Train to Gain

If your business is to be successful you need to compete, and to compete you need to train your staff, this is where Train to Gain can help you. Train to Gain was developed from the highly successful Employer Training Pilots and rolled out nationally through the Learning & Skills Councils. The focus is on practical training to help your employees raise their standards and update their skills. Train to Gain is a solution to your training needs.

Train to Gain will play a fundamental part in raising skills levels in your business enabling your employees to achieve their full potential and your business to become more economically successful.

If you have any staff who are:

• Over 19 years of age

Then free training is available for them. For further information, please contact Orville Gardener, Vice Principal Business Development on 01473 382464 or email orvillegardener@suffolk.ac.uk.

TRAIN TO GAIN AND YOUR BUSINESS - HOW DOES IT WORK?

We offer skills advice that is impartial, flexible, responsive and offered at a time and place to suit the business. This ensures that the delivery of the training is much more responsive to the needs of the business.

You are six easy steps away from receiving this training and we will support you at every stage:

  1. Analyse the skills your business needs
  2. Identify the right training
  3. Agree a tailored training package
  4. Deliver the qualification
  5. Review the progress you’re making

Step 1: Analyse the skills your business needs

Based on a clear understanding of your business goals, we will work with you to carry out a Training Needs Analysis of your business to assess what skills your business has right now and what it might need in the future.

Step 2: Identify the right training

A number of training recommendations based on the results of the Training Needs Analysis will be identified. These recommendations will help you:

  • Pinpoint the type of training that best suits your needs
  • Choose how and when the training is delivered

Step 3: Agree a tailor made package

Once the type of training has been identified and how and when it is to be delivered a training package will be produced that is tailored to meet your business needs.

Step 4: Deliver the qualification

The training is delivered at your workplace by trainers and assessors who are experienced in the industry.

Step 5: Review the progress you are making

We will provide continual support and work with you to review how you are progressing.

Step 6: Qualifications available

  • Business Administration NVQ level 2 & 3
  • Customer Service NVQ Level 2 & 3
  • ITQ Level 2 & 3
  • Management NVQ level 3
  • Team Leading NVQ level 2
  • Children’s Care, Learning & Development NVQ level 2
  • Teaching Assistants NVQ Level 2
  • Electrical Installation NVQ level 2
  • Engineering (Electrical & Electronics) NVQ level 2
  • Professional Cookery NVQ level 2
  • Food & Drink Service NVQ Level 2 & 3
  • Bench Joinery NVQ level 2 & 3
  • Brickwork NVQ level 2 & 3
  • Carpentry & Joinery NVQ level 2 & 3
  • Painting & Decorating NVQ 2 & 3
  • Accountancy NVQ 2 & 3
  • Hairdressing NVQ 2 & 3
  • Beauty NVQ 2 & 3

For further information visit http://www.traintogain.gov.uk/