved and provide care to the deceased
- Recognise when a person’s condition has improved or deteriorated by undertaking health monitoring, interpreting, promptly responding, sharing findings and escalating as needed
- Act in line with any end of life decisions and orders, organ and tissue donation protocols, infection protocols, advanced planning decisions, living wills and lasting powers of attorney for health
- Work collaboratively and in partnership with professionals from different agencies in interdisciplinary teams
- Maintain safe work and care environments
- Act in line with local and national organisational frameworks, legislation and regulations to report risks, and implement actions as instructed, following up and escalating as required
- Accurately undertake risk assessments, using contemporary assessment tools
- Respond to and escalate potential hazards that may affect the safety of people
- Participate in data collection to support audit activity, and contribute to the implementation of quality improvement strategies
- Prioritise and manage own workload, and recognise where elements of care can safely be delegated to other colleagues, carers and family members
- Recognise when people need help to facilitate equitable access to care, support and escalate concerns appropriately
- Support and motivate other members of the care team and interact confidently with them
- Monitor and review the quality of care delivered, providing challenge and constructive feedback when an aspect of care has been delegated to others
- Support, supervise and act as a role model to nursing associate students, health care support workers and those new to care roles, review the quality of the care they provide, promoting reflection and providing constructive feedback
- Contribute to team reflection activities to promote improvements in practice and services
- Access, input, and apply information and data using a range of methods including digital technologies, and share appropriately within interdisciplinary teams
Training schedule
Hospital or community settings across Lincolnshire
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade C)
- Maths (grade C)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- Non judgemental
Other requirements
DBS check Willingness to travel for placements and study sessions Please note: We are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role
About this employer
ULHT is one of the largest hospital trusts in the country providing a comprehensive range of hospital based medical, surgical, paediatric, obstetric and gynaecological services to over 800,000 people across the county of Lincolnshire.
Company benefits
NHS Holidays NHS Pension Help with buying home electronics Staff lottery Salary finance Childcare Support Discounts Cycle to Work Scheme Car lease options Learning & Development Apprenticeships Clinical education Leadership & coaching
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
After apprenticeship completion and a 14-month consolidation period, you will also be able to apply for the RNDA Top-Up programme, where you will develop as a Registered Nurse.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000000976.
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Closes in 15 days (Wednesday 3 December 2025)
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