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If you are LA maintained, all apprenticeship training is fully funded using the NCC Apprenticeship levy. Your school would only be responsible for the salary costs of your apprentice. The levy can be used for existing members of staff as well new recruits.
Below is a selection of available apprenticeships designed to develop staff working in educational settings.
Considerations when viewing apprenticeship information:
- Duration is listed with additional months for end point assessment added on
- Apprenticeship standards are constantly being revised and updated in terms of both content and funding; therefore, it is advisable to look at the full apprenticeship standard details to check the most up to date information and funding.
Education Learning Staff - Early Years
Apprenticeship Standard | Overview of the Role | Duration + EPA | Funding provided |
|---|---|---|---|
Early years Practitioner Level 2
| Work and interact directly with children on a day-to-day basis supporting the planning of and delivery of activities, purposeful play opportunities and educational programmes within the ethos of the setting. An EYP also supports with observations and assessment of each child, works as part of a professional team to ensure the welfare and care for children and will help to ensure each child feels safe and secure. | 12 months + 3 months | £4,000 |
Highly trained professionals who play a key role in ensuring that young children learn and develop well and are kept healthy and safe. Through an evidence-based approach they provide opportunities and learning experiences for all children including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). | 18 months +3 months | £7,000 | |
Working directly with children, skilfully leading day to day practice providing high quality early education and care to children. They are highly skilled professional who take an operational lead for the care, learning and development of all young children within their care providing inclusive and holistic provision. | 24 Months +3 months | £8,000 | |
Design, planning and delivery of programmes that provide learning and change using outdoor activities and experiences. Outdoor Learning Specialists apply professional outdoor leadership judgement to facilitate safe and effective individual and group learning for children, young people and adults. | 24 months +3 months | £13,000 | |
Educating young people from 3-19 years to achieve the highest possible standards. Teachers make the education of their pupils their first concern and are accountable for achieving the highest possible standards in work and conduct. | 9 months + 1 month | £9,000 | |
Educating young people from 3-19 years to achieve the highest possible standards. Teachers make the education of their pupils their first concern and are accountable for achieving the highest possible standards in work and conduct. | 45 months +1 month | £27,000 | |
To be responsible for the learning, physical, emotional, social and intellectual development, and care of young children from birth to 5 years. | 33 months + 3 months | £27,000 |
Education Learning Staff - Sports/Outdoor
Apprenticeship Standard | Overview of the Role | Duration + EPA | Funding provided |
|---|---|---|---|
Planning, leading and coaching physical activities. The community activator coach promotes, delivers and coaches fun, inclusive and engaging activities that help change behaviour, adopt and keep to a physically active lifestyle. | 18 months + 3 month | £6,000 | |
Devising, developing, adapting and leading the delivery of engaging and innovative sports or physical activity programmes initiating behaviour change with regards to engagement. | 16 months +3 month | £9,000 | |
Use sports knowledge and skills to create and deliver coaching programmes that engage, motivate and evolve pupils skills and performance. School sport coaches collaborate with teachers to develop pupils' mastery of psychomotor skills by applying a whole child approach in their coaching. | 18 months +3 month | £9,000 | |
Design, planning and delivery of programmes that provide learning and change using outdoor activities and experiences. Outdoor Learning Specialists apply professional outdoor leadership judgement to facilitate safe and effective individual and group learning for children, young people and adults. | 24 months +3 month | £13,000 | |
Educating young people from 3-19 years to achieve the highest possible standards. Teachers make the education of their pupils their first concern and are accountable for achieving the highest possible standards in work and conduct. | 9 months +1 month | £9,000 | |
Educating young people from 3-19 years to achieve the highest possible standards. Teachers make the education of their pupils their first concern and are accountable for achieving the highest possible standards in work and conduct. | 45 months +1 month | £27,000 |
Education Learning Staff - Classroom Based
Apprenticeship Standard | Overview of the Role | Duration +EPA | Funding provided |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highly trained professionals who play a key role in ensuring that young children learn and develop well and are kept healthy and safe. Through an evidence-based approach they provide opportunities and learning experiences for all children including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). | 18 months +3 months | £7,000 |
