An Employers Guide to. Apprenticeships

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1 An Empoyers Guide to Apprenticeships

2 Contents Case Studies 2 Apprenticeships 3 Apprentice Roes 3 The Assessor 4 Recruitment 4 Funding and Centraised Grants 4 Apprenticeships Framework 5 Length of an Apprenticeship 5 On-the-job earning 6 Off-the-job earning 6 The Apprentice wage 7 Hours and hoiday entitement 7 Heath and safety 7 Safeguarding 7 Pastora Support 7 Why our Empoyers Vaue their Apprentices and what they have to say: NetSupport, based in Market Deeping, provides innovative soutions to aid the management of desktop computers and their users in over 90 countries wordwide. NetSupport is a ongstanding supporter of IT Apprenticeships within their business. Andy Earp, Tech Support Manager, expained that NetSupport s At NetSupport we re dedicated to giving apprentices an experience that wi et them nurture their interests, whist giving them the skis they need to become a core part of our business. Technica support is a reay busy department. It demands great customer service but aso passion and fare for IT. Our empoyees need to become competey at home with the NetSupport products making in-house training a priority. Andy Earp, Technica Support Manager technica support department recruit and train apprentices whose skis can be mouded to the business. 2 enriched.it, based in Market Deeping, speciaise in deivering high quaity curricuum enrichment soutions in primary schoos. Scott Johnson, Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schoos apprentice at enriched. it, stood out from the crowd time and time again for his fantastic attitude and eagerness to earn. In ight of his success, Scott was presented with the Coege s Apprentice of the Term Award, Spring Scott Johnson from Enriched IT, receives his Apprentice of the Term Award, Spring 2015.

3 Is supporting a young person going to be time consuming? These are just some of the questions empoyers have been asking us. As a Training Provider we fee that fuy understanding your needs is key to enabing the deivery of an exceptiona service where everyone can succeed. So et s start with you, the empoyer. You may have decided to expore the apprenticeship programmes because you are keen to provide a young person with a rea opportunity, after a nurturing fresh taent can be exciting and rewarding whist providing you with the means to meet future succession pans. This is where we can hep. Apprentice Roes What exacty does an Apprenticeship programme ook ike? Apprentices can fufi a number of roes within a businesses, from Administrators to Catering to Motor Vehice. Depending on the type of roe you require, an Apprenticeship can be taiored to suit the requirements of the job roe. This provides greater fexibiity and ensures that your apprentice is being trained to meet the needs of your business and the roe you require. 96% of Empoyers who take on an Apprentice say their business benefited apprenticeships.org.uk, 2014 What support and funding is avaiabe? How wi it work? 3

4 The Assessor The Assessor is responsibe for deivering the quaification and carrying out the assessment. An Assessor wi be assigned to your Apprentice and wi visit them in the workpace to provide training and assess their competence against a set of agreed standards. The first few weeks of the quaification can often be the most chaenging for an Apprentice as they sette into their studies and the work environment. As an empoyer you can hep by reviewing the Individua Learning Pan with your Apprentice and their Assessor. This process wi hep identify which units of the quaification are covered by the Apprentice s current job roe, therefore ensuring that the quaification is taiored towards meeting your needs. Recruitment The Nationa Apprenticeship Service offers an on-ine service which can be used to advertise and recruit an Apprentice roe for you. In order to use this service a training provider, such as City Coege Peterborough, wi be required. City Coege Peterborough offers a free recruitment service for your Apprentice roe. We wi advertise the positions and screen a appicants prior to sending their detais over to your company for consideration. City Coege Peterborough wi assess the appicant s Functiona Engish and Functiona Maths as we as their IT abiities before suggesting them for the position. As the empoyer you wi be abe to shortist candidates and hod interviews in order to seect the candidate that is right for you. To hep with recruitment you may wish to consider the option of offering a Traineeship. These programmes provide young earners with work experience and work preparation training and act as a stepping stone into an Apprenticeship. This wi aow you to assess their suitabiity for an Apprentice roe. To find out more about Traineeships go to You can aso discuss this with one of our Recruitment Advisers. Funding and Centraised Grants There is Government funding avaiabe to contribute towards the costs of recruiting and training an Apprentice. Whist the Government wi fuy fund the apprenticeship programmes for earners aged between years od, they ony provide 50% of the costs for earners aged 19 and over. For earners aged 24 and oder the amount of funding is ower and not aways avaiabe. You can appy for funding through City Coege Peterborough. They wi be abe to advise you on the funding avaiabe and how it is paid. For Apprentices 19 and over, there may be a contribution required, but this woud be discussed with the Coege s Recruitment Adviser. As an empoyer of an Apprentice you may be eigibe for an AGE 16 to 24 grant. For more information visit Over 220,000 Workpaces aready offering Apprenticeships apprenticeships.org.uk,

