I joined Devon County Council in 2006 on their first Apprenticeship programme when I was 18 years old!<\/p>\n
I worked in the Customer Service Centre and secured a full time permanent job within 3 months. I was successful in securing a role in the Care Direct team within the Customer Service Centre not long after this. Whilst an Apprentice we were able to do lots of amazing things. We completed a volunteering day at a school where we painted a jungle mural on the walls in the children\u2019s changing rooms, we made a presentation in front of the Councillors in the Council Chamber and we were able to meet with other Apprentices regularly where we worked towards an NVQ level 2 and 3 in Customer Service.<\/p>\n
I successfully gained a role in the Assessment and Review Team at Care Direct Plus East 10 years ago and I am now working in the Occupational Therapy team at Care Direct Plus. I gained a Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care whilst working here.<\/p>\n
In September last year I applied for the new Occupational Therapy Apprenticeship that is taught by the University of the West of England and gained a place along with 2 others in Devon County Council. This involves mostly online and some face to face teaching twice a week along with 3 placements over the 4 years of the apprenticeship. Once complete I will have a degree in Occupational Therapy and will be able to register as an Occupational Therapist!<\/p>\n
Devon County Council offer amazing career development opportunities and this is why I am still here after 15 years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"casestudy_category":[18,2],"class_list":["post-14513","wd_case_study","type-wd_case_study","status-publish","hentry","wd_casecat-apprentices-and-graduates","wd_casecat-apprenticeships"],"acf":{"job_title":"Social Care Assessor","area_of_work":"CPD Eastern - Occupational Therapy "},"category_details":[{"id":18,"name":"Apprentices and Graduates","slug":"apprentices-and-graduates","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workingfordevon\/casestudy\/category\/apprentices-and-graduates\/"},{"id":2,"name":"Apprenticeships","slug":"apprenticeships","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workingfordevon\/casestudy\/category\/apprenticeships\/"}],"featured_image":false,"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workingfordevon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/casestudy\/14513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workingfordevon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/casestudy"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workingfordevon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wd_case_study"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workingfordevon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/casestudy\/14513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17088,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workingfordevon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/casestudy\/14513\/revisions\/17088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workingfordevon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wd_casecat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/workingfordevon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/casestudy_category?post=14513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}