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Virtual Taster
Funding theme:

Careers

Funding topic:
Careers and recruitment
Project lead:
Careers Collective Ltd
Amount awarded:
£29,950
Project summary:

The Virtual tasters project will develop a standard and quality that positively promotes construction as an aspirational career path and is engaging and informative to support individuals to consider a career in construction.

Careers Collective Ltd will work in close collaboration with Education providers Experience Hubs to ensure the virtual tasters are aligned to their needs, and the outputs from this commission can be successfully incorporated into the Onsite Experience programme and that virtual tasters can be rolled-out to a wider audience within the construction industry.

Leadership and Management Direct Delivery - North of England
Funding theme:

Training and Development

Funding topic:
Leadership and management
Project lead:
The OM Group
Amount awarded:
£1,871,700
Project summary:

The OM Group was established over 14 years ago as a national provider of health and safety consultancy and training for the Construction and Build Environment sector. We have extensive real-life experience in the industry, which informs the training courses and programmes that we deliver. This allows us to provide relevant and authentic, practical advice and guidance to all our clients. Our approach is to ensure that employers in the industry understand the benefits of providing their front-line managers, Site Managers and Site Supervisors with Leadership and Management skills, to enable those individuals to make informed decisions that positively impact productivity, safety and commercial outcomes for both construction projects and the business in which they work.

Leadership and Management Direct Delivery - Scotland
Funding theme:

Training and Development

Funding topic:
Leadership and management
Project lead:
The OM Group
Amount awarded:
£1,113,250
Project summary:

The OM Group was established over 14 years ago as a national provider of health and safety consultancy and training for the Construction and Build Environment sector. We have extensive real-life experience in the industry, which informs the training courses and programmes that we deliver. This allows us to provide relevant and authentic, practical advice and guidance to all our clients. Our approach is to ensure that employers in the industry understand the benefits of providing their front-line managers, Site Managers and Site Supervisors with Leadership and Management skills, to enable those individuals to make informed decisions that positively impact productivity, safety and commercial outcomes for both construction projects and the business in which they work

Leadership and Management Direct Delivery - The OM Group
Funding theme:

Training and Development

Funding topic:
Leadership and management
Project lead:
The OM Group
Amount awarded:
£1,593,400
Project summary:

The OM Group was established over 14 years ago as a national provider of health and safety consultancy and training for the Construction and Build Environment sector. We have extensive real-life experience in the industry, which informs the training courses and programmes that we deliver. This allows us to provide relevant and authentic, practical advice and guidance to all our clients. Our approach is to ensure that employers in the industry understand the benefits of providing their front-line managers, Site Managers and Site Supervisors with Leadership and Management skills, to enable those individuals to make informed decisions that positively impact productivity, safety and commercial outcomes for both construction projects and the business in which they work

Leadership and Management Direct Delivery - MKC Training
Funding theme:

Training and Development

Funding topic:
Leadership and management
Project lead:
MKC Training
Amount awarded:
£2,166,095
Project summary:

MKC Training (MKCT) was originally formed in 2008 to provide skills training to the Royal Engineers at the Royal School of Military Engineering (Construction Engineer School) based in Medway, Kent. With considerable expertise in trade and management skills, gained over decades, we now provide a full range of award-winning learner-centric training services to construction and engineering businesses and other sectors, providing expertise in the full learning cycle from needs analysis through to delivery and evaluation.

Leadership and Management Direct Delivery - Danny Sullivan and Sons Ltd
Funding theme:

Training and Development

Funding topic:
Leadership and management
Project lead:
Danny Sullivan and Sons Ltd
Amount awarded:
£1,686,690
Project summary:

As one of the UK’s leading labour suppliers working across all major UK Infrastructure Projects, the partnership between Danny Sullivan and Sons Ltd and Deere Apprenticeships Ltd believes we have the ability to engage with an array of employers from major Tier 1 Contractors to SME’s seeking to grow the competency and skillset of their workforce. Through utilisation of our collaborative resources and an aligned marketing strategy, we forecast strong engagement from both individuals and organisations seeking to avail of this brilliant CITB initiative to tackle the ever-present skills shortage in our industry.

Structural Concrete Alliance Training & Assessment Scheme
Funding theme:

Training and development

Funding topic:
Sectors and roles, Small employer support
Project lead:
Structural Concrete Alliance
Amount awarded:
£18,550
Project summary:

To increase the number of assessors within specified sectors.

Assessors and IQAs will be recruited and trained to provide assessment resource for the trades covered under the Structural Concrete Alliance . Consequently , the number of assessors available in the industry and assessors via IQAs will increase, this will result in an increase in qualified leaners to NVQ standard linked to the three trade represented within the Alliance.

Timewise: Designing Flexible Career Pathways in Construction
Funding theme:

Careers

Funding topic:
Changing industry culture, Productivity and new ways of working, Learning resources, Careers and recruitment, Leadership and management, Small employer support
Project lead:
Build UK
Amount awarded:
£30,000
Project summary:

The Timewise: Designing Flexible Career Pathways in Construction project will work with several major contractors and their supply chains to gain new insight into how to make flexible working work in the construction industry, by designing and piloting new approaches to flexible working construction sites and in HQ offices, in order to evaluate, codify and share insights to create roadmap for wider change in the industry.

BuildForce (Pathways into Construction - service leavers)
Funding theme:

Careers

Funding topic:
Learning resources
Project lead:
Lendlease
Amount awarded:
£1,012,116
Project summary:

BuildForce - Veterans will deliver a service to the veteran community (who left military service at least a year ago) and to construction employers. The aim of the service will be to help veterans “get jobs in construction and get into training which leads to jobs in construction”. 

  • BuildForce will provide the wraparound service (finding, screening, supporting and brokering candidates into work experience and into employment)  with UCEM delivering three activities for BuildForce; developing more accessible and inclusive learning pathways to meet the needs of industry
  • Collaboration with MHS (Mental Health and Support) Training and Consultancy Limited (CITB approved trainer) will roll out the innovative Lendlease and MHS pilot of providing 1-2-1 mental health first aid support to the beneficiaries and supporting them in getting more help if required.
North Glasgow Community Skills Academy (NGCSA) - Pathways into Construction - NEETs and service leavers
Funding theme:

Careers

Funding topic:
Careers and recruitment
Project lead:
Sibbald Ltd
Amount awarded:
£1,200,060
Project summary:

This project will deliver a menu of collaborative support, employability and occupational/vocational training complemented with work experience.

Over the three years of the project, they will engage 180 beneficiaries, 90 from each of two priority groups (NEET and Service Leavers).

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