Benefits of employing an Apprentice

Apprenticeships are a smart investment in your organisation's future. By investing in apprentices, employers can build a sustainable talent pipeline, strengthen their workforce and drive long-term business growth.

Our experience and expertise with Apprenticeships can help employers make real improvements to businesses, by:

  • Reducing training and recruitment costs

  • Increasing productivity and their bottom line

  • Developing a skilled, motivated and qualified workforce

  • Improving customer satisfaction

  • Receiving financial return on investment

For small to medium-sized employers, our support teams provide the responsive and customer focused service needed to ensure a high-quality, tailored experience is delivered. For larger employers, our Corporate Account Managers offer continuous, dedicated and personalised support to meet the employers’ needs surrounding training and recruitment.

What are the benefits of Apprentices within a business?

  • Recruitment

    If you’re looking to fill vacancies, but haven’t yet found the right candidate - the issue could be to the applicants having a lack of training or it could be that the people you’re looking for simply aren’t applying as the position offers them no room to learn and develop.

    Add value to your offer and attract the right talent by making the vacancy an Apprenticeship position - give your business the ability to develop the highly skilled workforce you require by giving new employees the ability to learn new skills upon recruitment.

  • Staff Retention

    Highlight clear ways for your current staff to progress in their career with you as their employer - keep your team engaged and demonstrate a career path for each individual via an Apprenticeship. Developing such a skilled, motivated and qualified workforce will also improve customer satisfaction, resulting in a financial return on investment.

  • Financial Government Incentive

    Apprentices aged 16-18 (or aged under 25 with an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) will be given a £1,000 incentive.

    This payment will be made directly to Employers in two equal instalments, where the Apprentice is still in learning at day 90 and day 365. There is no limit on the number of incentive payments that an Employer can claim for Apprentices.

    Claiming incentive payments is simple, find out further down this page.

  • Upskilling

    Should your workforce have any skills gaps, upskilling your current workforce may be the answer to filling these, helping your business achieve what’s required. Your team may have a natural born leader or a member who’s clearly keen to learn and upskill their current skillset. Invest your Apprenticeship Levy or utilise government funding to upskill these team members and create the skilled workforce you desire.

  • Productivity

    Introducing further training to your staff will give them the capabilities and knowledge required to work more efficiently, resulting in increased productivity. These skills may come from an Apprenticeship not necessarily directly associated with their position, for example the Level 3 Apprenticeship ‘Team Leader/Supervisor’ can be implemented across a multitude of sectors. Increasing staff productivity rates will not only benefit the business directly, but getting what previously seemed like lengthy tasks completed more quickly and effectively than before will boost the morale of any team.

  • Succession Planning

    Utilising your Apprenticeship Levy pot can help secure a business' future by developing tomorrow’s leaders, whether that be via an Apprenticeship, Advanced Apprenticeship, Higher Apprenticeship or Degree Apprenticeship.

  • Compliance

    Your Apprenticeship Levy can be used for programmes to ensure your staff and business meets with legislative obligations.

How much do I pay for an apprenticeship?

Funding rules are in place and require employers to either pay into a Levy pot or pay a contribution towards training and assessments.

Apprenticeship Funding
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What do Apprenticeships include?

Each Apprenticeship programme has its own Standard linked to a specific occupation - these are rigorous, challenging and require the Apprentice to undertake a minimum of one year’s training followed by an End-Point Assessment (EPA).

Our Apprenticeships

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