| Supporting the class teacher to enhance learning. TA's ensure pupils understand their work, know their learning objectives and display positive learning behaviours to make progress. They deliver individual and small group teaching and apply a range of strategies to support learners of different abilities under the direction and supervision of a teacher. | 18 months +3 months | £7,000 |
Supporting individual learners and groups of all ages with their learning and development towards agreed goals. | 12 months +3 months | £5,000 | |
Specialist teaching assistants support provision related to special educational needs and disability (SEND), the social and emotional well-being of learners, or within another area of specialist curriculum provision such as forest schools, EAL, subject-based interventions or music education. | 24 months +3 months | £12,000 | |
Teaching young people and adults within all parts of the education and training sector. They will ensure students achieve the best possible knowledge, skills and behaviours by planning and delivering teaching that is current, comprehensive and challenging and that inspires students to engage, progress and achieve their full potential. | 18 Months + 3 months | £7,000 | |
Working directly with children, skilfully leading day to day practice providing high quality early education and care to children. They are highly skilled professional who take an operational lead for the care, learning and development of all young children within their care providing inclusive and holistic provision. | 24 Months + 3 months | £8,000 | |
Educating young people from 3-19 years to achieve the highest possible standards. Teachers make the education of their pupils their first concern and are accountable for achieving the highest possible standards in work and conduct. | 9 months + 1 month | £9,000 | |
Educating young people from 3-19 years to achieve the highest possible standards. Teachers make the education of their pupils their first concern and are accountable for achieving the highest possible standards in work and conduct. | 45 months + 1 month | £27,000 |
Education Learning Staff - Pastoral/ Learning Support Roles
Apprenticeship Standard | Overview of the Role | Duration +EPA | Funding provided |
|---|---|---|---|
Work in a supporting role with young people aged 11-25 to promote their personal, social and educational development. Responsible for the planning and delivery of programmes and projects of youth support work and leading sessions. Youth support workers lead work under the supervision of a degree qualified youth worker. | 18 months +3 months | £4,500 | |
Supporting individual learners and groups of all ages with their learning and development towards agreed goals. | 12 months +3 months | £5,000 | |
Design, planning and delivery of programmes that provide learning and change using outdoor activities and experiences. Outdoor Learning Specialists apply professional outdoor leadership judgement to facilitate safe and effective individual and group learning for children, young people and adults. | 24 months + 3 months | £13,000 | |
Career Development Professional Level 6
| Assisting individuals or organisations before or during career transitions to develop long and short-term career strategies. Responsible for helping individuals assess their own strengths, values, beliefs and situation and connect them meaningfully to the labour market and the education system. | 24 months + 3 months | £9,000 |
Enable young people to develop and working with young people to facilitate personal, social and educational development. Responsible to plan, deliver and evaluate the youth work curriculum and programmes with individuals and groups.. | 36 months + 3 months | £20,000 |
Education Learning Staff - Leadership
Apprenticeship Standard | Overview of the Role | Duration +EPA | Funding provided |
|---|---|---|---|
| Managing a team to deliver a clearly defined outcome/goal, through providing direction, instructions and guidance. Responsible for supporting, managing and developing individuals, managing projects; planning and monitoring workloads and resources, delivering operational plans; resolving problems and building relationships both internally and externally. | 15 months + 3 months | £5,000 |
Work with individuals and teams to empower and engage with them to enhance their professional performance. Coaches build the self-belief of others, regardless of the context, to be curious and self-aware, better equipping them to collaborate, innovate, deal with the increasing pace of change and get the best from increasingly diverse environments. | 14 months + 3 months | £5,000 | |
Managing teams and projects in line with a private, public, or voluntary organisation's operational or departmental strategy. Offering direction, instructions and guidance to achieve set goals. Operations managers provide clear and inclusive leadership and direction within their area of responsibility, setting, managing and monitoring the achievement of core objectives aligned with the organisations overall strategic goals. | 24 months + 5 months | £9,000 | |
Responsible for people, projects, operations and/or services to deliver long term organisational success, with the professional recognition of their ability to deliver impact, behave ethically and demonstrate their commitment to continual learning and development. | 48 months + 3 months | £22,000 |
Education Support Staff - Business Support and Finance
Apprenticeship Standard | Overview of the Role | Duration +EPA | Funding provided |
|---|---|---|---|
Customer Service Practitioner Level 2
