Intermediate Apprenticeships

Intermediate Apprenticeships provide work related training opportunities while you are employed by a company or organisation and paid while you learn.  You gain skills through working with experienced and qualified colleagues and recieved training from IPS trainers and assessors.  You get information advice and guidance through your training and gain your own qualifications and experience. 
 

They offer you the chance to gain a National Vocational Qualification up to level 2 (more), plus the skills and knowledge for your chosen career in the form of a technical certificate.

The learning is to a structured programme laid down by the health and social care industry.

They help you to gain additional skills (known as key skills) in communication and application of number.

Advanced Apprenticeships

Advanced Apprenticeships offer a structured learning programme for employed people. The programme is laid down by the health and social care industry at national level to National Vocational Qualification level 3 (more) including the technical skills and knowledge needed for your chosen career in the form of a technical certificate.

They help you to gain additional skills (known as key skills) in communication and application of number.

They also offer you the chance to gain a higher-level qualification necessary for management or technician jobs.

Candidate Recruitment Requirements

Most entrants to Apprenticeships will have completed compulsory education.

Previous experience and qualifications are not required.

Entrants to Advanced Apprenticeships will be employed and have some relevant experience in senior roles.

Key Skills

Key Skills are skills that are commonly needed for success in a range of activities in education, training, work and life in general.

Employers have taken a lead in promoting the importance of the key skills for employability.

The two primary key skills units are:

ü       Communication

ü       Application of Number

These are portfolio based and also require an external assessment test

The two wider skills units are:

ü       Working With Others

ü       Improving Own Learning and Performance

These are portfolio and work based.

Diagnostic tests allow both you the learner and the trainer to identify areas where you are already competent and areas where there is a need further development.