Our Staff Apprenticeships provide hands-on learning and career development opportunities for St Mary's employees. Staff are given the opportunity to continue earning while learning new skills by working directly with experienced professionals and undertaking accredited courses relevant to their work.
All apprenticeships are fully-funded by the University and successful apprentices graduate with a recognised qualification.
Applications for 2024 intake are open from 18th November 2024 and close on 6th December 2024
Take a look at the Virtual Roadshows to learn more about each apprenticeship.
How to apply for a Staff Apprenticeship
- Fill out the Application Form on DocuSign.
- You will need approval from your line manager as well as the Dean of Faculty/ Head of School or Director of Department. You are responsible for ensuring both levels of approval are completed before the application window closes. You can track this on your DocuSign account.
- Once all parties have signed, the L&PD Team and Apprenticeship Provider will review your application and will notify you of its outcome two weeks after the closing date for applications.
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Please refer to the Staff Apprenticeships Policy for:
- eligibility criteria
- responsibilites of the learner and their line manager.
Duration
15 months, plus three months End Point Assessment.
Who is it suitable for?
This Apprenticeship provides the breadth and depth of skills needed to perform administrative duties effectively and efficiently.
It focuses on adding value to the administrative function of a business by covering topics such as record keeping, document production, planning and organisation, stakeholder communication, and business fundamentals. Business Administration apprenticeships are ideal at developing professionalism, responsibility, and adaptability in the workplace meaning they are suitable for a wide range of individuals looking to develop their skills and careers.
What will I learn?
You will have the opportunity to learn:
- effective communication
- different types of organisations
- efficient use of IT
- record and document production
- interpersonal skills
- quality
- planning and organisation
- project management
- stakeholder engagement
- legislation and regulations
- policies and procedures.
How will I learn?
You will learn using a blended delivery model, including:
- monthly virtual group workshops
- 1-2-1 workshops.
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Duration
15 months, plus three months End Point Assessment.
Who is it suitable for?
This apprenticeship is ideal for someone in a first line management role, with operational and project responsibilities, or responsibility for managing a team to deliver a clearly defined outcome.
Other key responsibilities can include supporting, managing, and developing team members, managing projects, planning and monitoring workloads and resources, delivering operational plans, and resolving problems.
What will I learn?
As an apprentice, you will have the opportunity to learn:
- effective communication
- self-awareness and self-management
- building relationships
- negotiation and influencing
- effective leadership and management
- managing challenging conversations
- problem solving
- conflict management
- critical analysis and evaluation
- escalating issues
- operational management
- company vision
- how to set up and manage projects
- how to monitor budgets.
How will I learn?
You will learn using a blended delivery model, including:
- monthly virtual group workshops (three hours)
- monthly virtual one-to-one sessions (one hour)
- quarterly face-to-face half-day group workshops.
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Duration
15 months, plus three months End Point Assessment.
Who is it suitable for?
This Apprenticeship is suitable for employees who already work in a data role and want to develop their knowledge and skills to a higher or more technical and diverse level.
Learners should be using data to solve business problems as a significant proportion of their role and must be competent at using Microsoft Excel at an intermediate level.
What will I learn?
You will have the opportunity to learn:
- machine learning and artificial Intelligence
- data types, structure, and database design
- programming languages (Python or R& SQL)
- data manipulation with pandas
- working with arrays using NumPy
- customer requirements and user experience
- security, ethics, and legislation (including GDPR)
- statsitical principles and methodologies
- interpreting and collating qualitative and quatitative data
- advanced data analystics tools and techniques
- prescriptive and predictive analytics
- data mining, modelling, and forecasting
- Orange 3, regresssion models, and time series analysis
- advanced data visualisation techniques (Power BR or Tableau).
How will I learn?
You will learn using a blended delivery model, including:
- half day live online learning sessions every two weeks
- 121 meetings with your coach
- online data labs
- virtual learning portal and resources.
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Duration
15 months, plus three months End Point Assessment.
Who is it suitable for?
This Apprenticeship is designed for employees who want to gain a thorough understanding of all the processes and techniques that support robust project management.
You will need to be working within a project management environment, or within a role where you can be given ownership of specific elements of a project.
What will I learn?
You will have the opportunity to learn:
- tools and techniques to support robust project management
- preparation of a project business case and alignment with business objectives
- resource management through the full project lifecycle
- project monitoring and performance reporting
- change control processes
- identifying risks and managing issues
- stakeholder management and communication
- legislation, regulation, and codes of practice
- ethical procurement strategies and processes
- quality management and continuous improvement.
How will I learn?
You will learn using a blended delivery model, including:
- monthly online learning sessions
- 121 meetings with your coach
- study guides
- work-based projects.
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Duration
15 months, plus three months End Point Assessment.
Who is it suitable for?
This is suitable for is someone who manages teams and/or projects to achieve operational or departmental goals and objectives as part of the delivery of the organisation's strategy.
Key responsibilities may include creating and delivering operational plans, managing projects, leading, and managing teams, managing change, financial and resource management, talent management, coaching, and mentoring.
What will I learn?
As an apprentice, you will have the opportunity to learn:
- effective communication
- interpersonal skills
- building relationships
- approaches to managing conflict
- problem solving and decision making
- leading and managing multiple teams
- organisational strategy
- commercial awareness
- managing change
- project management tools
- risk analysis
- evaluation of projects
- the key elements of business finance
- budget setting and forecasting.
How will I learn?
You will learn using a blended delivery model, including:
- monthly virtual group workshops (three hours)
- monthly virtual one-to-one sessions (one hour)
- quarterly face-to-face half-day group workshops.
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Duration
13 months, plus three months End Point Assessment.
Who is it suitable for?
This is suitable for aspiring coaches or someone looking to develop existing coaching skills as a manager or leader.
What will I learn?
The course is divided into three modules:
- Module 1 - Understanding the skills, principles, and practice
- Module 2 - Undertaking coaching in the workplace
- Module 3 - Becoming a professional coach.
How will I learn?
You will learn using a blended delivery model, including:
- online workshops, tutorials, and webinars
- specific pre-recorded videos
- assignments
- ongoing bespoke progressive personal and professional development plan
- one to one virtual support sessions
- quarterly reviews
- workplace project.
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Duration
17 months, plus three to five months End Point Assessment
Who is it suitable for?
This is aimed at leaders who have senior management responsibility. These may be departmental managers ready to ascend to the next level of leadership, strategic innovators; leaders tasked with sculpting the future of departments, divisions or enterprises, directors aiming to refine and enhance their leadership prowess.
What will I learn?
Impact series workshops including:
- Lead with Impact
- Present Impact
- Team Impact
- Commercial Impact
- Personal Impact.
Elective series workshops covering:
- Strategy
- Finance
- Leadership
- Change
- Performance.
How will I learn?
You will learn using a blended delivery model, including:
- 5 face-to-face impact series workshops
- elective series workshops
- networking with other senior leaders from a range of businesses
- support from day one with a dedicated coach who will help you shape the programme based on your individual needs and your environment.
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