{"id":25132,"date":"2024-05-15T15:00:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ounews.co\/?p=25132"},"modified":"2024-05-15T15:00:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T14:00:41","slug":"ou-student-wins-apprenticeship-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/around-ou\/ou-student-wins-apprenticeship-award\/","title":{"rendered":"OU student wins apprenticeship award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Open University<\/a> student Hannah Wright has won the Apprenticeship Determination of the Year award at the Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Apprenticeship awards 2023\/24.<\/a><\/p>\n

The annual awards recognise apprentices who have demonstrated outstanding work and commitment to their role.<\/p>\n

The Apprenticeship team at Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership said:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cHannah has worked in challenging environments but has endeavoured to deliver exceptional things within her role and learning journey.\u00a0She has thrived and shone in the face of adversity.<\/em><\/p>\n

Hannah has shown commitment, initiative, and high levels of personal motivation to provide an exceptionally high-level standard of work and commitment to learning. She consistently demonstrates the trusts PRIDE values and widely contributes to ongoing work within the trust. <\/em><\/p>\n

Hannah has provided excellence within her role, and strived to achieve through challenge, offering support and guidance to others. She has embraced the apprenticeship as a valuable opportunity for personal, professional and career development. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hannah said upon winning:<\/p>\n

\u201cI was really grateful to receive this award, I feel incredibly lucky to be completing my apprenticeship with the OU, I have been so well supported by my employer and the OU! I initially doubted my ability to complete a degree but I have really surprised myself. Winning the determination award has been a real boost to my confidence and I feel proud of my achievements.\u201c\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hannah, who is 35 and has three children, began her social work degree apprenticeship in 2022<\/a> having worked in mental health as an unregistered member of staff since 2009. She is passionate about social justice and chose a social work degree because she wanted a career in which she could support people to improve their health, safety and wellbeing. Doing a degree apprenticeship with the OU enabled her to study and earn a salary so she could continue supporting her family.<\/p>\n

Once qualified she plans on doing further training to become an Approved Mental Health Professional, supporting young people with their mental health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Open University student Hannah Wright has won the Apprenticeship Determination of the Year award at the Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Apprenticeship awards 2023\/24. The annual awards recognise apprentices who have demonstrated outstanding work and commitment to their role. The Apprenticeship team at Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership said: \u00a0\u201cHannah has worked in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":21014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,7],"tags":[150,862,1525,1640,1643,2063,2403],"class_list":["post-25132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-ou","category-education-languages-health","category-health","tag-apprenticeship","tag-faculty-of-wels","tag-news-home","tag-ou-home","tag-ou-news","tag-social-work","tag-wels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}