Welcome! Business Apprenticeship Delivery in the Workplace Caroline Groom.

Welcome!

Business Apprenticeship Delivery in the Workplace

Caroline Groom

JHP Group Delivery• Around 4,400 Apprentices – Administration, Management and Customer Service

• 3,570 learners successfully achieved an intermediate apprenticeship and around 2,035 achieved an advanced Apprenticeship with JHP Group in 2011-12

• JHP Group work with a wide variety of employers – large nationals and SMEs

• Inspected by Ofsted in July 2012

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Challenges for Providers-Employers

We know employers value the qualifications:

• They want to provide training and development opportunities for staff

• They see the main benefits as increased employee satisfaction, motivation and retention

HOWEVER:

Engagement for some employers, can be passive rather than active:• Training is the job of the provider – done by someone else• Willing to sign paperwork but not to take time out to review the

learners progress with training provider staff

Challenges for Providers-Employers

In a recent JHP survey, learners were asked....

Do you agree with the following statement ?

“ My employer is involved in my training programme.....”

We asked those who respond negatively to this question,

how they would like their employer to be more involved:– 48% said “Taking an interest in work I Produce”

– 44% said “Supporting with the completion of work between visits”

– 27% “Meeting with my assessor when he/she visits”

Challenges for Providers-Employers

Employer engagement is not a new challenge.

What do you do to encourage employer engagement?

Active Employer Engagement

10 minute Discussion, in Groups

Challenges for Providers- Functional SkillsWhat JHP did ....

• Appointed a Functional Skills Implementation Manager

• Trained and developed delivery staff

• Began a changing of hearts and minds of delivery staff

• Established a network of Functional Skills Champions

• Required all delivery staff to achieve functional skills qualifications at level 2 as a requirement of their job role

• Agreed that all new staff are to have achieved functional skills qualifications at level 2 as a part of induction

Challenges for Providers- Functional SkillsWhat JHP did cont....

• Developed resources and subsequent signposting of all resources to support delivery

• Improved understanding of the importance of using initial and diagnostic assessments properly

• Reviewed different delivery models

Identified MI needed to help us measure progress

– Staff achievement of functional skills

– Number of re-sits

– Starts on functional skills

Challenges for Providers- Functional Skills

All of this Activity only gets us over the starting line....

What else do we need to do?

10 minute Discussion in Groups

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Knowing what is out there to support delivery of Apprenticeships in the Workplace

Challenges for Providers

There are a variety of places we can go for

Resources and Materials...

CfAOfsted

LSIS

AELP

Awarding Organisations

Other?

Challenges for ProvidersFinding high quality, useful information and resources can

sometimes be like looking for a needle in a Haystack!!

Challenges for Providers

Spend a few minutes in your groups discussing what materials/resources/information you have found useful

Write down:

The name of the resource/material

Where you accessed it

Why it was useful

I will arrange for this information to be shared amongst the group

Welcome!

Business Apprenticeships Delivery in the WorkplaceAny Questions email me at [email protected]