Employability Practitioner's help people to address and overcome obstacles to secure employment.
Do you have staff that would benefit from undertaking this apprenticeship and you wish to upskill or do you wish to hire an apprentices to your business? Either way, we are happy to help!
Course information
During this course they will learn a full range of skills that an employability practitioner needs including -
- how to use a wide range of holistic assessments and diagnostics
- how to develop and use SMART, holistic and in-depth work-focused action plans
- how to deliver a wide range of interventions
- how to deal with complaints
- A wide range of coaching and mentoring techniques for use with service users and colleagues
- how to manage caseloads effectively
- how to communicate to a high standard, both verbally and written
- how to anticipate and de-escalate challenging behaviour in service users
- how to network with internal and external customers
- develop your ICT and digital skills
and many more
The employability practitioner apprenticeship standard contains a list of skills, knowledge and behaviours that will need to have been learnt by the end of the apprenticeship.
Course duration
24 months plus 3 months End Point Assessment (EPA)
Funding and Incentives
Large Businesses
Employers from both the public and private sectors, with a payroll of more than £3 million, will have to pay a 0.5% into the levy fund to pay for apprenticeships. Levy paying employers will be able to reclaim their contribution via their Digital Account Service to “pay” for apprenticeship training and assessments.
Small Businesses
If you hire a 16 to 24 year old Apprentice after the 1 October 2026 you could be eligible to claim a £2000 incentive payment from the Government
Employers who do not pay into the apprenticeship levy who employ an apprentice aged 16 to 21 years old will not be required to make any financial contribution towards their cost of training. If the apprentice is aged 22 or over then the company would pay a 5% contribution (£250) payable in instalments if required.
16 to 18 Incentive Grant - all companies
All size businesses will receive a £1,000 cash incentive for employing a 16 to 18 year old apprentice.
Contact us
Please call us on 01482 615 349 or email on business@hullcc.gov.uk