Diane Hooper

The Chartered Manager Health and Social Care Degree Apprenticeship supports Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust’s mission to fully integrate and embed a transformed health and social care service, where patients experience improved continuity of safe and reliable care in the community they live.

We can see our leaders of the future emerging in our present cohort of degree apprenticeship participants who are talking and thinking differently; embracing their new knowledge of leadership and management theory; applying their learning straight away in the workplace; and contributing towards transforming our health and social care systems - which is exciting and rewarding.

Our degree apprentices support our workforce strategy in terms of building capability and harnessing the management of talent in the organisation by continuing to develop, invest and retain our future leaders.

Working with Manchester Met

Communication with Manchester Metropolitan University is excellent. Nothing is too much trouble. Members of the apprenticeship unit visited our workplace on several occasions to meet with staff and provide contextualised information about the apprenticeship, answering questions staff had. The apprenticeship team are flexible, supportive, enthusiastic, and forward-thinking. They are a pleasure to work with.