So my name is Modupeola Falase but everybody calls me Mo.
I'm currently a student nursing associate at the University of Derby.
I work for the Derbyshire Health Care Foundation Trust as a mental health and physical health practitioner.
I do all the physical health stuff like the blood pressure bloods, ECGs, the full works.
I've been in mental health for about ten years now, and I've been with the team for about six years, 5 or 6 years.
And I love what I do, and I feel like I'd gone to a point where the job wasn't challenging anymore.
I needed a bit of a challenge. So I spoke to my manager.
She was like, go and do your nursing degree.
That would be something that would be a challenge.
Too you and would also improve you as a human being as well.
And your relationship with your patients.
With the apprenticeship route, I could study and earn at the same time.
Still earn a salary and obviously have the background, the help of my colleagues that work. For me personally, the apprenticeship route
So going back to uni and doing the apprenticeship courses just showed me reasons why we do what we do.
The evidence based backing procedures, we carry out the processes and I can see a patient carry out physical observation, look at it, read it, understand what's going on with the patient and feed that back to the doctors.
The apprenticeship has helped me grow professionally in the sense that I think I'm better at what I do because I understand why I do what I do.
I've met amazing people on my course.
For folks that are younger than me, I've met folks are older than me. Different backgrounds.
I mean, I've come from mental health, from physical health, backgrounds of just blended together.
We have an amazing cohort of lecturers, I'm not even going to lie, because they just break things down to the barest minimum.
They're always there to help when we need when we need assistance.
And it's just it's just been an experience that I've enjoyed from, from the beginning.
So I'm Lorraine Treble. I'm a lead nurse at Bayheath House, which is the community mental health team, but I'm also Mo's assessor.
The feedback that we get from from apprentices is that they like the clinical hands on work, and they like to learn it from people that are experienced.
So the qualities that we look for in an apprentice are somebody that's keen, that's willing to learn, that's, willing to adapt.
We look for somebody that's got good communication skills, got good people skills that are a good team player.
You know, that they fit into the team.
I work with my assessor on a daily basis, so she's always there with me, showing me what to do.
And then anytime there's any problems she's there.
So there is a lot of support and it comes from everywhere.
So I've got it from uni from the trust from my team.
It's a holistic form of support basically.
Mo is very good.
She's a very good student, she's very willing to learn and she wants to learn.
And that's it encourages us to be more invested in that person as well.
And, you know, the right people in the right role, doing the right jobs.
It can only help everybody within a caring environment, within a team.
Anyone thinking of doing an apprenticeship in this field, I think is the best thing you can do, because the process of combining learning and working is, is a combination of theory and practical.
You could go into I don't care you could go into children care, or rather.
It could be anything go into it with an open mind.
Ready to learn?
We're all going to make mistakes that's natural in life, but it's learning from the mistakes and making yourself a better person.
It's very rewarding, particularly when you see a patient get better.
Definitely makes your job worthwhile.