Job overview

We are looking for an exceptional Senior Apprenticeships and Widening Participation Co-ordinator to join the team.

Experienced in either Learning & Development, apprenticeships, widening participation, or a similar people-focused environment, you’ll lead the delivery and coordination of a wide range of initiatives, including supporting our apprenticeship schemes, organising work placements, school engagement activities and career events. 

The role involves offering pastoral support to new learners, supporting internal teams with apprenticeship recruitment and onboarding, and ensuring compliance with funding rules. Strong communication, coordination, and data management skills are essential, including experience with spreadsheets.

You’ll also lead on communications and marketing, developing promotional materials (flyers, intranet content, newsletters, and bulletins) to raise the profile of the programmes. Experience in this area, along with strong written communication skills, is essential.

You will be engaging with individuals at all levels, clinical and non-clinical, senior leaders and entry level students, so strong communication and stakeholder management skills are essential. You’ll need to be confident in influencing others and delivering a high standard of service to both internal and external stakeholders, as such, this role will suit someone who is highly organised, proactive and able to manage competing priorities.

Main duties of the job

This is a key role to enable the delivery of the Trust’s Apprenticeship and Widening participation programme of work that has the aim of broadening routes into healthcare and offering meaningful development opportunities and career pathways for our existing staff. The post holder will be responsible for all apprenticeship administration and marketing activities, ensuring that new and existing apprenticeships are promoted to the right audience and that the apprenticeship pages on the Learning Hub are up to date. The post holder will also play a key role liaising with our apprentices, line managers and apprenticeship providers ensuring that all are supported and communicated with appropriately and any issues are resolved in a timely manner. 

The successful candidate will also co-ordinate work experience and the schools’ liaison programme which will involve creating opportunities for local students interested in healthcare to learn about and gain exposure to the wide range of careers available. They will also organise and support a range of observerships, internships and placement schemes designed to create intermediate steps from work experience into employment.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a world-leading cancer centre. Our role is to offer our patients the best cancer care available anywhere in the world, and to continue to make a global contribution to finding better ways of diagnosing and treating cancer. We employ over 4,500 staff in a diverse range of careers including nursing, medical, science, radiography, pharmacy, occupational therapy, finance and administrative services. We have two hospitals – one in Chelsea, London, and one in Sutton, Surrey – as well as a Medical Daycare Unit in Kingston Hospital.

At The Royal Marsden, we deal with cancer every day, so we understand how valuable life is. When people entrust their lives to us, they have the right to demand the very best. That's why the pursuit of excellence lies at the heart of everything we do.

At the heart of the hospital is our dedicated team. We offer a stimulating and dynamic working environment, a wide range of staff benefits, learning and development opportunities and clear career pathways. There are opportunities to work flexibly across a range of areas and specialities and we welcome flexible working requests from point of hire to support employees work life balance. We are looking for employees who aspire to excellence, share our values and can play a crucial role in our on-going achievements.