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PMA Business Administration Apprenticeship – Cancer Care Contextualised
20 December 2022
Health Education England are working with the PMA to nationally deliver a bespoke Business Administration apprenticeship that is contextualised to the Patient Tracking List (PTL) /Cancer Care Navigator Workforce. Employees eligible within this workforce will have a variety of job titles, including but not limited to:
- Cancer Navigator/Cancer Patient Navigator
- MDT Coordinator/Manager
- Cancer Pathway Tracker/Coordinator
It is recognised that these roles are unique in the administrative workforce and therefore require bespoke training. As such, PMA will deliver a bespoke Business Administration apprenticeship that develops the PTL workforce in a more contextualised way compared to the standard offer. The programme will be delivered nationally to learners across a wide geography.
Delivery of the apprenticeship course will commence in January 2023. In order to establish cohorts of learners, we would be grateful if you could pre-enrol by completing this short questionnaire using this link: https://portal.pmauk.co.uk/Survey?guid=74A471C2-1386-494D-9315-8B84A5B91FBF
Overview of the apprenticeship
The curriculum will be delivered over a 15–18-month period and will incorporate all the required skills and knowledge a Level 3 Business administrator apprentice working in a PTL/Cancer Care navigator role will require.
During the programme, learners will be actively encouraged to work on a project that adds value to the healthcare setting and can be used after the apprenticeship as a service improvement tool.
Read about the knowledge, skills and behaviours in the related documents section below.
About the PMA
The PMA has a core team of full-time education specialists supported by a network of occupational facilitators who are all serving practitioners. The specialist education team is reinforced by an on-boarding and pastoral team, ensuring that apprenticeship learners are fully supported throughout the duration of their learning – both educationally and pastorally.
The PMA also has specialist cancer care facilitators to contextualise the learning programme and has an excellent track-record of co-design, ensuring this programme is fully aligned to meet the required role specification for the PTL/Cancer Care Navigator Workforce.
The PMA has developed a flexible, agile and coherent delivery model through a blended approach which embraces face to face delivery, 1:1 engagement, small cohorts and workshops all offered via virtual, remote delivery through MS Teams – with live demos, video, breakout sessions, polls, discussion groups and other interactive platforms such as NearPod. This ensures the learning interventions can be planned around the needs of the trust – and will be accommodated for the duration of the apprenticeship programme.
The PMA’s innovative delivery was commended during their recent Grade 2 Good Ofsted inspection with inspectors saying that “Tutors use a range of effective strategies to teach apprentices. They bring teaching to life by using appropriate examples from the workplace. Tutors use video clips, discussion, questioning, quizzes and sample papers. As a result, apprentices retain information in their long-term memory.”
The PMA has a 98% pass rate to date, partly the result of streamlined quality assurance processes aligned to all external quality agencies including Ofsted, The Education & Skills Funding Agency, City and Guilds/ILM and Matrix.
Over 65% of learners have achieved a distinction grade. The PMA have achieved these results through effective curriculum planning, delivering an outstanding learning experience and through working closely with the employers to meet the needs of everyone involved.