Information for Employers

Apprenticeships can make your organisation more effective, productive and competitive by addressing your skills gaps directly.
 
They are designed to help your employees reach a high level of competency and performance.
 
Kingston Maurward College offers around 20 different Apprenticeship frameworks available across 8 different industry sectors. With this choice, there’s bound to be a place for an apprentice in your organisation.
 
This section provides helpful information on why Apprenticeships could be right for you or visit www.apprenticeships.org.uk/employers  for more general details.

 

  • 80% of those employers who employ apprentices agree they make their workplace more productive
     
  • 81% of consumers favour using a company which takes on apprentices
     
  • The National Minimum Wage for apprentices is £2.50 per hour. Many employers prefer to pay more however, and research shows that the average salary is approx £170 per week
     
  • Employers who take on a 16-18 year old apprentice only pay their salary. The Government will fund their training.


Apprenticeships can help businesses across various industries by offering a route to channel fresh talent.

UK businesses consider skills shortages and recruitment difficulties a bigger threat to performance than soaring oil prices and declining consumer spending, and more than a quarter of these rate this form of vocational training higher than any other qualification (www.apprenticeships.org.uk 2009).
 
Apprenticeships have the benefit of providing your workforce with the practical skills and qualifications that your organisation needs to flourish both now and in the future.

 

Our Role

We will provide an Work-based learning co-ordinator who is a specialist in your industry and  will be able to support and guide you. 

 

We will work with you to:

  • *       help you decide which Apprenticeship is right for you;
  • *       explain the way that Apprenticeships might work for you and if funding is available;
  • *       agree a training plan with your apprentice;
  • *       recruit an apprentice or support your existing staff into Apprenticeships;
  • *       manage the training and evaluation; and
  • *       ensure that national quality standards are met and deliver integrated, coherent training.

 

Improve your productivity

Because apprentices receive relevant training and work while they learn, they can have an immediate effect and make a real and more meaningful contribution to your business. As Apprenticeships are work-based training programmes, most of the training is ‘on the job’ – at your premises.

Want to check out an idea on your return on investment from hiring an Apprentice? Use this handy ROI calculator www.apprenticeships.org.uk/Employers/ROI-Tool.aspx

Motivate your workforce

Apprenticeships are available to both new and current employees. New employees feel supported and able to develop in their new role, and the extra responsibility for current employees makes them feel more valued and easier to retain in the long term.

Give them relevant training

Apprenticeships provide your workforce with expertise that’s not only specific to your industry, but also directly relevant to your business. They are designed around your business needs by industry specialists who genuinely understand what you do.

As the employer you must give your apprentices an induction into their role and provide on-the-job training. You are also responsible for paying your apprentices’ wages

Avoid skills shortages

Change and innovation are always with us. New advances are constantly challenging us to keep pace or catch up. Apprenticeships can help your workforce master the latest techniques to fill the skills gaps you have and insure against those that are likely to arise.

By taking on apprentices, you develop the specialist skills you need to keep pace with the latest technology and working practices in your sector.