‘REALISE’ SKILLS BOOTCAMP TO KICK START NEW EARLY YEARS RECRUITS
The UK’s leading provider of early years apprenticeships has launched a Skills Bootcamp to help attract hundreds of new recruits to the sector and fast-track their training…
The UK’s leading provider of early years apprenticeships has launched a Skills Bootcamp to help attract hundreds of new recruits to the sector and fast-track their training.
Realise launched its ‘apprenticeship accelerator’ programme on February 1 with the aim of recruiting 650 people to the short courses over 18 months.
The Bootcamp, the first of its kind to be funded by the Department for Education, will be open to anyone aged over 19 and training is delivered free of charge to the learner to anybody not currently employed in the early years sector.
This forms part of a wider initiative to help people to get into the Early Years sector. You can explore all of the fantastic opportunities available on Be More here: Early Years – BeMore (bemorestage.awtg.co.uk)
Individuals who complete the Bootcamp will be guaranteed an interview for a job with a local nursery and will automatically be eligible to begin a Level 3 apprenticeship when they secure employment.
Realise will deliver the Skills Bootcamp in person over a three-week course in selected locations – Slough, Liverpool, Northampton and Kent – while the course will be open for applications over the rest of the UK for online courses delivered over six weeks.
Anyone interested in finding out more about the Skills Bootcamp should e-mail Karen Derbyshire, Operations Director for Early Years at Realise, at karen.derbyshire@realisetraining.com
As well as securing a guaranteed interview, those completing the Skills Bootcamp will also have access to career coaches while the process of receiving enhanced DBS checks will begin during the training.
The Skills Bootcamp can be accessed by those working in early years who have not yet secured a Level 2 apprenticeship, although the employer must contribute 10% of the costs if it’s an SME or 30 per cent for large operators.
Realise currently has 1,850 active early years apprentices across more than 1,000 employers in the UK.
EXPLORE CAREERS IN EARLY YEARS HERE : Early Years – BeMore (bemorestage.awtg.co.uk)