About the course

Available from September 2025, our Level 5 Assistant Practitioner (health) apprenticeship is designed to be relevant, practical and challenging. This apprenticeship addresses the knowledge, skills and professional behaviours needed for a range of healthcare roles.

Assistant Practitioners work as part of the wider health and social care team and have direct contact with patients, service users or clients providing high quality and compassionate care. Assistant Practitioners work at a level above that of Healthcare Support Workers and have a more in-depth understanding about factors that influence health and ill-health (e.g. anatomy and physiology). Assistant Practitioner is a job title applied to a very wide variety of roles that have been developed locally by employers to meet individual service need. Upon successful completion of this standard, individuals will have obtained the core skills, knowledge and values/behaviours to become an Assistant Practitioner.

The programme will foster development of reflective, compassionate healthcare practitioners, able to promote safe and effective care within a multi-disciplinary context. The experiences gained on the programme will help staff to provide and maintain healthcare of the highest quality. The programme is designed in partnership with local employers and service users to offer practice-led and competency-based training. The course integrates the theory of healthcare practice with work-based learning, using your staff who are trained as practice educators and assessors to support the apprentices.

Qualifications

Upon completion of the programme, all successful graduates are awarded the following qualifications:

• Level 5 Assistant Practitioner (Health) Apprenticeship.
• Foundation Degree in Healthcare Practice.
• English and Maths to Level 2 are included if not held at entry.

Units of study

Year 1

Year 2

Entry requirements 

Individual employers will set their own entry requirements. Typically....

Fee: Companies with a wage bill less than £3m will just pay £700 over the two years, this is because the government funds 95% of the full fee. If you are a levy-payer then this apprenticeship will be £14,000. As a business of any size, you can also use the Manage Apprenticeship service to apply for funding from large businesses that want to fund 100% of your apprenticeship training and assessment costs.