NHS England Choices College Hartlepool

🚨MORE VACANCIES🚨

We are recruiting for further staff across the college

Please see links below and share with anyone you know looking for an exciting opportunity in SEN education

College Coordinator (Stanmore/Royal Free) - https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/working-for/ #!/job/v6561143 - Closes 03/09/2024



College Coordinator (Royal Free) – https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/working-for/ #!/job/v6560514 - Closes 03/09/2024



Learning Support Assistant (Sheffield/Lincoln) – https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/working-for/ #!/job/v6559630 - Closes 03/09/2024



Learning Support Assistant (North) – https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/working-for/ #!/job/v6560466 - Closes 03/09/2024



Area Manager (Southampton) - https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/working-for/ #!/job/v6560455 - Closes 03/09/2024

If you require any further information please contact [email protected]

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Say hello to our new cohort! 👋

Welcome NHS England Choices College Gateshead!

Please give them a follow, we're excited to see updates from their brand new cohort starting September 2024 🌟

NHS England Choices College Gateshead A Supported Internships course is a programme of education and work place learning for young people with a Learning Disability and/ or Autism to become work ready and gain valuable employability skills.

We partner with NHS healthcare settings, local organisations and private businesses to create supported work environments to provide real work experience for our Interns.

Our support is tailored to each Intern, based on their skills and interests.
Interns spend 1 year learning employability skills and attend up to three, 12-week placements with a Choices College Partner.

Choices College has been supporting Interns for over 15 years. These are our values:

Person-centred - considering the individual needs of all Choices College stakeholders to enable our students get the best start to their working careers.
Outcome Focused - creating positive outcomes for the interns and business partners.
Quality driven - ensuring that we maintain a high standard of support and education.
Excellence - being the best in our field and transforming societal expectations of people with additional needs.


The College is supported by NHS England as part of the ongoing commitment to improving employment outcomes for vulnerable groups

‼️ We are recruiting! ‼️

Please see links below for our current vacancies

Functional Skills Tutor (Portsmouth and Southampton) - https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/working-for/ #!/job/v6558682 – Closing 27/08/2024

Functional Skills Tutor (Tees) - https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/working-for/ #!/job/v6558907– Closing 30/08/2024

Functional Skills Tutor (North) - https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/working-for/ #!/job/v6558834 – Closing date 01/09/2024

College Coordinator (Portsmouth) - https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/working-for/ #!/job/v6561365– Closing date 02/09/2024

Please share with anyone you know who is looking for a new opportunity in SEN

Any further queries or information please contact [email protected]

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NHS England Choices College MR and the entire college are all bursting with pride!

Congratulations Lia you are a star 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

What an inspiration to all our upcoming new interns

🌟 Hero Of The Month🌟

It is a pleasure to announce that our for July was Lia!

Lia first started at on a placement from NHS England Choices College MR, and has since become one of our most valuable team members! With an amazing work ethic and her helpful personality, she is constantly being praised by her colleagues.

Thank you for all of your hard work, Lia! We appreciate you💙

thank you Inclusion North for this Easy Read for understanding the difference between Rioting and Peaceful Protesting

How wonderful 🌟💕

Incredible news from Darlington cohort!

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Huge congratulations to Molly on her new role as a ward hostess! You’ve worked so hard for this opportunity!

Your positive attitude and caring nature will surely make a difference in the lives of patients and their families.

Best of luck in your new role! 🎉👏

Well, tomorrow is going to be another fantastic Wednesday, as it sees our Hartlepool 2023/2024 graduate! A small ceremony held in their classroom, followed by a leavers lunch at Sambuca will be enjoyed by all. Please join me in congratulating our fabulous interns, as the y close one door, and open another! A variety of progression routes which include paid employment, voluntary work, & further education. Good luck to all, you have been terrific, no work tomorrow guys, time to relax, socialise and give yourselves a big pat on the back!!

***Positive Parent Feedback!***

Always so nice to read emails and messages from our parents, interns and mentors.
This is why we do what we do!!

