Start your career in digital

Is a digital apprenticeship right for you?

Do you like finding the solutions to problems?
Do you sometimes challenge accepted ideas?
Do you like following a logical path?
Do you see other ways of doing things?
Do you want to help other people?

If you answered yes to the above the NHS Digital Apprenticeship may be a good career choice for you. We recommend you sign up for a short free online taster course that will hone your digital infrastructure and data analysis skills and tell you more about the culture of the NHS.

What does the apprenticeship involve?

As an NHS Digital Apprentice, you develop your skills while at work and be given off-the-job time to study for a digital apprenticeship qualification, with options all the way up to degree level. What is more, you will earn a wage but you will not pay any university tuition fees.

The NHS has been helping people for over seventy years and there have been many changes along the way, and now it is transforming again as digital technologies and communications enhance the services it provides.

To make sure the NHS can support digital innovation it needs new recruits who are passionate about data, digital and technology to help deliver the extraordinary benefits that digital transformation can bring to staff, patients and communities.

The NHS Digital Transformation

Digital transformation is already helping people access and benefit from NHS services; there are lots of examples and here are just a few:

online consultations
robots helping surgeons perform operations
digital devices enabling patients to monitor and manage illness at home
ambulance staff using tablet technology to better brief clinical teams waiting at hospitals.

Over the next few years, the pace of this digital transformation is going to accelerate and to achieve its digital future the NHS needs a highly skilled digital work force to develop and maintain a secure robust digital infrastructure and use advanced data analytics to drive innovation.