National Management Trainee Scheme
Introduction
What is the National Management Trainee Scheme?
The Adult Social Care Graduate Management Trainee Scheme is being run by the National Skills Academy for Social Care, with the support of the Department of Health. It is the first programme of its kind devoted entirely to adult social care.
In 2010-2011 the Scheme will provide a year of management and leadership experience for 25 recent graduates, hosted by one of 25 employers from across England. Participants will learn through a variety of roles with their host organisation, developing the management and leadership skills necessary to achieve excellence in their careers. Host employers come from the private, voluntary and statutory sectors. Some are providing care services for a locality; some are national organisations with a policy and strategic remit. They are committed to social care in all its forms, so that there are choices for individuals ranging from support to live an ordinary life at home to full personal care in a registered setting.
The Scheme will also provide experience with other employers, allowing participants the opportunity to understand the rewards and challenges for leaders in different parts of the sector and different areas of the country. Participants will be brought together at intervals to develop and share their learning in theory and in practice.
Scheme participants will be expected to register for a vocational management and leadership qualification appropriate for social care.
In addition, every participant will be offered one-to-one coaching, which will extend for six months after the Scheme placement ends.
Why have a National Management Trainee Scheme?
This is a challenging and exciting time for adult social care in England. The ambition for social care is that people are able to live their own lives as they wish, confident that services are of high-quality, are safe and promote their own individual needs for independence, well-being and dignity.
Adult social care is expanding. The 1.5 million strong workforce is predicted to grow to an estimated 2.5 million by 2025 to help meet the needs and choices of people alongside the inevitable demands of an ageing population.
This growing workforce deserves support from skilled leaders and managers, providing the vision and purpose necessary to develop and inspire their staff.
To help meet these challenges and more, the National Skills Academy for Social Care, supported by the Department of Health, has introduced a National Graduate Management Trainee Scheme to attract some of the executives of the future into the adult social care workforce.
This Scheme is designed for current graduates from a range of disciplines who share our commitment to the best possible outcomes in social care and really want to start a career in social care management. The one-year programme aims to give every trainee and their host organisation a positive boost, raise the profile of social care and increase awareness of how rewarding a career in social care management can be.
What are the aims of the Scheme?
- To encourage and support graduates from a range of backgrounds into the adult social care sector
- To develop the graduates’ leadership and management skills through a range of planned learning opportunities throughout the year
- To Increase the range of well-qualified people developing management careers in social care
- To raise the status of social care as a career with opportunities for all skills and qualification levels.
How can you get involved in the scheme?
Applications for the Skills Academy’s National Management Trainee Scheme for Social Care for 2010/11 are now closed.
If you will be graduating from university next year and may be interested in the scheme, please join the MyNSA area of the website to receive more details.
If you are interested in working in social care visit www.socialcarecareers.co.uk to find out more.
If you are a social care employer and would like to host a graduate in 2010/11, please use the email below to register your interest.
National Management Trainee Scheme Video
The graduates meeting Phil Hope, Care Services Minister