5 Apprenticeship Framework A Apprenticeship frameworks are inked to specific job roes or occupations. There are three eves of Apprenticeship avaiabe for those aged 16 and over: Intermediate Leve Apprenticeships Advanced Leve Apprenticeships Higher Apprenticeships A typica framework for each eve incudes: A nationay recognised vocationa Quaification (NVQ / Dipoma) Functiona skis: Engish, maths and ICT A technica certificate that covers knowedge of sector area Persona Learning and Thinking Skis Empoyee Rights and Responsibiities City Coege Peterborough s frameworks for Apprenticeships: Intermediate (Leve 2) Advanced (Leve 3) Higher (Leve 4/5) Business Administration Customer Service 3 3 IT Professiona IT Appication Speciaist 3 3 Socia Media & Digita Marketing 3 Team Leading 3 Management 3 3 Motor Vehice 3 Warehousing & Storage 3 3 Chidcare 3 3 Heath & Socia Care Catering/Food & Drink 3 3 Supporting Teaching & Learning in Schoos 3 3 Length of an Apprenticeship The ength of an Apprenticeship varies depending on prior ski eves of the Apprentice, the quaification being obtained and the industry sector. Generay, the minimum amount of time for an Apprenticeship takes to compete is 12 months. 5

6 On-the-job Learning As an empoyer it is important that you provide your Apprentice with an induction into their roe and continua on-the-job earning. Through on-the-job earning an Apprentice wi deveop job-specific skis that wi enabe them to fufi the roe and meet the requirements of their quaification. During the course of the Apprenticeship you can support your Apprentice by the foowing: Hep to pan By identifying activities that can be used to generate evidence and setting targets for achievement and assessment. Observe and anayse Monitor your Apprentice and check their work reguary. Record any areas for improvement and give opportunities for practice. Give feedback Discuss performance with your Apprentice ensuring they input to the process. Be positive about things they have done we and be open and honest about any areas for improvement. Expain or demonstrate Discuss ways of improving techniques and, if possibe, use exampes of simiar work or demonstrate better techniques. Provide opportunities Ensure your Apprentice has the opportunity to practice and deveop their skis and aim to aocate activities which wi encourage them. If possibe, change their routines reguary to add a variety of tasks and provide further opportunities to earn. Apprentices wi be required to gather evidence during their apprenticeship which supports and evidences their competency. City Coege Peterborough wi provide assessment materias, a portfoio and access to the Coege s Virtua Learning Environment (VLE). Evidence can be coected in many forms and is acceptabe, as ong as it heps to prove competence. This may incude a written witness testimony, recording of a professiona discussion, notes or an observation etc. Off-the-job Learning As part of their programme your Apprentice wi be required to study a professiona quaification. This wi incude sef-study, competion of onine earning and assessments, and one-to-one sessions with an Assessor either in person or remotey. In order to support your Apprentice with their studies it is good practice to aow your Apprentice schedued time within the working week to concentrate on their professiona quaification, usuay an hour per week is recommended. 6

7 The Apprentice Wage Empoyers are responsibe for paying an Apprentice s wages and issuing their Contract of Empoyment. Apprentices must be paid at east the Apprenticeship Nationa Minimum Wage. Apprentices who are aged 19 and over but within the first year of their Apprenticeship wi be paid the Apprenticeship Nationa Minimum Wage. Individuas not faing into these categories shoud be paid the Standard Nationa Minimum Wage rate for their age band. For more guidance on the current Nationa Minimum Wage go to: Apprentices are aso entited to statutory Maternity and Sick Pay. Hours and Hoiday Entitement Both the empoyer and City Coege Peterborough have a duty to ensure that the environment within your work pace is safe, secure and that the company compies with basic Heath and Safety aw. Therefore, prior to an Apprentice starting within your workpace, the Assessor wi require a copy of the Company s Empoyers Liabiity Insurance certificate and wi carry out a Heath and Safety Assessment. For further guidance pease visit the HSE website: hse.gov.uk/youngpeope/apprentices.htm Safeguarding City Coege Peterborough has a statutory and mora duty to ensure that it functions with a view to safeguarding and promoting the wefare of the chidren and vunerabe aduts receiving education and training. This incudes ensuring that we have robust Safeguarding and Chid Protection Poicies in pace and they are shared with empoyers. The Recruitment Officer wi discuss this poicy with you and provide you with a copy of our poicy, incuding what you shoud do if you have any concerns with the we being of your Apprentice. Pastora Support For those Apprentices that require additiona pastora support, whether from the start of the programme or identified at a ater stage, then this can be arranged with the Assessor and a Support Worker wi work on a one-to-one basis to ensure the Apprentice s needs are met. 7

8 Further Information If you require any further information or guidance on Apprenticeships or hep, pease contact our Recruitment team at City Coege Peterborough, John Mansfied Campus, Western Avenue, Dogsthorpe, Peterborough, PE1 4HX Te: