What are Apprenticeships?

The ApprenticeshipNI (AppNI) programme has been introduced to meet the needs of both young people, adults and businesses. They offer quality work based training as an alternative to full time study, leading to nationally recognised qualifications.

Apprenticeships are government funded training programmes (no financial cost to the organisation or employee) that deliver Vocationally Recognised Qualifications (VRQ’s) and National Vocational Qualifications (NVQ’s) in a range of areas.

Each apprenticeship is made up of a framework with 3 elements,

• NVQ units
• Technical Certificate or ERR Booklet
• Essential Skills. (All candidates need to complete the essential skills workshops unless they can produce GCSE certificates in Maths & English grades A-C, also in ICT for some occupational areas).

The programme usually takes between 9 to 15 months to complete and is dependable on each employee going to class and producing the relevant work.

The areas we deliver apprenticeship in are: (link to framework documents)

• Administration
• Care
• Childcare
• Contact Centre
• Customer Services
• Management
• Retail
• Warehousing & Distribution

How can Dairy Farm Training / People 1st deliver for you?

We offer the Apprenticeships in a range of areas including Management at Level 3 (we are the only providers in the majority of NI council areas).

What we would require from your organisation is a commitment to supporting our process and your employee apprentices by way of time for workshops (class/essential skills – depending on the level of support required), taken by a Tutor and time to complete an online technical certificate.  An Assessor and Monitoring Officer will visit each employee at regular intervals to ensure progress with learners Personal Training Plan (PTP) and training.

Classes and workshops can be delivered on site as long as there are a minimum of 8 persons per group.

Eligibility Requirements

There are some requirements that both employers and employees need to meet to be eligible to receive funding for the programme, these include that employees must be employed for 21 hours or more per week.

Please call us for further clarification regarding eligibility.

Benefits of the AppNI programme with People 1st/Dairy Farm Training

• Quality vocational training to complement and standardise your current training requirements for all employees
• Delivery on site (providing there are minimum numbers - group of 8-10)
• Committed dedicated team of support staff including monitoring officers, tutors, assessors and verifiers
• For each employee completing an apprenticeship an employer cheque incentive of £500 (£750 for Management) is issued to the employer. (There are no restrictions/limitations on how an employer should invest/spend this financial incentive).

Your employees and potential apprentices will learn relevant theory/practices, new skills and up-skill in the current role.

The apprenticeship frameworks have been designed by the sector skills councils and industry related bodies this ensures that training is always relevant and tailored specifically to the related sector or industry.

If you are interested in participating in this programme as an Apprentice or an employer or for further information please contact our offices at, Dairy Farm Training, People 1st – Belfast, Lisburn or Banbridge - CONTACT US...