Enrolment and Starting the Apprenticeship
This is the easy bit of the process!
Once you have decided to enrol a member of staff onto our apprenticeship programme, we ask you to complete an enrolment request form (you can download this by clicking on the button below) and then submit it to us!
Our programmes are “roll-on-roll-off”, so your member of staff can start their apprenticeship at any time of the year. The duration will also be flexed to suit the requirements of both you and your Apprentice (also taking into account the potential progression plans).
On receipt of the enrolment request form:
- If we haven’t already spoken with you, we will also organise an introductory phone call to discuss your requirements in detail so that we can structure the apprenticeship programme, flexed to your needs.
- We will issue a “Skill Scan” document for your apprentice to complete. This is mapped to the learning outcomes for the apprenticeship and will identify if we need to adjust the apprenticeship for any “Recognition of Prior Learning”.
- Our admin team will then issue apprenticeship documents to your apprentice for completion, including Initial Assessments in Maths and English.
- Your apprentice’s personal tutor will then arrange an induction session on Teams to run through the programme in detail with them. This will effectively be the “1st day of learning” and the Apprenticeship start date.
- Prior to this induction, you will be sent a link to our Apprenticeship platform for confirmation of your agreement to everything and completing “the sign up”. It is important that this is done prior to, or on the day of, the induction and 1st day of learning.
Accessing Funding
In order to draw down the funds for an apprentice, they will need to be added onto the Apprentice Service.
If you are a Levy payer you will already have an account.
If you are an SME and have had an apprentice before, you should also already have an account.
If not, you will need to create an account. The DfE have created a useful video walkthrough explaining how to do this – just click on the button below to watch their video:
This blog page provides the same information on how to create your apprenticeship service account – just click on the button below to read the blog:
Once you have set up your account, you can add us as a training provider and set the permissions so that we can add or amend apprentice records. This will mean that, provided we have received our Apprentice Application Form, we can add all of your apprentice’s details for you, and you just need to check and approve them after.
In order to add us as a training provider, you will need our UKPRN, which is 10042735.