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Refine Your Apprenticeship & Early Careers Strategy
Having an Early Careers strategy for your business is key and just the start of the process, reviewing it to make sure it’s working for you on a regular basis can mitigate several potential challenges. For example, preventing issues such as students within the business becoming disengaged due to a lack of structured plans & activities, as well as negative outcomes like early departures.
- Health Check of current programmes to identify good practise and areas for improvement.
- Job role profiling to identify apprentices/early careers positions.
- Consultancy services to set up / effectively manage internal early careers schemes.
- TNA (training needs analysis) of existing staff and upskilling requirements.
Training & Mentoring
Bespoke courses are available to effectively manage apprentices and early careers within your business. These courses outline key responsibilities from the outset, detailing how to effectively train, lead, and mentor early career talent in your company.
Overview: Unconscious bias can significantly impact decision-making, workplace culture, and diversity. This interactive workshop aims to raise awareness of unconscious biases and equip participants with practical strategies to foster a fair and positive work environment. Whether you’re hiring for new roles, managing internal moves, or nurturing early-career talent, understanding bias is essential.
Target Audience: Businesses, recruitment professionals, talent acquisition teams, managers, and anyone involved in people management.
Duration: Half Day Workshop
Overview: In today’s competitive landscape, technical expertise alone isn’t enough. Soft skills—often referred to as “people skills”—play a pivotal role in personal and professional success. This interactive workshop focuses on three critical soft skills: Resilience, Team Building, and Communication. Participants will engage in thought-provoking activities to enhance their abilities beyond industry-specific knowledge with a range of group activities, 121 peer work and reflective practice.
Target Audience: Apprentices, Graduates & Inters in the business
(*In the past we have also ran this course to occupationally competent employees who may be lacking interpersonal skills. )
Duration: Full-day workshop
Objective: End Point Assessment (EPA) is a crucial phase in an apprentice’s journey, and it shouldn’t be an afterthought. This workshop empowers employers with the knowledge and strategies needed to ensure both their apprentices and their businesses are well-prepared for EPA. We’ll cover practical tips, insights, and unexpected scenarios to enhance the experience.
(EPA) Duration: Half-day workshop
Objective: This workshop aims to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of the roles and responsibilities involved in employing early careers students. By exploring the perspectives of employers, mentors, students, and training providers, we will provide hints, tips, and workable strategies to enhance the success of both students and businesses while fostering industry growth.
Duration: Half Day Workshop
With our support, you can establish strong connections with providers, ensuring complete transparency in apprentice training and fostering effective skill, knowledge, and behaviour development through a tri-party agreement.
As an employer, understanding your apprentice college curriculum is vital. Establishing a relationship with your provider that collaboratively manages the skills and knowledge development areas that should be managed by the provider, while implementing a robust internal training program to prepare apprentices seamlessly for their end-point assessment.
Recruitment
Allowing us to partner with you in developing your recruitment strategy for apprenticeships and early career programs, as well as overseeing the onboarding process, will ensure a robust pipeline of talent entering your business. This proactive approach not only future proofs your workforce but also positions your company as an employer of choice, attracting talent from different educational providers. Moreover, by strategically planning to enhance your workforce’s skills and talent, your business will gain substantial savings on recruitment costs.
- Raising business profile with local and national educational providers as an employer of choice.
- Review of recruitment strategy.
- Interview and successful onboarding activities
Levy Funding
Unlock Additional Funding
Partnering with us to leverage the Levy/Funding system enables you to access extra financial resources, especially beneficial for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. With our expertise, you can seamlessly navigate the funding process, avoiding unnecessary expenses and potentially saving on apprenticeship training costs. Our key focus is on assisting you in integrating the Digital Apprenticeship Service (DAS), thus this provides a critical and comprehensive overview of your apprenticeship activities.
- Setting up of DAS Account (Digital Apprenticeship Service)
- Levy Funding Utilisation Discussions
- Online Pledge – bidding for other businesses unused Levy funds
Education Providers
Ofsted Preparation
Employer Engagement
Alignment Programs
Curriculum Planning
Ofsted Preparation
With us, you can prepare for an Ofsted inspection strategically, fostering continuous improvement, accountability, and the delivery of high-quality education and services. Partnering with us extends beyond the inspection, contributing to the long-term success and sustainability of your institution. Being ready for an Ofsted inspection ensures compliance, demonstrates improvement, and portrays a positive and accurate image of your institution and overall performance.
- A critical review of current position to include staff observations, review curriculum of intent, deep dive into learner journey of planning and feedback on work completed.
- Linking SOL to apprenticeship KSBs.
Employer Engagement
Join us to revolutionise your education approach.
Partnering with us for the implementation of employer engagement strategies empowers education providers like yours to navigate challenges with agility and innovation. Together, we cultivate a dynamic learning environment that responds effectively to student needs. Recognising the vital role of employers, Ofsted underscores the imperative of their involvement in curriculum planning.
With us, you embark on a journey of collaborative curriculum development. By establishing diverse workgroups representing various sectors, we ignite creativity and foster skill enhancement. Through initiatives like Continuing Professional Development (CPD) opportunities, enhanced student engagement in T Levels, and apprenticeship promotion, we cultivate robust relationships with employers, driving impactful educational outcomes.
- Development of a meaningful employer engagement cycle to positively impact and shape the curriculum to meet local and business needs.
Alignment Programmes
With us, you can craft an apprenticeship offering strategy that ensures alignment with local skills partnerships, thereby enhancing the effectiveness and relevance of your activities can lead to more effective, relevant, and successful apprenticeship programs while mitigating potential challenges and risks.
- Ensure alignment with local skills partners.
- Modifying potential challenges and risks.
Curriculum Planning
Curriculum planning to contribute to the Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours of multiple apprenticeships whilst addressing theoretical and practical gaps to improve skills transfer is always a big ask, but we are on hand to provide some practical advice to encourage a holistic approach, encouraging employer contributions that will enhance your institutions reputation as a preferred provider whilst developing the industry skills needs around you.
- Planning to deliver the curriculum in a way that contextualises learning to the specific apprenticeship standards.
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Testimonials
Don’t just take our word for it…
Thanks for coming to present to the team at Northampton College on preparing apprentice employers for End point assessment. It was very insightful and informative with excellent points hat the team are taking forward to improve the services to employers and preparing apprentices in their next steps in their careers.
Helen’s experience and expertise in the further education sector and high-performance technology industry shows a clear understanding of the need for collaboration between educators and employers! Thanks for your insight, Helen!
The Brackmills BID celebrated National Apprenticeship Week last week with a breakfast event, for employers across the estate, Helen carried out an informative presentation to employers on what the Apprenticeship Standards now entailed, clarified some myths & broke down the acronyms! - the presentation was well received by the audience, with lots of engagement after the event too”
The session was really useful with some great learning gained on the importance of partnerships working with employers early to ensure they are involved & aware in the EPA process
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