What Can We Offer Employers?

  • T Levels & Industry Placements

    What are T Level Industry Placements?

    T levels are a two-year qualification for 16-19 year olds which have been designed alongside employers to ensure that the curriculum is industry relevant and up-to-date.  Each T level includes a 315 hour (45 day) industry placement in a relevant workplace setting.

    The industry placement provides young people the invaluable opportunity to put their learning, knowledge and skills into practice in a real workplace environment and give employers a unique opportunity to develop new talent and help young people become work ready.

    What are the benefits of hosting an Industry Placement Student in your workplace?

    • Attract motivated young people to your business, bringing in imaginative and new ideas
    • Improve the recruitment pipeline for your business
    • Address local and national skills gaps by helping young people develop the skills your industry needs
    • Develop existing staff’s mentoring and management skills
    • Build a more diverse and creative workforce
    • Play an important role in the local community
    • Build partnerships with local training and education providers
    • Save recruitment costs by providing the opportunity to see what the young person can offer, on a no obligation employment basis.


    How can you get involved?

    There are a range of ways you can partner with us and a few examples could be:

    • Site visits and workshops
    • Class talks covering career pathways such as recruitment and higher level apprenticeships
    • Projects that the students can get involved with as part of their course
    • Industry placements


    Key information about the Industry Placement process

      • The Industry Placement team will support you in the selection process, working closely with the students to identify the right match, sending CVs, organising interviews and ensuring everything is in place before they start. We can be flexible to suit the business needs but it must align with their timetable.
      • We set learning goals and clear objectives to review their progress and development, which we discuss with you at key stages during the placement.
      • Students will receive pre-employment training before joining you to ensure they understand your expectations around behaviour and attitude in the workplace, dress codes and timekeeping.
      • We expect your premises to comply with health and safety regulations and that you hold the relevant insurance policies, as you would for an employee whilst in your workplace. We will carry out checks before the placement starts to verify policies are in place.

    Please note for Safeguarding purposes we cannot offer Industry Placements with sole traders or businesses based in a residential environment. You can view our Safeguarding leaflet pdf here (373 KB)

    Get in touch with the Industry Placement team for more information. Call 01322 629400 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

    You can find out more about the T Levels we offer here

  • Employability Sessions & Mentoring

    Our aim as a college is to ensure we can successfully prepare our students for the industry they are training towards. We achieve this by combining their qualification training with essential employability skills-based training sessions.

    An integral part of the employability skills-based training sessions is to provide access and exposure to Industry professionals who are willing to share their own career journeys and the steppingstone pathways in which they took to map out their successful careers. This also provides an opportunity for students to gain a better insight into the relevant industry and broaden their knowledge of industry, progression routes and opportunities within Industry, and planning for their next steps.

    If you can provide guidance and advice to the workforce of the future, please call us on 01732 372038 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

  • Employment Opportunities

    We are grateful to any employer who is looking to recruit our students. They are required to be in education until they are 18 therefore they are primarily available for part time opportunities.

    Throughout the College academic year we are more than happy to share part time working opportunities with our students.

    If you are looking to fulfil a full time position we can offer these to our students at the end of the academic year only around April/May.

    Please call us on 01732 372038 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to discuss further.

Apprenticeships benefits to employing an apprentice

Apprenticeships are an exciting option for both apprentice and employer. You can employ apprentices at different levels, from school leavers and university graduates to people who want to further their careers or change career direction completely. You can hire someone new or upskill an existing employee. As an employer, you can get funding from the government to help pay for apprenticeship training.

The benefits for your business

Hiring an apprentice is a productive and effective way to grow talent and develop a motivated, skilled and qualified workforce.

  • 86% of employers said apprenticeships helped them develop skills relevant to their organisation.
  • 78% of employers said apprenticeships helped them improve productivity.
  • 74% of employers said apprenticeships helped them improve the quality of their product or service.

Other benefits of working with apprentices include:

  • you can adapt their training according to the needs of your business.
  • they’re motivated to learn new skills.
  • you can expand and upskill your workforce.

There are three levels of apprenticeship available:

  • Intermediate Level 2: equivalent to five A* to C’s at GCSE
  • Advanced Level 3: equivalent to two A Levels
  • Higher Level 4 & 5: equivalent to an HND or Foundation Degree

The Levy

  • Levy employers who take on an Apprentice, can utilise their apprenticeship Levy Funds   to pay for their apprentices training course costs.
  • If you don't pay the Levy and take on a 16–18-year-old, their training costs are FREE - the Government pays this. If they are over 19 years old, you only pay 5% of the cost of training and the Government picks up the other 95%. (This also applies to 19–24-year-olds who have previously been in care or who have a local authority education, health, and care plan.)
  • There is a National Minimum Wage for apprentices. However, many employers prefer to pay more, 
  • The current minimum hourly rate for an Apprentice is £6.40 , This is reviewed annually, and changes will come into effect from the 01st  of April year on year

Employer Incentive's for Hiring an Apprentice

Employers and training providers could get £1,000 each for taking on an apprentice who is either:

Eligibility

  • aged 16 to 18 years old, or
  • aged 19 to 25 years old and has an education, health, and care (EHC) plan or has been in the care of their local authority.