"I can never begin to thank Natalie and yourself for everything you have both done for Robert. He has gone from a teenager with very little self confidence. To a genuine honest and reliable gentleman who has taken his job roles so seriously and quite honestly I believe has flown with it. The difference in Robert has quite honestly blown me away! The feedback I have had from people that have seen him in his workplace, people he wouldn't know has been immense. I never ever thought I would see the day that he could work independently but look at him go!

Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!!

Love Rhian xx"

Have a lovely celebration York cohort!

We had an amazing afternoon at Port Of Call sunderland this afternoon. Family and mentors came to support our Interns and we had a fantastic celebration.

Well done to you all. We are so proud of you all.

More photos to follow.

Thank you to port of call for the beautiful room hire. It was so special.

Brilliant work from our Stage 1 student!
We are so glad you have enjoyed your experience, and we look forward to working with more young people at Priory Woods School and Arts College
Thank you to South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for continuing to offer valuable work experience to young people with SEN
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🥳 Our end of year celebrations continue 🥳

Our North Tyneside cohort had a well deserved end of year social to toast their amazing achievements over their internship

Sam, Hamna and Steph have thoroughly enjoyed watching you all grow this year, and on behalf of everyone at Choices College congratulations and good luck for the future!

🥳🎓It's graduation season!🎓🥳

Kicking off the celebrations, congratulations to the Newcastle cohort celebrating their graduation yesterday, hosted by Sir Jim Mackey CEO

Lorna and Kelly are very proud of you all, and on behalf of us all at Choices College, well done and good luck in your future endeavours!

We couldn’t be prouder to see one of our interns from 2018-19 cohort still continuing to thrive and make a difference in his employment!
Massive well done Craig, you are an inspiration to staff and students at Choices College 🌟
NHS England Choices College Stockton

Facilities Assistant, Craig Kirby recently received some wonderful feedback from Advanced Practitioner Sonographer, Angela Proudlock.

Angela said “I just want to praise a member of your team. A young man called Craig was cleaning in the Ultrasound department one evening; he did a brilliant job and was also very polite. He never stopped the whole time he was in the department.”

Well done Craig! 👏

What a way to finish Learning Disability week with an Intern from Northumberland securing employment as a catering assistant. A huge congratulations We are over the moon for him as he has worked so hard! 👏⭐️

Our learners are really the icing on the cake when it comes to work ethic, professionalism and giving things a go.
They are a credit to themselves!

Look at our successful learners from NHS England Choices College Northumberland. They have been working in various sectors including NHS Trusts and Private sectors in Retail, Warehousing, Portering, Pick and Pack, Hospitality this year and have loved it.

Are you looking to be seen? Come and see what Choices College is all about.

Todays theme for learning disability week is "Do you include me?"
Our learners are included at the forefront of what we do here at Choices College.
We work with NHS Trusts and private businesses to offer a person centred approach for our learners to access their work placements.

Our learners are an integral part of the team in their placements and have a fantastic work ethic. Why wouldn't you include them in your business.

Todays theme in learning disability week is "do you hear me?"
Durham we hear you loud and clear. Our interns are celebrating their success on their programme and a fine job of it they're doing!

This week is Learning Disability Week.

The theme of the week is:

Monday 17 June: "Do you see me?"
Tuesday 18 June: "Do you understand me?"
Wednesday 19 June: "Will you work with me?"
Thursday 20 June: "Do you hear me?"
Friday 21 June: "Do you include me?"
Saturday 22 June: "Will you support me?"

We certainly do all of the above with our learners and shout about them every day not just as part of learning disability week.

Go team Choices College!

Look at our successful learners from NHS England Choices College Northumberland. They have been working in various sectors including NHS Trusts and Private sectors in Retail, Warehousing, Portering, Pick and Pack, Hospitality this year and have loved it.

Are you looking to be seen? Come and see what Choices College is all about.

This week is learning disability week and we are shouting from the roof tops about our learners.

Choices College are a specialised College helping young adults with learning difficulties, disabilities and autism find employment and gain the skills to help be employment ready.

