Powering our future workforce

TeenTech and the Lancashire Digital Skills Partnership helping to engage young people during the lockdown half-term.

Over the past month, TeenTech with the Lancashire Digital Skills Partnership (LDSP) has delivered TeenTech Innovation Live (for students aged 11-19) and TeenTech City of Tomorrow Live sessions (for students aged 8-13) to hundreds of students across Lancashire!

Due to the success of the programme and continued demand from young people, teachers and parents, TeenTech and LDSP are delighted to announce that they are making these sessions available again during half-term, as well as a few extras!

Families or schools can register for these free sessions here: http://teentech.com/live/lancashire

Incentive payments for hiring a new apprentice

For apprentices with an employment start date from 1 April 2021 to 30 September 2021. Applications close on 30 November 2021.

You will be able to apply for a payment of £3,000 for apprentices with an employment start date from 1 October 2021 to 31 January 2022 once applications open in January 2022.

Find out more by clicking here .

INSPIRA are working in partnerships with back to work training to enhance your knowledge and digital skills with a FREE Digital Skills course with a FREE TABLET.

This course will give you the confidence and the information in order to pursue a successful career in Digital media or the IT sector.

The criteria needed in order to access the training is:

Must already have a PC or laptop
Must complete a maths and English course
Must be 19 or older from the 31 Aug 2019
Must be claiming some form of benefits.

After you have passed and completed the course then you will receive the free tablet

Full guidance and support will be provided throughout.

Inspira Digital

Enterprise Adviser Campaign - Make sure every school across Lancashire has an Enterprise Adviser supporting them to make sure every student has the best career provision possible.

https://enterpriseadviser.careersandenterprise.co.uk/

Free Training Sessions with DigiEnable*

Two projects we are working on this month are free for you to join, learn and engage with us! Join now as seats are filling fast!

Embrace Digital Project - For Lancashire based businesses - Click Here
A wide range of digital and productivity sessions delivered by local businesses including our Liz's sessions...
Zoom for Business
Get LinkedIn or Get Left Out
Intro to Canva
Digital Project Management Tools
Intro to Microsoft 365/Office 365

Digital Marketing Skills 4 All
We have teamed up with 4 other Digital Marketing Trainers from across the North of England to deliver on a project being delivered by business support specialists Enterprise4All. Participants will be guided through 10 weeks of intense digital training, giving them all the skills to market their, or others businesses effectively.

*Eligibility criteria applies, further details on application via the links above

The NHS Trusts and Care Providers within the region have launched a website to help you find the career of your choice within the Lancashire and South Cumbria region. Find out about working in the NHS and Care - https://nhscareersnw.co.uk/

Runshaw Open Event

Interested in studying an apprenticeship @ Runshaw, or furthering your Maths, English or Digital skills in February? Then please don’t miss Runshaw’s January online Open Event on Wed 19th Jan 4-7pm.

Find out more, and register, by clicking here.

Covid-19

Government guidance for apprentices, employers, training providers and assessment organisations in response to the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19)

Lancashire Mind have produced a useful booklet looking at the following topics:

looking after your wellbeing
a focus on working from home
furlough.

This guide explores the effects of changing work patterns, uncertainty and job loss and how this can have an effect on your mental health and wellbeing.

South Ribble Youth Hub

South Ribble Borough Council, working in partnership with Jobcentre Plus, have created a useful guide to help and advice on health, wellbeing and employment support for young adults. Please see the leaflet below, which has links to a range of local support services.

Youth Hub Help Leaflet

Resilience Resources

There are a number of organisations offering health and wellbeing support and help with developing emotional resilience. Please see the links below to the external organisations which offer support.

www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/

www.youngminds.org.uk Download Mindfulness Activities Click here

www.mentalhealth.org.uk/publications?utm_source=email&utm_medium=referral

www.mentalhealth.org.uk/publications/how-to-mental-health

Kickstart scheme

The kickstart scheme is a government initiative that provides funding to employers to create job placements for 16 – 24 year olds. This is a six month placement to help young people to develop their skills and provide them with work experience.

Employers and jobseekers can find out more about the Kickstart scheme via the government website.

