Care UK is celebrating National Apprenticeship Week by sharing success stories about team members who have undertaken apprenticeships.

National Apprenticeship Week, which takes place between 5 and 11 February 2024, has the theme Skills for Life.

Care UK offers apprenticeships across 16 areas, including IT and business systems, care home development, finance, facility management, care, recruitment, and food and hotel services. The organisation’s most recent apprenticeship is the Level 3 Adult Nursing Support Worker, which aims to ensures that team leaders or aspiring team leaders can better support registered nurses to deliver first class clinical care.

More than 620 Care UK team members are enrolled in an apprenticeship, with seven apprentices over the age of 60. In 2023, 132 team members passed their chosen apprenticeship programmes.

Toby Sturgess, home manager at Lonsdale Mews, completed his Level 5 Leader in Adult Care apprenticeship. “Completing my Level 5 really helped me to look at planning and managing around the home differently,” he said.

Suzannah Tullet, home manager at Scarlett House, joined Care UK in 2017 as a care assistant. “Within six months I was put forward for the team leader apprenticeship programme and I passed that within a year. I then become a senior team leader and, shortly after, a unit manager,” she said.

“I knew I wanted to continuing progressing, so I enrolled onto a future deputy programme, which I then completed alongside my Level 5 apprenticeship in care. After this I became a deputy manager at Care UK’s Winchcombe Place where I stayed for a year, before applying for my home manager position at Scarlett House.”