Berkshire Skills Bootcamps – Wave 6
Submit your proposal for a grant award to deliver Skills Bootcamps in Berkshire.
Are you a training provider with close links to employers? An employer seeking to fill a skills gap with trained staff? Or simply looking to support the local Berkshire economy by upskilling people and helping them progress at work?
Berkshire Skills Bootcamps are free*, flexible courses of up to 16 weeks, giving people the opportunity to build up sector-specific skills and fast track to interview with an employer upon completion.
In Berkshire, Skills Bootcamps will be available, but not limited to, the following industries:
- Construction and the Build Environment
- Engineering and Manufacturing
- Digital
- Sales, Marketing and Procurement
- Creative and Design
- Business and Administration
- Education and Early Years
- Transport and Logistics
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That ability of being able to properly work with an employer, to design something from scratch that they want and they need I think is the benefit of the Skills Bootcamp model. Perfect.
Enquiries Deadline: 17 Jan 17:00
Proposal Deadline: 27 Jan 17:00
To support adults to retrain and help employers to fill current skills shortage vacancies, either regulated (i.e., qualification based) or non-regulated (e.g., based on alignment with industry standards).
Co-designed with employers to respond to skills shortages, with our priority sectors being Screen Industries, Construction and Built Environment, Health and Life Sciences, Care, Haulage and Logistics and Digital.
Open to individuals in Berkshire aged 19+ from all employment backgrounds and experience level, focusing on sectors that employers are actively looking to recruit. Criteria applies such as Right to Work in the UK.
Funding 100% for independent learners and partial for employed learners who are sponsored by their employer (90% for SME employers, 70% for large employers).
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About You
To deliver, an organisation must be registered with the UK Register of Learning Providers. Registration is subject to UKRLP verification procedures. More information here.
Training providers must clearly demonstrate how outputs will benefit Berkshire businesses and residents. Sole Traders must have ICO registration.
Applicants will need to demonstrate a clear demand for their Skills Bootcamps proposal from employers with an evidenced commitment to interview candidates (where participants are independent learners). All proposals should strongly demonstrate how employers have been consulted on the curriculum/skills needs during the development stage.
Your Skills Bootcamp
- Skills Bootcamps must be delivered between Level 2 – 5.
- Courses on offer must be for a minimum of 60 Guided Learning Hours (GLH) and a maximum of 16 weeks duration
- Providers must demonstrate in their proposal the provision of a ‘wraparound service’ of learner support (for example, using a coaching and mentoring approach, from programme application stage, during, and post programme, to move people into jobs/new roles and opportunities.
- Learners to receive a guaranteed job interview upon the completion of the Skills Bootcamps (in the case of a new job).
- Provision may be delivered face to face, remotely online (live) or a blended approach.
- All training must either be accredited, aligned to occupational standards managed by the Institute for Apprenticeship & Technical Education, or utilise a recognised standard for representing attainment (e.g., RARPA, SFIA).
