Traineeships

A Traineeship is a mixture of work experience and work preparation to help them secure an apprenticeship or employment. It is made up from three core elements:

• High quality work experience with an employer
• Work experience training, provided by the employer
• English and maths support (if required), provided by a training organisation

With a lack of work experience, skills and qualifications, young people are particularly affected by the impact of mass unemployment. The aim of the enhanced Traineeship scheme is to:

• Provide young people with a taste of what it is like to work in a particular industry
• Develop a young persons’ maths, English and employability skills
• Enhance their confidence and help them make decisions about their future

The scheme is for young people across Great Britain:

• Aged 16-24
• Hold level 3 qualification or below (e.g. A Level or below)
• With an education, heath care (EHC) plan

The scheme is available to any business based in Great Britain.

Just some of the benefits to your business include:

• Flexibility - it can be sector focused and is funded by the government
• Provides your current employees experience in training and mentoring
• Allows you to design a programme that suits both the needs of your business and the needs of your trainee
• Can help you increase capacity and productivity
• Can help you develop a loyal and talented workforce
• Allow you to help tackle youth unemployment
• Is a route into an apprenticeship
• Allows you to get to know and work with young people prior to recruiting apprentices

Plus, if you create new work placement opportunities you may receive an incentive payment of £1000 per learner, for up to 10 learners.

Employers must provide a minimum of 70 hours of work experience – but no more than 240 hours for benefit claimants – over the duration of the traineeship (maximum of one year), and as agreed with the traineeship provider.

According to Government, at this time, employers can develop a maximum of 10 new traineeship work placement opportunities.

When offering a traineeship, you need to provide:

• Safe, meaningful and high-quality work experience
• Constructive feedback and advice to the trainee
• An interview for an apprenticeship of 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

According to the Government, employers can start supporting young people on the new Traineeship scheme from September 2020.

For the latest information about Traineeships, visit Gov.uk, or complete the form below and one of our team will be in touch.