Skills
Bootcamps
Part of the Government’s Lifetime Skills Guarantee, helping everyone gain skills for life.
What are Skills Bootcamps?
Skills Bootcamps are fully funded, flexible courses of up to 16 weeks, giving adults the opportunity to build up sector-specific skills and fast-track to an interview with an employer, or to progress in their current role as part of the Government’s Lifetime Skills Guarantee, helping everyone gain skills for life.
As part of the 2019 manifesto commitment to invest £3bn through the National Skills Fund, the DfE’s Skills Bootcamps aim to help out-of-work adults learn valuable new skills or employed individuals to further enhance their skills and productivity, to better respond to a rapidly evolving labour market.
Looking to Upskill or Reskill?
If you’re looking to increase your skills in a specific area, learn new skills, fast track into a new job, or boost your career with your current employer, our Skills Bootcamp in Construction courses could be the right choice for you.
Entry Requirements
Skills Bootcamps are open to adults aged 19 and over who are either:
- employed
- self-employed
- recently unemployed within the last 12 months
- returning to work after a break
Employers, Employed and Self-Employed
If you are a business looking to up-skill your current employees, or a employed or self-employed construction worker, then our Skills Bootcamps are ideal, enabling you/your employees to develop skills you/they need, and you/your business to stay ahead of the curve.
We offer the following Skills Bootcamp in Construction training:
- National – Department for Education (DfE) | Construction Skills People (skillspeoplegroup.uk)
- New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership (NALEP) | Construction Skills People (skillspeoplegroup.uk)
To be eligible to access funding, you/your staff member should be aged 19 or over.
Call now to check eligibility, or to find out more…Employers, fill out this form, Employed/Self-Employed fill in this form, and one of our friendly and knowledgeable team members will get back to you shortly.
Unemployed
We are delivering a range fully funded Construction trade training courses through DfE Skills Bootcamps. These fully comprehensive 4-week courses a choice of:
- Skills Bootcamps in Thermal Wall Insulation Installation with a Trade | Skills Academies
- Skills Bootcamps in Construction Trades | Skills Academies
To be eligible to access funding, you should live in the East Midlands or South Yorkshire areas or be able to get to our centres in Derby, Doncaster, Nottingham, Rotherham, Sheffield, or Worksop. You will also need to be able to commit to 4 weeks of learning and travel and be aged 19 or over. Call now to check eligibility, or to find out more fill out this form and one of our friendly and knowledgeable team members will get back to you shortly.
Learner Benefits
- Ideal for individuals looking to advance their career through up-skilling or re-skilling
- Participation in engaging activities that expand learners’ thought and reasoning, and help put their new and expanded expertise into practice
- Access to skilled curriculum tutors that provide the support learners need to thrive and succeed
- Develop learner’s skills, knowledge, and confidence to enhance and enrich their future work life and personal development
- Customised learning support from our exceptional team of Learner Support Advisors
- Support with future progression through our Learner Engagement Officers
Employer Benefits
- Quickly develop a loyal and skilled workforce that possess the skills your business needs
- Enable your business to swiftly respond to an evolving labour market
- Improve productivity with staff that are motivated to learn new skills, and provide new ideas and insight
- Employ the right skill-set from the beginning and save time and money on recruitment
- Up-skill your employees to develop and excel internally whilst increasing staff retention
- Freedom to enrol multiple cohorts of learners or to interview learners graduating these programmes
- Receive advice and support from a trustworthy Skills Bootcamp provider
To find out more fill out this form and one of our friendly and knowledgeable team members will get back to you shortly.