If you would like to offer Kickstart placements at your business, please contact us info@businessinsouthribble.com so we can help you to apply.

Get a Head Start with Kickstart

Apprenticeship Vacancies

Runshaw Vacancies Poster

Autofit Chorley - Apprenticeships

Medisanitize in Chorley vacancy for an Office Administrator

T-Levels

Examples of how businesses are making the most of T Level industry placements click here

Jobs | Blackburn College.

DWP Digital have just launched their digital and technology apprenticeships, giving you the opportunity to earn while you learn.

If you’re successful, you’ll get:

A permanent Civil Service job
A starting salary of £27,000 plus benefits
The chance to gain industry-standard qualifications, and
To work on projects that have a positive impact on people’s lives

It doesn’t matter whether you’ve recently left education or you’re looking for a change of career. Our apprenticeships are open to anyone who can demonstrate an interest in engineering.

Here’s a link to the career’s website for more information about the eligibility criteria, salary and application process.

https://www.runshaw.ac.uk/apprenticeships-vacancies/

https://www.preston.ac.uk/apprenticeships/apprenticeship-vacancies/

https://www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk/apprenticeshipsearch

Blackburn College link to vacancies

Apprentice Factory

South Ribble Borough Council Apprentice Factory provides impartial, specialist support to businesses, people considering a career change and students planning their future careers, by providing a comprehensive and complete range of skills and training advice and guidance in a one-stop-shop.

The Apprentice Factory offers your business impartial advice and support in finding the best solutions for skills and workforce development needs. We can help with recruitment support, local labour market information and guidance on affordable training options for your workforce. Let us save you time by connecting you directly with the right provider.

If you are considering a career change, the Apprentice Factory can offer you guidance on skills support, local apprenticeships and training and routes to alternative employment opportunities in growing areas of the economy.

For students planning their future careers, the Apprentice Factory offers you information, advice and guidance about future employment opportunities locally, the skills required by employers and career progression routes including the apprenticeships that are available, right up to degree level.

South Ribble Apprentice Factory will support local businesses to create quality apprenticeships, ensuring that the skills supply is appropriate to local skills demands and helping local people to access and benefit from the new job opportunities being created through economic growth in South Ribble.

Developing tomorrows workforce today……

Skills for Work

Lancashire Skills and Employment Hub have brought together information about support that can help you get a job, and if you are employed there is help for you to learn new skills. Over 50 organisations across the whole of Lancashire are working together to make it easy for you to find work and training.

There are 100's of offers across Lancashire here to help you learn new skills or to support your health & wellbeing.

https://www.skillsforwork.info/southribble

Businesses

The Apprentice Factory will offer your business bespoke support to help you to upskill and develop your employees to meet the current and future skills needs of your business in a complex and rapidly changing world.

We can:

Help you to find the right apprenticeships for your business.
Support you to meet your workforce skills needs by discussing and researching the best training solutions for your business,connecting you directly with the right providers.
Promote your business skills needs to young people in schools, who are planning their future careers, inspiring them to apply to your business for employment.
Link your business with digital training opportunities, enabling your workforce to acquire the skills to become digitally connected.
Support your talent acquisition through recruitment events and promotion.
Help simplify the process of managing an apprenticeship through the Governments digital account system.
Help you to navigate through multiple training offers by providing one-stop advice, bespoke to your business needs.
Identify and help you access any financial support available from the Government.
Connect you with leadership and management training to enable you to lead, inspire and nurture your workforce.
Benefit your business by saving your time, making the right contacts, simplifying the processes and helping you recruit apprentices who are right for your business.

Talk to us and let us take the work out of meeting your skills needs.

“At the Apprentice Factory we are here to give you independent advice to help you develop your workforce
skills.”

Phone: 01772 625567

Email: apprenticefactory@southribble.gov.uk

Web: www.apprenticefactory.com

Apprentice Factory

South Ribble Borough Council Apprentice Factory provides impartial, specialist support to businesses, people considering a career change and students planning their future careers by providing a comprehensive and complete range of skills and training advice and guidance in a one-stop-shop.

The Apprentice Factory offers businesses impartial advice and support in finding the best skills solutions for their workforce. We can help with recruitment support, local labour market information and guidance on affordable training options for your workforce.