Ready to recruit or already recruited?
Whether you have an apprentice you would like to enrol or you have an apprenticeship vacancy, we have a dedicated Apprenticeship Recruitment team who can manage the process for you.
If you are an employer looking to recruit an apprentice, our team will support you with this. They can advertise, review and send over candidates for you to shortlist and interview. All we will need from you is a job description and some information regarding the vacancy – we can manage the rest.
If you are an employer who has already identified an apprentice or has an existing employee who you would like to enrol onto an apprenticeship, then our team will complete a “pre-enrolment process” with your apprentice. Your designated Apprenticeship Recruitment Adviser will liaise with you to keep you informed of the progress.
It’s time to enrol your apprentice…
Your apprentice will be contacted and asked to complete an initial assessment (English and maths) and a skills scan to identify their starting point. Your apprentice will also be assigned a Training Coordinator who will support their apprenticeship journey once they are enrolled, from induction through to completion.
You will be introduced to your apprentice’s Training Coordinator during the pre-enrolment call. Following this initial meeting, you and your apprentice will be invited into the college for an induction where all the relevant enrolment paperwork will be concluded.
FAQs
Employers can pay their apprentice(s) as much as they like, provided it is not below the National Minimum Wage for Apprentices, which is £7.55 an hour (effective from 1 April 2025). This applies to 16–18-year-old apprentices and those aged 19 and over in the first year of their apprenticeship. If they start working with you before the are enrolled onto their apprenticeship, they should not be paid below National Minimum Wage for their age during this time. Their hourly rate can revert to apprenticeship minimum wage once they have been enrolled.
The apprentice must have a contract with you which is long enough for them to complete the apprenticeship successfully (including their end point assessment). Apprentices cannot be individuals who are self-employed.
The wage for apprentices applies to both time spent on-the-job, plus time spent training.
No, apprentices can be any age, however the funding does vary depending on age.
End point assessment (EPA) is the final stage of an apprenticeship. It is an impartial assessment to determine whether your apprentice has developed the skills, knowledge and behaviours outlined in the apprenticeship standard.
Don’t just take our word for it, hear from Neville Trust about their experience taking on an apprentice with us.
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Interested in taking on an apprentice or want to learn more about how it all works? Just fill in the form below, and a member of our team will get in touch to talk you through the next steps.
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