Offering young people a way of gaining the necessary skills and experience to gain employment and progress in their career. Traineeships are a work experience programme where young people who have little or no job place experience can work with an employer for six weeks to six months.
What is an Traineeship?
A traineeship is an education and training programme with work experience that unlocks the great potential of young people, aged 16 to 24, and prepares them for their future careers by helping them to become ‘work ready’.
At its core are a high-quality work experience placement, work preparation training, and English and maths if needed, giving young people the skills and experience that employers are looking for, helping them secure an apprenticeship or other job in the future.
Training & Real Work Experience
At Pathway, our traineeship programmes last a duration of between eight and ten weeks, with trainees spending at least 50% of this time spent at our Training Centre located at our Head Office in Birmingham. The remainder of the traineeship will be spent at an organisations workplace, continuing building on the skills and attributes gained at the centre.
Progression Routes
Once the traineeship programme is complete, trainees are expected to progress in their chosen career path by the way of completing an apprenticeship, or being offered a role at the traineeship organisation. If neither of these are possible then the trainee should be given a formal exit interview with structured feedback.
Traineeship Funding
The costs of a traineeship are fully covered by the government so the only investment required from an organisation is for the development and training of the individual trainee.
Employer Incentives
An additional £111 million is to be invested this year for traineeships in England – amounting to 30,000 new traineeships being offered to young people.
A new payment of £1,000.00 per trainee will be for employers in England that provide high quality work placements for 16-24 year olds (limited to 10 trainees per employer)*
Eligibility for traineeships has been expanded to those who hold up to a level 3 qualification*
As an employer, you will be required to provide an exit interview for your trainees. Alternatively, if there is a suitable vacancy available, you can ask them to apply. The government’s Kickstart Scheme will support you for the first 6 months of employment by covering wages and National Insurance contributions (for 16-24 year olds), which could be worth up to £6,500.00!*
Traineeships – benefits to employers
Short and funded by government
Gives your current employees experience in training and mentoring
Allows you to design a programme that suits both the needs of your business and the needs of the trainee
Can help you increase capacity and productivity
Can help you develop a loyal and talented workforce
Allows you to help tackle youth unemployment
Is a route into an apprenticeship