We Fill Talent Gaps in Professional Roles via Apprenticeships and Tailored L&D Programmes
We can recruit and professionally train a continuous stream of high-class talent into your organisation – FREE! Contact us to Learn HowWe have co-created, with industry, highly customised professional apprenticeships designed to meet specific job role requirements.
Delivered whilst your employees continue in their roles, over a period of 12-36 months, these government funded programmes can lead to master’s degree equivalent qualifications.
Why Hire an Apprentice?
You may think of typical apprenticeships in accountancy or plumbing when you think of ‘apprenticeships’, but our Professional Apprenticeships are designed for knowledge workers such as software engineers, scientists and business leaders and analysts.
Apprenticeships can also be used to provide funded Continuous Professional Development (CPD) to existing employees.
We can hire, train and coach individuals for junior and expert roles in several sectors over 12 – 36 month part time programmes.
Often at NO COST TO THE EMPLOYER
The S&A Academy business uses the full capabilities of other S&A Group companies to combine our expertise in Consulting, Resourcing and Training to address your talent needs.
Our training solutions can up-skill your junior talent as well as deliver expert training to experienced employees. Our professional apprenticeship programmes combine recruitment and training solutions to deliver you a constant supply of new, skilled and engaged employees.
Due to our subsidised UK Government status, our recruitment and FT Professional Apprenticeship Programmes, whether standard or industry aligned, can come at NO COST to you.
What can we offer you?
Customised Apprenticeship for Business
Our professional apprenticeships are already significantly enhanced above normal providers. We’ve worked in collaboration with industry leaders to ensure they are relevant for the roles. We can also work with your business to customise our apprenticeships with extra modules, qualifications, certifications or masterclasses to ensure they meet your needs.
Ready to Go Apprentice Candidates
Utilising our sister company, S&A Resourcing Solutions, we run monthly selection programmes all over the UK to source and screen candidates for all our different apprenticeships. These candidates are ready to join your business immediately. Motivated, capable, keen, and loyal, we’ve already screened for aptitude and attitude.
Bespoke Training & Certification Programmes
The S&A Academy develops global training and certification programmes for clients in technology and science. Either for workforce training, employee re/up-skilling or to drive global product or service adoption for your technology, software, science or laboratory products and technologies.
Highlights for Employers
Industry Qualifications & Certifications
We deliver highly valued qualifications and certifications from Qfqual L2-L7 apprenticeships to ISTQB 4.0 in software testing, BCS Diplomas in Business Analysis and recognised science and laboratory qualifications such as RSciTech.
Free Recruitment for Apprentices
Benefit from our sister comapany’s expertise and networks in technology, science and business recruitment. Any company hiring apprentices get FREE S&A Resourcing Solutions support.
Constant Stream of Junior Professionals
Professional apprenticeship programmes integrated with your hiring and training strategies to provide you with a steady in-flow of fresh, qualified and motivated workers at all career and life stages
Free Training for Existing Employees
We can fully fund professional apprenticeship training programmes for your current employees as well as new recruits. Staff can upskill or completely change careers. Don’t make staff redundant! Retrain them!
Increase Employee Engagement and Retention
You can hire graduates and rotate them around different teams so they may find a place that suits them, or you can hire an apprentice motivated to do the job they’re training for, and loyal to the company that invested in them.
Insource your Outsourced Activities
If you’re tired of paying 3rd party consultant rates for on/offshore resources why not invest in your own people and build a strategy to train your own. We can design a programme to replace many common outsourced teams such as SW testing or laboratory processing.
Highlights for Employers
Industry Qualifications & Certifications
We deliver highly valued qualifications and certifications from Qfqual L2-L7 apprenticeships to ISTQB 4.0 in software testing, BCS Diplomas in Business Analysis and recognised science and laboratory qualifications such as RSciTech.
Free Recruitment for Apprentices
Benefit from our sister comapany’s expertise and networks in technology, science and business recruitment. Any company hiring apprentices get FREE S&A Resourcing Solutions support.
Constant Stream of Junior Professionals
Professional apprenticeship programmes integrated with your hiring and training strategies to provide you with a steady in-flow of fresh, qualified and motivated workers at all career and life stages
Funded Training for Existing Employees
We can fully fund professional apprenticeship training programmes for your current employees as well as new recruits. Staff can upskill or completely change careers. Don’t make staff redundant! Retrain them!
Increase Employee Engagement and Retention
You can hire graduates and rotate them around different teams so they may find a place that suits them, or you can hire an apprentice motivated to do the job they’re training for, and loyal to the company that invested in them.
