UK and International Training
By ensuring your employees have the right skills to do the best job, Train to Gain can help boost productivity and keep you ahead of the competition.
Working closely with a highly experienced Workforce Development Officer and a Local Train to Gain skills broker, Utilise can provide quality, affordable training for your employees.
Together we can:
- Identify the skills your business needs
- Pinpoint the right training
- Agree a tailored training package
- Find available funding
- Review the progress you are making
Step 1: Identify the skills your business needs
Based on a clear understanding of your business goals, our Workforce Development Officer, works with you to carry out a review and analysis of your business, at no cost, to assess what skills your business has right now, and what it might need in the future.
Our Workforce Development Officers are trained by the Learning and Skills Council. They are specialists in training and have a proven track record of providing effective advice to business.
Step 2: Pinpoint the right training
Our Workforce Development Officer will make training recommendations based on their skills analysis explained in Step 1.
The recommendation will help you:
- Pinpoint the type of training that best suits your needs
- Choose how and when the training is delivered
- Determine which qualifications your employees will benefit most from
Step 3: Agree a tailored training package
Together with our Workforce Development Officer, we will agree a training package.
Step 4: Find available funding
Our Workforce Development Officer will recommend the best ways of funding your training, explaining all the funding options available to you. Train to Gain provides some funding itself.
This might include:
- Funded training to help employees gain their first full Level 2 qualification and Skills for Life first numeracy and literacy qualification. This includes all training towards NVQ Level 2 or equivalent (equal to 5 GCSEs at Grade C or above), Skills for Life programmes, higher level skills and a wide range of other training for your staff.
- Wage compensation for companies with less than 50 employees.
- Funded programmes, including for Apprenticeships and Advanced Apprenticeships, NVQ Level 3 and above, such as higher education.
Step 5: Review the progress you are making
Our Workforce Development Officer will provide continual support and works with you to review how your training is progressing.
Please call Tel: 01257 255700 for more information on our Train to Gain Service
Our future. It's in our hands.
“Our future. It’s in our hands”, just what does this mean?
Our world is changing. We all need more skills than ever before. Thousands of employers - of all sizes - admit that their staff don’t have the right skills needed for the future.
For individuals, two out of three jobs in the future will require a higher level of skills and better qualifications. In fact, in less than ten years there will be very few unskilled jobs. Don’t get left behind: take control of the future with better skills.
Your staff need better skills than ever before for your business to succeed. The world economy is changing with growing competition from developing countries such as China. For the UK to remain competitive there is even greater need for companies such as yours to now start investing in training employees. However, with the many services available through the Learning and Skills Council and strong government support there’s never been a better time to start.
You have a part to play, the answer’s in your hands.