Northumbria Health and Care Academy

Our state-of-the-art health and care academy is situated on the grounds of The Northumbria hospital. This innovative centre of learning is designed to provide the highest quality education and training for nurses, midwives, and allied health professionals.

The faculty is comprised of experienced clinicians who hold masters-level education qualifications and who regularly work alongside colleagues in clinical settings. Our educators offer a wealth of contemporary knowledge and expertise to the classroom, offering students both a high-quality academic experience and real-world insights into current healthcare practices. Students further benefit from a wide variety of clinical expertise delivered by subject matter experts from all areas of the trust.

An ambitious partnership with the University of Sunderland enables Northumbria Healthcare to deliver a series of academic programmes and apprenticeships. The partnership means the Academy is the first facility of its kind in the North, and just the second in the country.

The academy is situated on the middle floor, the building also hosts a conference centre on the top floor and The Northumbria Way GP surgery on the bottom floor.

The health and care academy boasts world-class amenities, equipped with the latest technology to ensure our students receive hands-on, practical experience in a realistic healthcare setting. From advanced simulation labs to high-tech classrooms, our facilities are designed to create an immersive learning environment that mirrors the challenges and rewards of real-world healthcare.

Learning areas

4 bedded SIM ward

SIM consultation ward

Community bedsit room with capability for multiple scenarios and professions

Classrooms and conferencing

Our academy has 4 large classrooms which seat 20 people cabaret-style or up to 50 lecture-style. All four classrooms have movable partition walls for flexible classroom sizes, accommodating up to 200 for conferences or large events. There are 4 smaller classrooms which accommodate 10 to 15 students. All classrooms have a full video conferencing set-up, interactive c-touch teaching screens with digital whiteboards and links to SMOTS observation cameras in simulated clinical practice areas of the academy.

We have a large breakout area with two pods for single-person use and multiple seating areas.

We have a fully resourced and staffed library with 12 adaptable sit/stand workstations which will offer skills sessions on referencing, essay-writing and study skills for all programmes associated with the academy.

Catering

On site restaurant. On floor 2 (upstairs) there is a vending suite with Tynemouth Coffee and a local vending company providing a self-serve mini-mart. 

Changing rooms

At the academy, we have male, female and gender-neutral changing spaces, showers and toilets available for staff and students.

The first floor is the designated academy floor for those enrolled at the academy or involved in education for nursing, midwifery and allied health professionals.

Plan of floor 1 - Academy

The second floor contains the meeting rooms and conferencing facilities.

Plan of floor 2 - meeting and conferencing facilities

The academy building is open from 8am until 6pm, Monday to Friday.

Students are not permitted to be on site outside of these hours unless they are attending an evening event. Students who wish to use the library outside of these hours can access the library within the main hospital building, which is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Address:
Northumbria Health and Care Academy
Northumbria Way
Cramlington
Northumberland
NE23 6NZ

Email:
HealthandCareAcademy@northumbria.nhs.uk

Students are entitled to apply for a car parking permit at our academy. This permit entitles you to park in an available space in a designated staff parking area. A permit does not guarantee a parking space. Staff are required to pay for parking and charges are levied according to staff pay grade and hours worked.

There are disabled parking bays at the front of the Academy building which can be used by any student with a valid disabled parking badge.

There are electric vehicle charging spaces which can be used for up to four hours by those with a valid staff parking permit. There is a cost associated with these charging points and payment is set up via the provider app.

Please note that the payment terminals at the Academy are separate to those at the hospital. You cannot pay at the Academy terminals for parking in the main hospital car parks.

We are proud to be part of the Active Hospitals programme. This means we encourage patients and staff to be physically active. If you feel able to, why not walk or cycle to the Academy? Not only will it improve your health, it also helps our planet. The maps and journey planner below can help.

We have 3 bike storage areas at the academy:

• Front left of the building
• Front right of the building
• Behind the building next to the staff parking areas

Use the Cycle Streets Journey Planner or National Cycle Network OS maps below to plan your route.

CycleStreets » Cycle journey planner

Find a route on the National Cycle Network - Sustrans.org.uk

PLEASE NOTE: There could be works or closures on particular routes. We advise that you check with the relevant local authority before setting off on your journey.

If you don't feel able to walk or cycle, but would like a more sustainable way to travel, please consider using public transport. You can plan your journey here. 

Click below for an external plan including entrances and car parks.

Health and Care Academy external plan