We are so proud of all our learners and their achievements.

📢 New statistics on Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans for 2024 are now available! Key highlights include:

* 575,963 children and young people in England now have an EHC plan, a significant increase of 11.4% from the previous year.
* 84,400 new plans have been issued (which started during 2023).
* Despite the rising numbers, local authority timescales have improved slightly, with 50.3% of plans issued within 20 weeks.

For a deeper dive into the data and what it means for our sector, check out the full report: EHC Plans 2024.

View the full report: https://ow.ly/8Wlo50ShSNQ



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Furbd is a partnership working to reduce digital poverty. Unwanted devices and IT equipment are collected, refurbished and given to those people most in need within the community.

🌟 Our intern is gaining further IT experience at Furbd and bringing his own wealth of knowledge to assist the team. Today he was ‘increasing the recovery partition to install a security update’ on this computer.

It's National Supported Internship Day!

One of our most exciting recent placement partnerships is with Asda - here we have our NHS England Choices College Hartlepool interns with one of the Asda porter staff, Ray.

Ray tells us, he has felt supported by Choices College during his first experience of being a student mentor and how his intern has really become a part of the porter team and already being a great help to them

Given the correct support and guidance, our interns can become a vital member of the workforce. We are really grateful to Ray and the rest of the team at Asda Peterlee for giving our intern such a fantastic experience

Want to find out more about how Supported Internships could help you? https://tinyurl.com/3nhnb8ad

It's National Supported Internship Day!

At Barnard Grove Primary School in Hartlepool, their strapline ‘STARS IN THE MAKING‘ shares our college belief that young people can all be the best they want to be.

To demonstrate this, providing a work experience placement to our intern within school sends a clear message to all pupils that they should be ambitious about their future careers. Additionally we hope seeing our intern supported to progress in their placement inspires other children with in the school community.

Supported Internships have a transformative effect on the interns who take part. They offer real work experience combined with training in employability and independent living skills delivered in a business setting to help young people make successful transitions to productive adult life

If you would be interested in offering a young person a work experience placement opportunity, please contact [email protected]

Wow! What a fantastic turn out for our interns’ first mock interview!
Over the past couple of weeks, they have been preparing for interviews, learning about appropriate clothing, how to give a good first impression, types of questions they may be asked and relative questions they could be asking.
Today, all interns made a massive effort to look their very best. Each intern showed a huge amount of bravery presenting themselves in front of someone they had never met before. They did themselves and us very proud!
We will now work together to reflect on these interviews and support them to develop fuller and more structured answers, and increase their confidence ready for their second mock interview after Easter.
Well done everyone! 👏🏽 😊

Applications are open and places are starting to fill for September ‘24 💫
You can also apply for 2025!

We are now taking applications for our September 2024 cohort

You can apply online at the following link https://tinyurl.com/3cbdwnjx

If you would like more information on a cohort near you, please visit our webpage or contact [email protected]

Excellent start to his new placement at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust This young man, has proven once again how adaptable he is to change! Here with his mentor Ang, he has got stuck in with deep cleaning touch points and medical equipment! Keep going, you’re doing great! 😊 Thank you so much to the NTH Solutions facilities team for all your on going support and faith you have in these wonderful young people

Exciting morning at Catcote Academy Annual Choices Event today. The students were an absolute delight, showing lots of confidence approaching employers, people they may not have seen before, seeking information about different job roles and courses ready for their next steps!
You were all fabulous and it was lovely to see some familiar faces too! Thank you for inviting us. 😊
Very pleased to have supported this lovely student with his application to Choices College in September 2024!!

https://www.facebook.com/share/BGqM3uBqiGETqirt/

Social prescribing day is Thursday!! Come along and join us for a range of activities throughout the day… 💃⚽️🎵🎾🧘‍♀️🧘🎨

One of our wonderfully brave interns begins his first shift at Asda Peterlee today. Sarah, Asda’s Service Section Leader, is showing him the clocking in/out system during his induction.
Good luck, and enjoy! 😊