apprenticeships

digital apprenticeships

Drive innovation, close your digital skills gap, and ensure long-term digital success. Discover how Randstad can provide you access to highly talented and motivated apprentices or upskill your team members to take on a new role.
teaching assistant apprenticeships

Interested in growing your own teaching talent? Our teaching assistant and SEND specialist teaching assistant apprentices are committed to your education setting from the start, offering them a rewarding, work-based route into a career.
marketing apprenticeships

Are you ready to take your marketing campaigns and strategies to the next level? Randstad’s apprenticeship programme can help you bring a fresh perspective to your marketing team, with general marketing and content marketing apprentices, helping you to attract, engage, educate and retain your target audience.
flexi-job apprenticeships

In partnership with the Department for Education (DfE), Randstad is proud to be an approved Flexi-Job Apprenticeship Agency.
The Flexi-Job Apprenticeship programme offers the ability for learners to take on short-term placements at multiple companies, providing access to greater experience across a range of different projects.
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From overcoming skills shortages within your organisation to the need to grow diverse teams and retain top talent, apprenticeships can help to solve these pain points and empower your organisation to reach new heights.

Professional apprenticeships are open to anyone over the age of 16 and operate in a wide range of dynamic, forward-thinking commercial industries and public sectors.

The top three priorities for investing in apprentices:

You can expect to retain more of the people you invest in as apprentices are more likely to stay and work for the organisation that sponsored their training, once they gain their qualification.
You can upskill existing colleagues in your organisation. Apprenticeships are one of the most effective ways to upskill your workforce, helping to measurably improve employees’ skills, and help them become more effective within their roles, while gaining recognised and approved qualifications.
You can transform the diversity of your workforce by hiring people with a wider range of backgrounds, experiences and skill sets. This also allows organisations to benefit from an intergenerational perspective, as people can undertake an apprenticeship at any point in their career.

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how does the Apprenticeship Levy work?

If your wage bill exceeds £3 million, your organisation will be paying into the Apprenticeship Levy scheme. The Levy is charged at 0.5% of your wage bill. This money is collected in your HMRC digital account until it is either spent on apprenticeship training for your organisation or expires after 24 months.

If you don't pay the Levy, or you've already spent your allocation, you are eligible to receive at least 95% government funding for any apprenticeship training opportunities you offer. This makes apprenticeships a highly affordable, cost-effective solution for workplace training for UK employers.

Apprenticeship funding can be used to upskill, train and grow anyone within your company, whether they are a new starter, at the beginning of their career; an existing colleague who could benefit from training; or a staff member who wants a career change within your organisation.
do I have to pay national insurance for my apprentices?

Apprentices under the age of 25 are exempt from employer national insurance contributions.
is hiring an apprentice a positive move for a business?

75% of business leaders think the Apprenticeships Levy is positive for businesses to improve their quality of products and services, according to the Training Journal.
how long does a typical apprenticeship last?

Courses are usually between 15 and 18 months in length, including the necessary assessments.
what are the requirements of joining the new apprenticeships?
Apprenticeships are open to a wide range of learners, giving employers the power to choose their apprentices as long as basic criteria* is met:
- Aged 16 or above
- The learner lives in the UK, is a UK national or is an EU citizen, has been living in the UK or EU continuously for the last 3 years and holds settled or pre-settled UK status
- They will spend at least 50% of their time working in England
- Not enrolled in any other form of education.
* This is not the fully eligibility criteria but a general guide to the most common criteria that causes ineligibility.
what is the enrolment process for the apprenticeship learners?
The enrolment process is designed to ensure readiness and compliance, including legislative requirements needed for funded training, and is implemented across three steps:
- Educate - where we discuss the best qualification for the learner.
- Engage - where the learner will receive more in-depth information specific to the qualification and the requirements.
- Enrolment - where we make sure the learner is ready to start the apprenticeship training and to meet the dedicated skills coach for support along the journey.

end-to-end service

from scoping to enrolment.

Randstad's apprenticeship specialists aim to help tackle your skills shortage by providing you with a fully serviced programme, providing you with access to a talent pool that you can build and shape. With over 160,000 survey respondents rating ‘training’ as a top five employment driver, investing in apprenticeships can help you attract and retain top talent.

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specialists in apprenticeships.

In partnership with our sister company, Pareto - the UK's largest and most successful sales recruitment and training company - employers can expect end-to-end support and access to the UK’s most reputable talent.
support from start to finish.

Our team will run the searching, assessing and placing of the apprentices, taking the pressure off your organisation. You gain access to a pool of apprentices, ready to start their placement with you, and ready to learn on the job.
grow your own workforce.

If you have existing staff members who would like to take up an apprenticeship and benefit from expert training, we can support this, helping you to retain and upskill your existing team.
part of the government flexi jobs framework.

The Randstad Group is a government recognised and approved provider on this framework, meaning that you can take comfort in our expertise. We can also advise you to deliver to the terms of your Apprenticeship Levy.
part of your team.

We will have dedicated account managers to support you, along with dedicated trainers to support apprentices throughout their placements and beyond. You may already work with us for short-term or long-term supply, meaning that the team already knows your school and its values.

Randstad apprenticeships are delivered by Pareto (a Randstad company), approved on the Department for Education's Apprenticeship Provider and Assessment Register. To find out more about Pareto (a Randstad company) see https://www.pareto.co.uk/about-us/

randstad apprenticeships: growing your own talent.