Business Apprenticeship
Delivery in the Workplace
Welcome!Groom
Caroline
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 ProvidersFunctional Skills
What 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 ProvidersFunctional Skills
What 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 ProvidersFunctional Skills
All of this Activity only gets us over the starting line....
What else do we need to do?
10 minute Discussion in Groups
Challenges for Providers
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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...
Challenges for Providers
Finding 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
Business Apprenticeships
Delivery in the Workplace
Any
Questions email me at ....
Welcome!
[email protected]