Recruitment

Hire an Apprentice


We have worked both multi-national and small independent businesses to help hire apprentices. We have a team dedicated to finding, screening and dealing with prospective apprentices for your organisation. Whatever your brief may be, we have a candidate pool and search and selection process that has excelled organisations early careers hiring.

How does it work?

We will identify the needs of your business based on what you’re looking for and market research trends. This will then allow our dedicated team to post the job opportunity across our channels and begin searching for the right candidates. Finally, we will screen the candidates and forward across those which are a perfect fit for the company.

Employer incentives

Eligibility

Employers could get £1,000 each for taking on an apprentice who is either:

  • aged 16 to 18 years old, or
  • aged 19 to 25 years old and has an education, health and care (EHC) plan or has been in the care of their local authority

What you can use the payment for

You can spend it on any costs associated with supporting an apprentice in the workplace.

For example, on uniforms, your apprentice’s travel or their salary.

How to get the payment

Employers do not need to take any action.

We use confirmation from the training provider that an apprentice is eligible and calculate payments.

Training providers must get consent from apprentices who have EHC plans or have been in the care of their local authority to share this information with the employer. Payment will not be calculated for employers if consent is not provided.

When you’ll get paid

The first payment of £500 should be paid to the employer by the training provider between 90 – 120 days of the apprenticeship training start date.

The final payment of £500 should be paid to the employer by the training provider after 365 days of the apprenticeship training start date.

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