Kay Butterfield

Kay has worked in further education and skills for over 30 years. She worked for the Education Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) for 23 years supporting national employers to introduce apprenticeships within their business. At the ESFA, Kay’s lead areas included working nationally with the NHS and its arms-length bodies, and Ofsted in respect to quality assurance of apprenticeships. Kay has significant understanding of apprenticeship reforms, technical funding, and quality. In 2016, Kay worked part-time within a Trust for one year to gain first-hand experience within the NHS and provided support to develop and grow the Trust’s apprenticeship programme alongside undertaking freelance work under a collective contract for all the NHS Trusts in the North West including the Ambulance Service.

Kay joined Health Education England in March 2018 and undertakes a mixed portfolio of work associated with Education Transformation of the workforce, geographically focused in West Yorkshire (WY) with some lead areas of work being undertake across Yorkshire and the Humber. 2020/21 is the second year that Kay has taken the lead within her portfolio for the WY ACP programme and September 2020 has seen the first cohorts of ACP apprentices commence.