Employers
Tackle talent shortages, close skill gaps, and cultivate robust talent pools with our suite of impactful apprenticeship programs.
Train the Talent you Need
A trained workforce can deliver improved productivity, increased efficiency and more employee accountability. This can result in a stronger workforce, more aligned to the organisation's goals and a better spread of skills and knowledge across the business. Swatpro will work with you to ascertain the most appropriate training provision to meet your needs.
We collaborate closely with you to understand your business and training needs. Our dedicated onboarding team is here to support you every step of the way, ensuring a smooth and seamless process.
With Swatpro, empower your team through tailored training programs, reduce turnover, and build a dedicated, skilled workforce for sustained success.
Benefits for Businesses
Apprenticeships are a mutually beneficial opportunity. Apprentices gain practical skills, earn accredited qualifications, and receive a salary. Businesses access a motivated talent pool, develop skilled staff, and improve productivity.
Upskill Your Workforce
You know the skills your team needs to drive your business forward. Apprenticeships let you close skill gaps by training new employees from day one, developing the talent your business really needs.
Reduce Your Costs
The ‘apprentice rate’ is lower than standard wages in the first year, and many employers can access funding to help offset costs, making apprenticeships a cost-effective way to grow your team.
Boost Productivity
Apprentices deliver value from day one, supporting daily tasks, gaining practical skills, and contributing to your business’s productivity and growth.
Reduce Turnover
Many apprentices go on to become permanent team members, with 90% staying at their company after completing their qualification, contributing to long-term stability and growth.
Future Proof Your Team
By bringing in new talent with fresh perspectives or transferable experience, you can strengthen your team, introduce new capabilities and develop skills in a cost effective way that supports long term growth.
Built Around Your Business
Training someone from the ground up allows you to shape skills around how your business works, with the flexibility to choose the apprenticeship standard and provider that best fit your needs.
Our apprenticeships cover a wide range of sectors from business administration and customer services, to engineering, construction, early years education, health care and hospitality and catering. We can also offer consultancy on organisation-wide training needs analysis, or deliver bespoke skills development.
Why choose Swatpro as your Learning Provider?
If you are new to apprenticeships, or a small business about to hire an apprentice for the first time, we can provide guidance and assistance in using the Government's Apprenticeship Service platform. In fact, we are one of 15 training providers nationally to have been chosen by the Department for Education to take part in an Expert Provider pilot project. This gives us unprecedented access to additional features within the Apprenticeship Service that are designed to help employers even more.
Matrix Accredited
We provide high quality experts to help you make informed decisions about your learning needs.
Tailored Support
Our collaborative approach is tailored to the needs of our apprentices and business partners.
Not - For - Profit
As a not-for-profit organisation, we focus on delivering quality training that truly benefits learners and employers.
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Employer Guidelines for Apprenticeships
As an employer, knowing your obligations and the optimal ways to support your apprentices is essential for success.
Here are your key responsibilities and how we'll assist you in meeting them at every stage.
Apprenticeship Standard Choice
We'll help you identify the Apprenticeship Standard aligned with your requirements, ensuring your apprentices can fulfil the necessary occupational responsibilities while making an immediate impact.
Employer Mentorship
Swatpro will collaborate closely with your team to understand your needs and develop practical, work-based projects tailored to your business goals, enabling apprentices to apply their newly acquired skills right away.
Track Advancement
Our performance tracking system provides managers with clear visibility, keeping them informed with all essential data to oversee each apprentice, monitor their development, and achieve improved results.
Requirements
To hire an apprentice they must:
be aged 16 or over.
Be working in a job-related role.
have the right to live and work in the UK and meet the eligibility rules for an apprenticeship in England.
be employed with a contract of employment, for long enough to complete the apprenticeship and end-point assessment.
work towards an approved apprenticeship standard in a role that supports the knowledge, skills and behaviours of the occupation.
Be engaged in a job-related role, excluding any other full-time educational programs.
receive paid time during normal working hours for off-the-job training.
receive at least the applicable National Minimum Wage.
Skills Bootcamps
We can also work with you to create a Skills Bootcamp for your organisation.
These short duration courses are built specifically around the needs of your workforce and are largely funded by Local Authorities.
They provide an excellent opportunity to upskill members of your team in the areas that you need, whether that is coaching and mentoring, Digital skills, catering skills or improving customer service.
There are some rules around this provision (attendees must be over 19, the course must result in additional responsibilities or pay award at the end, and you will be asked for a co-payment of either 10% or 30%, depending on business size).
Skills Bootcamps are possibly the most flexible and cost-effective solution to training the workforce, that the Government has backed.
Skills Courses
There are two types of skills courses - learner led, and employer led. Whichever type, there are common themes that run through them:
Attendees must be over-19
Not need to study maths and English
Maximum of 16 weeks of duration
Attendance of at least 60 hours (100 hours for digital courses) over that period.
Learn new skills and knowledge
In line with what local employers are looking for.
Learner - Led Courses
Designed to give you the skills and knowledge to help you find work in a particular sector.
Employer - Led Courses
Specifically designed with the needs of a particular employer (or group of employers) and aim to upskill their workforce.
Case Study
Olivia, from Devon Chamber, consistently delivers high-quality work and meets her targets to a strong standard. Olivia is reliable, focused, and takes pride in doing things properly — qualities that make a real difference day to day.
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Testimonial
I have had an amazing experience with Swatpro and I am so proud to of learnt from you guys , I want to say a massive thank you to Heather , she has been supportive all through an a massive help all throughout the entire time. I wouldn’t have stayed so positive throughout if it wasn’t for heather so I want to personally thank her for everything.
Lara H - Health & Social Care Student
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What can I say other than a BIG thank you. From the first lesson leading to a Level 1 qualification to now a level 2 qualification. You have taught me that anything is possible and I will always be grateful for that, you made me feel at ease from day 1 considering I was a quivering wreck! Thank you
Nick - Maths Student
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His help was truly appreciated, and his assistance was invaluable to us as a team. He was super helpful. He was genuinely invested in getting every detail right, going above and beyond to ensure we produced high-quality, refined parts.
Tiana - Engineering Student
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