Traineeships

Employer information

 What is a traineeship?

 Traineeships are short flexible training programmes, lasting between 6 and 12 weeks, designed to identify your next generation of Apprentices and build a talent pipeline for your organisation.

Our eight-week traineeship programmes provides you with an alternative talent attraction model, introducing new employees to your organisation and enabling you to shape them to your business requirements. With such a broad spectrum of skills currently in the jobs market, an opportunity of work experience for a candidate can be the first step to a new career and the first step to new talent in your organisation.

Traineeships combine both classroom-based employability and skills training alongside 70 hours of work experience placement within your organisation and with full Government funding available provide an excellent opportunity to develop a young person’s career and your organisation’s talent pool!

How the traineeship programme works

Traineeships provide an excellent foundation for future Apprentices.   With such a diverse range of young people available and looking for work opportunities, traineeships provide a unique experience providing the opportunity for candidates to explore your organisation, develop knowledge and skills and experience life and as employees developed to meet the needs of your organisation, its ethos and values.

Skillnet assesses the needs of the potential trainee at the outset and then plan and agree:

  • The length of the work experience placement
  • The days the trainee works
  • How the programme will be delivered

Traineeships are flexible, engaging, innovative and fun opportunities for all involved. As an employer, you will be provided with the opportunity to amend and adjust the programme as you go ensuring that it always meets the needs of your organisation.

What do we need from you?

As an employer engaging with a traineeship programme, you will need to provide:

  • A safe and meaningful work experience placement for a minimum of 70 hours.
  • Constructive feedback and advice to the trainee, ensuring that you are completing timesheets and maintain records relating to the trainee’s performance.
  • A job interview and feedback to the trainee. Where a trainee is not suitable for your business, you should provide them with and exit interview, career feedback and a reference for future training and employment opportunities.

Benefits to employers

The benefits of traineeships extend to businesses as well. Trainees can form the beginning of an organisation’s talent pipeline​, they can help to increase capacity and productivity,​ and employers can get to know and work with young people prior to recruiting apprentices.​ Offering a young person an opportunity through a dedicated traineeship programme will provide your organisation with the opportunity to:

  • Get to know and work with a young person to see if they are right for your business, an apprenticeship, or a job in your organisation.
  • Design a traineeship programme that suits the needs of your organisation and the young people you are supporting.
  • Develop the training and mentoring skills of your existing employees.
  • Recruit new talent for your organisation and create a sustainable talent pool that supports your succession planning.
  • Claim an employer incentive of £1,000 when the work experience placement of over 70 hours has been completed.

Incentives

Employers who make new work placement opportunities available may be eligible for an incentive payment of £1,000 per trainee they support.  This incentive payment can be claimed for up to 10 trainees per region. As an Employer you can decide how to use the money!

Don’t delay, contact our specialist recruitment team today and one of our advisors will help you secure the future talent of your organisation!

Find out more by calling one of our friendly, helpful advisors on 0800 0350663