Health Physics Monitor Apprentice Review

Ensure the Safety of plant workers/people and environment, in my job I help highlight any hazards and make sure that that hazard is correctly controlled to prevent an incident. I am there to make sure people are following the correct procedure and to the correct standard so no body can get hurt

I have developed my understanding on being able to deal with change as in my job everyone as different ways in doing things and every building has different ways in doing things, also it’s made me more comfortable with thinking fast and made me feel like I have great knowledge about my job.

I Enjoy going to work and enjoy everyone who I am working with but the training providor side could do with more knowledge about our job so we are able to relate to the training they are providing as the detail that we were learning about certain subjects was excessive and had nothing to do with our job

Our placement was very organised and we were given a lot of notice, however at gen 2 the course was repetitive and most things had nothing to do with our job role. Or some things we done would have been more handy learning at the beginning of our apprenticeship as what we were learning we had already been doing for the past year so feel like we would have benefitted from it more earlier on.

We are fully aware that we are able to talk to our employer and know we will receive lots of support. If we have any grievances we know we can go speak to them and they will do whatever hey can to help us or if we are unsure on something and need a bit of support we are comfortable to be taking time to ask them.

We receive lots of support and receive help when needed, we are encouraged to take time at our training provider to focus on revising and getting any work that needs done completed. Me personally I don’t have a laptop and my training provider was more than happy for me to complete any work that needs done at that facility.

Some things we learned were handy and could be linked to our every day job role which made understanding and remembering training easier. For example we done a few demonstrations to do with our job which helped us when we were in our placement as we could remember what we done in training

We have charity comity which everyone is urged to get involved with for example we do Christmas shoe boxes for the elderly, charity gig nights which people will pay entry to get in to listen to bands play (all profits go to charity) we also have lots of cake sales and raffles.

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Very interesting place to work with lots of opportunities to better yourself for example you can go on to doing degree apprenticeships which can open more opportunities to even better job roles. It provides stable employment with a competitive salary. Sellafield has good prospects and provides training on the job to ensure every member of staff is correctly qualified and competent doing their job role

Listen to every bit of training you receive and it will help you massively throughout your course. Do your research on your job so you are fully aware to what you are doing as there is a lot to learn. Remember to stick in as you have exams and keep everything you’re given as you will need it to look back in and revise from.