After the recent National Apprenticeship Week, Chubb Fire & Security Ltd reports that it’s playing a role in determining new Apprenticeship standards and assessment criteria for the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills Trailblazer initiative.
Including more than 1000 employers from 70 industries, the government-led Trailblazer initiative is designed to create a list of the skills, knowledge and behaviours that employers would expect from qualified apprentices. The aims is that the reputation of apprenticeships is on a par with a university degree. The new apprenticeships will be based on outcomes rather than qualifications and feature an assessment at the end of the training.
Chubb reports that it has 48 apprentices working at 21 branches. Over the past 20 years, Chubb has retained more than 40 per cent of its apprentices, placing them into full-time jobs.
David Millett, head of learning and development at Chubb, said: “At Chubb, our employees have the potential for a lifelong career so we have a responsibility to ensure there is a pipeline of qualified, competent and engaged engineers and potential managers coming into the industry. We have welcomed this initiative as it gives us the ability to refresh engineering skills and knowledge with the latest industry training. It will help us instill Chubb values at the earliest opportunity and will afford us a higher quality of work with a clear return on investment.”
The installer offers two apprenticeship tracks: a three-year Chubb Fire & Security apprenticeship to earn Level 3 qualifications and a four-year Chubb Systems apprenticeship to earn Level 4 qualifications. Visit http://www.chubb.co.uk/.
After the submission of the new standards on June 5, assessment plans will be agreed by October 2, with implementation to begin in 2016. It is expected that the framework-based apprenticeships will not be funded for the calendar year 2017/18.
