Employers

Hiring an apprentice is a cost-effective way to grow your workforce and develop new talent, with significant government support available to help cover training costs.

In England, apprenticeship training is funded through either the Apprenticeship Levy or a can be fully funding via the government, depending on the size of your business. More information on funding an apprentice can be found here

The main benefits of our apprenticeship programmes are:

We incorporate additional technical training that goes beyond standard apprenticeship. The extra training can be tailored to suit your company. During our foundation training, the apprentice can attend full time 5 days a week, 3 days per week or 1 day release helping to mould an apprentice to your business.
We have strong success rates and almost all our apprentices go on to full time employment with their sponsoring employers.
You will have highly skilled individuals on completion of the apprenticeship, specifically trained with the core skills required by your business.
We invest in the personal development of the apprentices, so that they gain transferable skills to make them valuable members of your workforce.
Our review system operates every six weeks, so that we very closely monitor and guide the apprentices in their development.
We are passionate about manufacturing, electrical and mechanical engineering, three of the fundamental building blocks of industry and our particular fields of expertise.

In return you will invest in;

a higher skilled workforce, developing your organisation to fill skills gaps already existing as apprenticeships help develop current skills gaps within with organisation.
able to develop existing employees by upskilling or reskilling using apprenticeships to develop those employees to develop.
investing in people helps your staff retention data, resulting in more motivated staff keeping people with new and key skills to fill your skills gap areas.
increase quality and productivity.

Apprenticship Standards

The new standards offered at Waterside Training are below. The links will take you to each standard in detail via the Skills England website.