Constructing providers coaching supplier, Logic4training, is introducing a brand new 19+ apprenticeship programme and is looking for employers inquisitive about taking over an apprentice.
Scheduled for launch summer season 2024 at its Northolt centre, the primary apprenticeships will likely be in Fuel Engineering and Sensible Metering. The corporate believes its apprenticeships present a number of advantages over college-based alternate options, together with year-round provision so apprentices can begin at a time to swimsuit the employer, and small class sizes to make sure the very best coaching expertise.
Logic4training will do a block-release mannequin, with in-centre coaching tailor-made when it comes to time and content material (the place attainable) to the wants of a enterprise.
Mark Krull, Director for Logic4training, mentioned: “We’re excited to launch our new apprenticeship programme. Apprenticeships provide an amazing alternative for each the apprentice and the employer; a mutually useful association, which permits companies to cost-effectively upskill somebody to fulfill their particular wants, whereas the trainee ‘earns whereas they study’. Statistically, an apprentice is way extra probably to stick with an employer after coaching is full.
“As skilled coaching suppliers to current installers, we perceive the calls for of working within the trades and have designed our apprenticeships accordingly, offering versatile begin occasions, assist with recruitment and choices for employers with quite a lot of apprentices, for instance. We additionally provide all of the add-on programs required for a future-proof enterprise, resembling warmth pump coaching.
Megan Killen, Head of Apprenticeships at Logic4training, added: “Apprenticeships are a tried, examined and reasonably priced mannequin for bringing in new expertise. Bigger organisations pay into the Apprenticeship Levy, which covers the value of coaching and smaller companies pay simply 5% in direction of this value. Apprentices have to be paid a minimal wage, however on the finish of the method, you’ve got somebody absolutely certified and well-versed within the tradition of your organisation. We glance after all of the coaching aspect and assist each the learner and their employer all through.”
Mark concluded: “Total, the constructing providers sector is experiencing a large expertise scarcity. A latest report instructed we’d like a 78%* enhance in plumbing and heating apprentices to fulfill demand for low carbon heating upgrades. Hopefully we are able to encourage employers in Northolt and the encompassing space to contribute to this uplift.”
*Warmth Pump Affiliation report, Unlocking the Widescale Deployment of Warmth Pumps