Senior Apprenticeships Development Manager
NHS England
Flexible with frequent attendance at an NHS base, SE1 8UG
Salary
£66,582 to £77,368
Contract
Fixed-Term
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
1 September 2026
1 days left
Job description
As a Senior Apprenticeships Development Manager, the post holder will work to support regional teams and systems to maximize the potential of apprenti...
Improving quality and outcomes
To support the development of national initiatives to maximize the opportunities to introduce new and different people to the NHS.
Developing guidance and other supportive approaches which will assist health and care employers to maximise the use of apprenticeships.
To work collaboratively across the NHS England matrix, including integrating the National Director's portfolio.
Operational
As a senior lead working internally and externally to deliver projects, initiatives and services to time and in a cost-effective way.
To support the identification and sharing of best practice in apprenticeships to support service improvement.
To operate in a highly political and sensitive environment.
Support the portfolio of programmes/projects in demonstrating value for money tracking, managing and delivering agreed benefits.
Provide specialist advice and prepare strategic reports and briefings for directors and stakeholders.
In depth analysis, interpretation and production of complex and multiple reports.
NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.
Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms -- enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.
In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.
If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Operational working knowledge of apprenticeships.
- Extensive knowledge of apprenticeships acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent.
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
Skills
Essential
- Highly developed communication skills with the capability to analyse, review and make sense of highly complex, sensitive or contentious information across a diverse range of subjects relevant to post portfolio.
- Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public.
- Needs to have a thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships both in terms of day-to-day working practices, but also in relation to management systems.
- Self-awareness in teams of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness.
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
18 August 2026
Last checked
20 August 2026
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