Level 3 Community Health and Wellbeing Apprenticeship

The Community Health and Wellbeing Apprenticeship

The Community Health and Wellbeing Worker Level 3 Apprenticeship offers a unique opportunity to develop people who have a passion for supporting Community Health and Wellbeing.

This Apprenticeship can be used as gateway into employment within your service, enabling you to widen participation and lower traditional recruitment barriers such as experience and/or educational attainment.  The apprenticeship may also be used to support colleagues that already work for you to further develop their skills, knowledge and behaviours in Community Health and Wellbeing.

The apprenticeship is typically 12-15 months long and is in most cases fully funded through either an employer levy (larger employers) or through levy gifting (smaller employers).  As with all government backed apprenticeships, there is a requirement to be in paid employment for 30 hours per week and the employer must provide 6 hours per week for ‘off the job training’.  Typically, the modules/units cover:

  • How to help communities to build local resilience and identify strengths, capacity and resources that support their health and wellbeing
  • How to provide informed advice about local services and projects that support health and wellbeing
  • Using preventative approaches to promote the health and wellbeing of individuals, groups and communities, addressing the wider determinants of health and causes of ill health
  • Applying behavioural science to help people find practical solutions for better health and wellbeing

For further information, please contact Chris Sharp, Workforce Development Manager – Y&H, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) chris.sharp@dhsc.gov.uk.

Find below presentations from the launch of the level 3 apprenticeship.

 

L3 CHWW Apprenticeship Launch in Y&H

On the 18th of January 2022, the Level 3 Community Health & Wellbeing Worker Apprenticeship was launched in Yorkshire and Humber at a virtual open day.

Find below the recording for the event and the associated slides.


Document Title Publication Date
Community Health and Wellbeing Worker - Employers Guide 01 April 2023