Workforce development through apprenticeships

Educational and Sporting Futures, offers bespoke apprenticeship training programmes aligned with the ethos of your school, ensuring innovation, and support from a team of qualified teachers. 

This page provides Employer Apprenticeship information for anyone thinking of developing their workforce through apprenticeships                                                                                       

Benefits of Apprenticeships for the school workforce

• Develop your workforce through the addition of an apprentice to your team
• Work with an established, Ofsted Outstanding, National award-winning school-focused team
• Apprentices can be nurtured and developed to become part of your school community and invaluable team members.
• Utilise the apprenticeship levy to fund CPD training to upskill and support staff
• Deliver a consistent message throughout your school, academy, Multi-academy trusts with bespoke training to align with the apprenticeship standard.

Apprenticeship delivery:

• Utilise the apprenticeship levy to fund free CPD training to upskill and support existing teaching assistants (not qualified to Level 3)
• Our apprentices will be based within their schools/community settings
• Working 30 hours a week.
• We deliver a blended model of training by specialist tutors who are all from teaching backgrounds.

Apprentices are aged 16 or over and combine working with studying to gain skills and knowledge in a specific job.

Apprentices can be new or current employees.

You must pay the apprentice at least the minimum wage.

Your apprentice must:

• Work with experienced staff
• Learn job-specific skills
• Get time for training or study during their working week (at least 20% of their normal working hours)

If you do not want to hire and train the apprentice yourself, you can use a flexi-job apprenticeship agency.
The apprentice will be employed by the agency but will work in your organisation.