Level 1
Learn + Practise
Can you use what you’re learning?
You practise with guidance on tasks that look like real work. Mistakes are part of it. You are a learner here, and that is the point.
Levels 1 and 2
Learning is only the beginning.
The Apprenticeship is one journey with two levels. You learn by doing, on a real problem, and you finish with something you can show and explain.
At a glance
What you need to know before you begin.
- Levels 1 and 2. One journey, two questions.
- Nurses, midwives, healthcare workers and healthcare professionals who can already use Foundation-level skills, whether from the Foundation or from experience.
- Foundation-level skills and judgement, and one real problem from your own ward, clinic, community or service.
- Level 1: practise with guidance on tasks that look like real work. Level 2: build something for one real problem and show what it does. You move on when you can answer each level’s question with your own work.
- Not yet confirmed. Express your interest and we will tell you as soon as they are.
- Work you can show and explain: a project, prototype, research output, workflow, resource, creative work, case study or portfolio. Completion is recognised by the Academy. It is not accreditation or a qualification.
- It is learning, not employment. You work with guidance and it does not hand you clinical responsibility.
- The Fellowship is a future step. It is not open yet and has no dates to share.
- Express your interest. Not sure you are at this level yet? Start with the Foundation.
Two levels, one journey
Can you use it? Then: what can you show?
Each level answers one honest question. You move on when you can answer it in your own words, with your own work.
Level 2
Build + Prove
What can you show?
You take one real problem and build something for it. Then you show what it does, what you learned and what you would change.
The core rule
One person. One skill. One project. One outcome.
Depth beats breadth. One thing done properly teaches more than five things half done.
Learner and apprentice
You are learning and working at the same time.
An apprentice is not only a student. You work on a real problem or project with appropriate guidance and support around you. It is learning, not employment, and it does not hand you clinical responsibility.
Start with a real problem
Something you have seen in a ward, clinic, community or service. Not a made-up exercise.
Work with guidance
You are not left to figure it out alone. Never walk alone applies here too.
Build small, test early
Try something, see what happens, improve it. That loop is the skill.
Explain your thinking
Being able to say why you did it that way matters as much as the thing itself.
What proof can look like
Different people finish with different evidence.
Nobody produces all of these. Your evidence depends on your problem, your direction and your setting. These are examples of what it might be.
- A project you built
- A prototype you tested
- A research output
- A workflow you improved
- A resource other people can use
- Creative or communication work
- A case study
- A portfolio of small pieces
Taking part and finishing
This tells someone you were there and you completed the work set.
Proof of work
This is the thing you built and can explain. It is not accreditation, and we do not describe it as a qualification.
After Level 2
Fellowship is the next step we are working towards.
Apply your work more widely, contribute to others and lead. It does not exist yet and has no dates, structure or entry rules to share.
Start where you are
Bring one real problem.
Tell us you are interested and we will let you know when Apprenticeship places are confirmed.