Insource your Outsourced Activities
If you’re tired of paying third party consultant rates for on/offshore resources why not invest in your own people and build a strategy to train your own. We can design a programme to replace many common outsourced teams such as SW testing or laboratory processing.
Improve your EmployeeProductivity||Happiness||Retention Rates||Engagement||Career Prospects||Organisational Loyalty||Glassdoor Scoreswith purposeful Learning & Development
Enhanced Apprenticeship Co-Design
As an Ofsted regulated business we have minimum standards to achieve. But for every programme we deliver we have redefined quality by working with industry leaders to co-design new curriculum’s bursting with job-ready, industry relevant knowledge and certifications.
Specialist Recruitment & Selection
We leverage our sister company, S&A Resourcing Solutions, an expert recruitment business in tech, science and business change to assists us in finding, selecting and hiring new apprentices, your employees, often at no cost to you.
Expert Course Delivery
We’ve designed a better course and selected brilliant people. Now we deliver our training with the perfect blend of academic qualified teaching, industry experienced practitioners and real-world working project experience.
Industry Relevant, Job-Role Specific
Our Apprenticeships are Designed for Modern Professionals
We have rebuilt our apprenticeships from the ground up, enhancing them with countless value-added modules, projects and real world experience. Both our bootcamp, where we take all apprentices full time for an upfront 10-12 weeks intensive learning experience, or our more traditional weekly or monthly day release programmes, are designed so our apprentices are job-ready fast.
Try our “Enhanced” Professional Apprenticeships
You get access to £10K’s of included professional training services with our professional apprenticeship programme which runs courses over 18-months, but we also run monthly recruiting and selection campaigns across the UK to maintain a steady supply of qualified applicants.
Using funds from the UK Government’s levy-funded programmes, let S&A Academy screen and prepare prospective candidates for you without charge. That person may well go on to become your next stand-out employee.
Complimentary Recruitment Services
Businesses benefit from the specialist recruitment firm we have within the Group, ‘S&A Resourcing Solutions (“RS”). RS will support the recruitment of any new employees you require, which are placed onto apprenticeship programmes within three months of starting their new role.
Combining these services delivers a constant supply of new junior, trained and motivated, talent to your company.
Find training to suit your requirements
Data Analysis using R
Leadership & Motivation Skills: Short Course
Inclusive Leadership: Short Course
Sales Executive L4 Apprenticeship
Senior Leader L7 Apprenticeship
Operations/Departmental Management L5 Apprenticeship
Developing Resilience: Short Course
Improving Team Performance: Short Course
Coaching Skills for Managers: Short Course
Conflict Management: Short Course
Creating a High Performing Team(s): Short Course
Effective Mentoring Skills: Short Course
Microbiology for Science Technicians Level 3
Business Administrator Apprenticeship
Data Technician Level 3 Apprenticeship
Science Manufacturing Technician Apprenticeship
Technician Scientist L5 Apprenticeship
Laboratory Technician L3 Apprenticeship
Foundational Software Development F4
Business Administrator Apprenticeship
Learn Software Engineering With The Best UK Coding Bootcamp
Data Technician Level 3 Apprenticeship
Data Analysis using R
Information Communications Technician L3 Apprenticeship
Business Analyst L4 Apprenticeship
Software Tester L4 Apprenticeship
Software Developer L4 Apprenticeship
Information Communications Technician L3 Apprenticeship
Team Leader/Supervisor L3 Apprenticeship
Laboratory Technician L3 Apprenticeship
We built The S&A Academy after becoming disillusioned with current apprenticeship training providers.
As a technology and business consulting group, we need a constant supply of new talent who will stay, learn, grow, and eventually deliver bigger and bigger outcomes for our global customers.
However, our view of existing training providers left something to be desired. With many just delivering bland programmes from old texts with almost no modern context or industry relevance. We didn’t like it, so, in a ‘Remington’ moment, we decided to build our own company.
We combined all our own expertise and experience as well as detailed industry feedback to completely re-engineer the apprenticeship training approach. Creating a new company, gaining the relevant accreditation and government authority to deliver Ofsted regulated and government funded training and education in the UK.
Targeting three distinct markets, we launched our new programmes in 2022 to huge applause.
Our professional apprentices are statistically proven to be more loyal, stay longer, be better engaged and keener to learn and develop than broadly educated junior talent.
Any UK business can now place existing, or new, employees onto our professional apprentices programmes at, almost always, no cost to the business. Our programmes are regulated and funded via the UK government.