Huddersfield Business School launches new higher-level apprenticeships
Huddersfield Business School launches new higher-level apprenticeships aimed at boosting innovation and growth in local SMEs.
The launch of the Professional Manager and Senior Leader Higher Apprenticeships aim to enhance employees’ personal and professional development, as well as supporting organisations with strategic planning including identifying and implementing progress and change, talent development and succession planning and innovation.
"Huddersfield Business School is very proud to launch our new Professional Manager and Senior Leader Apprenticeship programmes. They are a perfect way to address skills gaps and increase productivity. The ability to be able to immediately implement the learning in the business creates an ideal opportunity for an individual to influence change and progress. We are currently recruiting for a May and September 2023 start for both apprenticeships."
Nic Stenberg, Director of Executive Education at Huddersfield Business School.
Who are the apprenticeships for?
The Senior Leader Higher Apprenticeship will equip aspiring or new senior leaders with the knowledge and tools to contribute to their organisation's strategy and direction. Learners will gain skills to inspire and guide a team within demanding and fast-changing contexts. At the end of the programme, learners will also be awarded a Postgraduate Diploma in Management.
The Professional Manager Apprenticeship will support managers with responsibility for projects or teams, to gain a broad range of practical knowledge and skills. Learners will also be awarded a Certificate of Higher Education Professional at the end of the programme.
How much do they cost?
These programmes are funded by the Apprenticeship Levy.
What is the time commitment?
A minimum of 6 hours per week - Learners are required to attend timetabled workshops at Huddersfield Business School, as well as take part in remote and work-based learning within their organisation. They will be supported and guided to identify opportunities for work-based learning in the weeks they are not attending workshops.
Employers are required to provide a workplace mentor to oversee and support the learner’s development during the course, as well as being accommodating to the learner’s individual study needs.
What are the benefits?
Charted Management Institute (CMI) accreditation:
Both programmes are CMI accredited. Upon completion, learners can register as full members with the CMI and those with 3 years of managerial experience can apply for Chartered Manager status.
Opportunity for career progression and promotion:
Organisations see an increase in staff retention with learners who have undertaken an apprenticeship as employees feel valued as their employer has invested in their future. As a result, you see an increase in learners progressing and securing higher-level roles within the organisation upon completion of their apprenticeship.
Learners who have undertaken our Senior Leadership Apprenticeship have gone on to progress within their organisation upon completion of the programme:
- A learner who worked within the NHS as a Programme Support Manager progressed to the role of Assistant Director.
- Another learner who worked within the West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service as a Transport Logistics Manager progressed to the role of Head of Transport and Logistics, and:
- A learner who worked at Terberg DTS (UK) Ltd as a Rental Supervisor progressed to the role of Rental and Sales Operations Manager.
Increased knowledge and confidence:
Apprenticeships allow individuals who undertake the programme to have a greater understanding of how their organisation operates increasing their confidence to be influential and impactful.
"I’ve learnt so much about myself. I now think wider and bigger, and I understand how the pieces fit together for the organisation from a political and economic point of view. I also understand our external markets and competition in much more detail than I did before undertaking the apprenticeship."
“I am now able to provide a different perspective on things and make suggestions as I see the bigger picture. I am more able to influence policies and procedures in the organisation and be more confident in my viewpoint because I understand all those pieces of the puzzle. I feel more confident to influence and say, why don’t we do this? and ask those questions and be more curious.”
Elaine Rosendahl-Shaw, Team Manager for Children’s Social Care at Calderdale Council.
Productivity enhancement:
Apprenticeships help organisations to innovate and transform cultures around learning and development.
“By offering development courses such as apprenticeships, and also taking the time out to support learners, what we get is people who become committed to the organisation because they feel that the organisation cares about them. We then find that those individuals develop, and we end up with employees that don't just go off and do their job, they're asking about what they're doing, how they're doing it, they become inquisitive, and they look to develop the organisation, which means we end up with more enablers.”
David Chambers, Service Manager for Children’s Social Care at Calderdale Council
If you’d like to find out more about our apprenticeship programmes or would speak to the apprenticeship team, please contact hbsenterprise@hud.ac.uk
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