Benefits of Employer Apprenticeships

Benefits include:

Improve your bottom lines
Apprenticeships deliver real returns, helping you to improve productivity and be more competitive.
Keep your workforce motivated
Apprentices tend to be eager, motivated, flexible and loyal to the company that invested in them. 78% of employers reported improved productivity.
Fill your skills gaps
Apprenticeships deliver skills designed around your business needs, providing the skilled workers of the future. 86% of employers said apprenticeships developed skills relevant to their organisation, with 90% of apprentices staying on in their place of work after completion.

What is an Apprenticeship?

An apprenticeship is a job which is coupled with industry-standard training. It should be about entry to a recognised occupation, involve a substantial programme of on- and off-the-job training and the apprentice’s occupational competence should be tested by an independent, end point assessment.

Apprenticeships are employer led: employers set the standards, create the demand for apprentices to meet their skills needs, fund the apprenticeship and are responsible for employing and training the apprentice. But the needs of the apprentice are equally important: to achieve competence in a skilled occupation, which is transferable and secures long term earning potential, greater security and the capability to progress in the workplace.

The Occupation and Standard

An apprenticeship should provide entry to a recognised occupation which can be transferred to other relevant employers and is sufficiently skilled to require employment and training of at least a year’s duration, with 20% of the time spent on off-the-job training.

A written standard, which fully defines the occupation in terms of the responsibilities and tasks involved and the skills, knowledge and behaviours required to achieve competence, must be approved.

Apprenticeship Levy

Our Apprenticeship Levy page is to help you understand all you need to know about the Apprenticeship Levy, how it will affect your business and how to ensure that your employees have the right skill sets to benefit your business.

The Apprenticeship Levy was launched in April 2017 to encourage employers to use apprenticeship programmes, either for new staff or to upskill an existing workforce, and help reduce the skills gap within the UK’s workforce. The Apprenticeship Levy is applied to all industries in the UK.

Get more information on Apprenticeship Funding and the Apprenticeship Levy here