Traineeships & Return to Work Programmes

The delivery will vary from student to student, dependent upon your age, employment status, career goals, work readiness and prior attainment. The delivery is flexible so you can focus on the skills you need to develop to secure employment and be effective in a job role. As an adult student, you will be able to join the programme at certain start points; the programmes designed on a roll-on roll-off basis.

Work preparation training covers both the skills that you will need to find and secure employment (for example, job search techniques, CV writing and interview skills) and the skills and attributes that you need to sustain employment.

English and maths: Employers are clear that literacy and numeracy are crucial employability skills, so English and maths form a key part of return to learn and Traineeships.  Studying and achieving maths and English helps you to progress to further study, training and skilled employment.

Digital Skills: to gain tuition in digital skills up to and including Level 1.  The skills you will learn:

• Using Devices and Handling Information
• Creating and Editing
• Communicating
• Transacting
• Being Safe and Responsible Online

Vocational: The flexible content of Return to learn and Traineeships includes high quality and relevant vocational qualifications, skills required by the local labour market, employers, business, commercial and enterprise skills to name but a few. Our vocational courses are studied online with workshop support from an experienced tutor. You may choose from a range of level 2 courses including user IT, principles of customer service, infection prevention and control, equality and diversity, mental health awareness, allergy awareness, nutrition.

These courses can be studied at home online and include bookkeeping and Accounting; Principles in Team Leadership Level 2; Prevention and control of Infection Level 2 plus many more to choose from.

Yes! Students aged 24+ in receipt of these benefits are required to be available for work at all times. The return to learn programme is designed to be flexible, there are five start points, which allow you to “step off” at the point that you find employment. We can then offer advice and guidance on your “next steps” and offer you a range of classroom or online courses that fit in with your working pattern.