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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!
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We 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.

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(1) Better, Modern, Fit-for-job

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.

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(2) - Right Attitude, Right Aptitude

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.

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(3) Industry Experience, Practitioners

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.

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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.

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Industry Built Professional Apprenticeships

In partnership with leading industry clients who hire technology, science and business related roles, we have designed and built several 15-18 month, 'role specific',apprenticehsip training courses for businesses ready to use the apprenticeship levy funding taxes that have likely already been paid. Apprentices will enter your company with relevant, modern skills that will enable them to make an impact from day one.

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.

Darren Coomer

Group CEO, The S&A Transform Group