Traineeships

Overview

A fully funded Government backed program designed to help you grow your business by offering young people real work experience and the opportunity of a career.

Traineeships help 16 to 24 year olds – or 25 year olds with an education, health and care (EHC) plan – get ready for an apprenticeship or job if they don’t have the appropriate skills or experience.

What’s in it for me?

A traineeship:

• Get £1,000 for each traineeship you can provide (Max 10)
• Get up to 10 extra people in your team without any extra wage bill*
• An opportunity for you to directly support our region’s bounce back
• Help develop the next generation of our region’s entrepreneurs

What’s my commitment?

When offering a traineeship work placement you need to provide:

• A real career opportunity for up to 10 young people
• safe, meaningful and high-quality work experience
• In conjunction with the training provider provide individual(s) from your business to provide coaching, mentoring and support
• constructive feedback and advice to the trainee
• an interview for an apprenticeship or job in your business at the end of the traineeship if one is available
• an exit interview at the end of the traineeship with meaningful written feedback if no job is available

Although traineeships are free to your business, to get the most from them you may want to support trainees with expenses, such as transport and meals.

Designing the programme

Traineeships are flexible. You can adjust the programme as you go to make sure you and the trainee get the most out of it.

Before proceeding there are two questions that you need to think about.

They are:

1. Have you identified suitable individual(s) for the traineeship(s)
2. Do you have a job description for the traineeship?

If not, then you will need to create one, please click here for our template, which may help you.

Let’s assume that you answered Yes, to both of the above. Then the process would start where we would contact approved local trainingship providers and set up a virtual meeting at a time that suits you.

Get started

We specialise in providing access to Government programs to help you grow your business and the region bounce back.

Digital Future First is a part funded EU project; it’s partners (Supplaynt, DBFB and The Learning & Skills Academy) have access to many projects across the SEMLEP region and are here to support you and your business.

Contact us to check your eligibility now.

Find out more about Government Support

Although, we have access to a range of Government programs and incentives, you may want to look at the Government website.

See guidance and resources on good work experience including:

• work experience placements that work guide from CIPD
• employer case studies from Skills Training UK
• why they work videos from the Learning and Work Institute
• work experience quality standard accreditation from Fair Train

Get support to deliver work experience for people with learning difficulties or disabilities from:

• Access to Work