Medical Administration Apprenticeships
By combining apprenticeships with Mediterm qualifications, Damar have created specialist medical administration pathways, giving apprentices the opportunity learn the knowledge, skills and behaviours required of administrators working in healthcare.
The pathway is suitable for new recruits and existing colleagues in roles such as ward clerk, administrator, medical secretary, medical receptionist and PA.
You can also find out more about other apprenticeships which are beneficial to NHS trusts and healthcare settings.
Benefits to your business
Medical administration apprenticeships have significant benefits for NHS Trusts and other healthcare settings. For example, apprentices can:
- Improve customer service and patient care
- Increase staff loyalty and retention
- Increase capacity of medical staff by reducing their admin duties
- Complete projects to drive real service improvements
- Inject fresh ideas and new ways of working.
The Damar Difference
Our medical administration apprenticeships have many unique features which maximise the benefits of apprenticeship training for healthcare organisations:
- We have extensive experience in working with healthcare organisations, including the NHS
- We are able to match each apprentice with the most relevant coaches and subject specialists to help them achieve their full potential
- We offer an account managed service, with employers able to view and track the progress of all of their apprentices
- We provide the opportunity for apprentices to engage with each other, through the use of group workshops and discussion forums.
“Our apprentice’s project has been successfully adapted and embedded as a new way of working across the acute site. The work shehas done is something we’ve been trying to achieve for two years. I look forward to the improvements her future projects will bring.”
Kate Davenport
Directorate Manager – Discharge and Acute Therapies
Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Foundation Trust
Apprenticeship delivery
There are two options for apprentices, depending on their age and experience:
- A Level 2 Administration Assistant Apprenticeship with a Level 1 Mediterm Introductory course
- A Level 3 Business administrator Apprenticeship with a Level 2 Mediterm Award.
Both levels are delivered through:
- Group coaching sessions
- Individual online learning activity
- One-to-one coaching visits
- Review meetings.
The Mediterm courses cover the basics of medical terminology such as:
- Major bones of the body
- Common roots, prefixes and suffixes
- Pharmaceutical abbreviations
- Classification of drugs
- Anatomy and physiology of the body systems
- Instruments and investigations
- Medical specialities and personnel
- Medical abbreviations
- Blood tests.
Transform your healthcare organisation with Damar
Medical administration apprenticeships can provide your teams with the much-needed admin support they require. As a specialist provider of 45 years with extensive experience in the healthcare sector, our expert team can guide you through the process and ensure your apprentices have a meaningful impact on your organisation.
Let Damar support you on your apprenticeship journey – get in touch with us for more information and assistance.
Medical administration apprenticeship FAQs
We have worked with over 100 NHS trusts and other healthcare organisations across England, including The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Trust, and Great Western Hospitals Trust.
We have regular starts on both our level 2 and 3 admin programmes – see our apprenticeship schedule. Apprentices in any of the cohorts listed can choose to specialise in the medical pathway.
If we haven’t answered your question above, have a read of our employer FAQs for more information.
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