Apprenticeships
As an apprentice you can earn a wage and work alongside experienced staff to gain job-specific skills. You may also require off the job, usually on a day-release basis, where you will receive training to work towards nationally recognised qualifications. Anyone living in England, over 16 and not in full-time education can apply.
Apprenticeships can take between one and four years to complete depending on the level of Apprenticeship, the apprentices' ability and the industry sector. The minimum salary is £95 a week; however, many apprentices earn significantly more.
Key benefits:
- earn a salary
- get paid holidays
- receive training
- gain qualifications
- learn job-specific skills.
Employer Information
If you are already providing or expressing interest in providing a work-placement, taking on a new recruit or training one of your existing employees, we hope that this guide will help you understand the services and support which we can provide and the role which you can play in the process.
How can work-based training help your business?
We know that recruiting the right member of staff for your company and ensuring that they have the relevant skills and knowledge to do the job you require will be of paramount importance to you. We can help you in these activities through our work-based training programmes, which will provide you with a number of key benefits;
- Cost effective recruitment
- Development of a well trained, well-motivated workforce
- Help meet the costs of training
- Increased productivity through better trained staff
- Improved company performance
- Demonstrate your commitment to staff development
- Increased Bottom Line Profit
Apprenticeships can make your organisation more effective, productive and competitive by addressing your skill gaps directly, even in uncertain ecenomic times.
Apprenticeships deliver skills designed around your business needs. They also help you the specialist skills you need to keep pace with the latest technology and working practices in your sector.
"Being the General Manager of an SME I find the training services offered by Hargreaves perfect for our needs. Hargreaves are excellent at accessing government funding and offer maximum benefit for minimum training time. All my employees have benefited from the training having always been pushed the right amount. They return qualified and feeling they deserved"
Pennine Casting Ltd