| Providing high quality customer service including face-to-face, telephone, digital and written contact and communications. Probably the first point of contact therefore your actions will influence customer experience and satisfaction so you will demonstrate excellent customer service skills and behaviours as well as product and/or service knowledge. | 12 months + 3 months | £3,500 |
Maintaining an efficient and accurate finance function within a business. Responsible for assisting accountants with routine duties such as financial and accounting data entry and basic bookkeeping together with sales and purchase ledgers and running calculations to ensure records and payments are correct. | 12 months + 3 months | £7,000 | |
Carrying out routine financial activities and support. Tasks may include data entry to month end management accounts and year-end financial statements and possible involvement in regulatory financial requirements. Responsible for managing own caseload and time whilst reporting to a more senior accountant. | 15 months + 3 months | £12,000 | |
Supporting and engaging with different parts of the organisation and interact with internal or external customers with a focus on adding value. Business Administrators contribute to the efficiency of an organisation, through support of functional areas, working across teams and resolving issues as requested. | 18 months + 3 months | £5,000 | |
| Managing a team to deliver a clearly defined outcome/goal, through providing direction, instructions and guidance. Responsible for supporting, managing and developing individuals, managing projects; planning and monitoring workloads and resources, delivering operational plans; resolving problems and building relationships both internally and externally. | 15 months + 3 months | £5,000 |
Responsible for delivery and coaching of improvement activity within an area of responsibility resolving problems, preventing re-occurrence, engaging others in issues affecting them and to support the improvement of performance. | 14 months + 3 months | £4,000 | |
Identify and lead the delivery of change across organisational functions and processes leading on small projects and/or play a key supporting role in a larger programme - tackling issues that may require swift problem solving or re-occurring challenges that require in-depth analysis and the implementation of a range of effective and sustainable countermeasures. | 14 months +3 months | £6,000 | |
School Business Professional Level 4
| Administering and managing financial, site and support services within the school context. They provide essential support to school leadership teams, implementing their financial and business decisions. Their work is performed in context of ensuring that public funds are used effectively. | 18 months +3 months | £6,000 |
Education Support Staff - School Support Roles
Apprenticeship Standard | Overview of the Role | Duration +EPA | Funding provided |
|---|---|---|---|
Property Maintenance Operative Level 2
| General day-to-day maintenance required to keep a range of properties in a good state of repair and in a safe working condition. Conduct routing maintenance tasks and minor planned and responsive repair works, wising a broad range of trade skills including carpentry, joinery, plumbing, plastering and decorating. Supporting in the optimisation of building performance and minimisation of environmental sustainability and environmental choices such as recycling and disposal of materials and components in order to achieve net-zero carbon emissions. | 24 months +3 months | £14,000 |
Working as part of a team in kitchen environments working with centrally developed standardised recipes and menus producing food using majority pre-prepared ingredients often in high volumes and adapting to cater for special dietary requirements. | 12 months +3 months | £6,000 | |
Senior Production Chef Level 3
| Leading a team to produce standardised dishes and menus within a kitchen environment reporting to a head chef or appropriate line manager. Senior production chefs have accountability for the day-to-day running of the kitchen service, producing, monitoring and maintaining consistent food standards, legislative requirements and quality across all areas and during all stages of production and supply. | 12 months +3 months | £4,500 |
IT Solutions Technician Level 3
| Develop, implement and maintain complete IT solutions such as networks, operating systems and applications. Working across the whole solutions lifecycle including requirements gathering, solutions development, testing, implementation and ongoing support. | 18 months +3 months | £13,000 |
| Providing routine and one-off testing and technical support in a scientific laboratory environment. Responsible for proactively finding solutions to problems and identifying areas for improving the business. Taking responsibility for the quality and accuracy and working safely and ethically often under regulated conditions. | 24 months +3 months | £21,000 |
Support statutory safeguarding responsibilities and demonstrate how organisations work to protect an individual's health, wellbeing and human rights. SSO's have an emphasis on preventive safeguarding and cooperate with different organisations to support in making informed decisions in safeguarding children and adults. They will be skilled in recognising and responding to emerging safeguarding needs initiating and advocating early intervention when a problem first arises. First point of contact conducting initial risk assessments, triaging and signposting to the most appropriate person with their organisation of external agency | 18 months +3 months | £7,000 |
