Paragon Skills Employer Pulse November 22 - Apprenticeship News
Welcome to the November ‘Employer Pulse’ from Paragon Skills, your monthly newsletter containing the latest news and updates from the apprenticeship sector, helping you to put training at the heart of your business.
We are over the moon to share the fantastic news that on Friday, Paragon Skills won an award at the Care Sector Supplier Awards for Recruitment, Retention and Training. This is testament to the quality of the apprenticeships and learner experience
We also share information on the importance of training your leadership team
Paragon Skills was delighted to attend the award ceremony on Friday 25 November at the Royal Garden Hotel in London alongside some of the very best suppliers to the care sector. We were delighted to have been recognised as a finalist in the Recruitment, Retention and Training Award category and even more so to be announced as the winner.
The Care Sector Supplier Awards celebrate the very best service and supplier companies who look after their customers in the care sector through diligence, innovation, great customer service and proven business performance.
A well-trained manager can have a great impact on your business, they can impact engagement, retention, motivation, and productivity through the employees they manage. It is so important to work with leaders and managers to develop their skills and work with their ability and experience within their job role, so they are best placed to get results from their team. What sometimes can be seen as underperformance by an individual manager, could be a lack of training and coaching to develop their managerial skills. A great way for managers to improve their skill set, inspire their teams and achieve excellent business results is through leadership and management training
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The Treasury has announced the next increase in the minimum wage for apprentices will be April 2023, with the rate going up from ￡4.81 to ￡5.28 an hour. The 47p increase equates to a 9.7 per cent rise, and is in line with a recommendation from the Low Pay Commission.
An increase in the wage is a positive step forward for the industry; helping to ensure potential apprentices are kept interested and drawn to the scheme, and it may help more young people consider apprenticeships after finishing school.
Paragon Skills is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare
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Suppliers must not use any form of involuntary labour or child labour, must provide a safe workplace, and offer fair rewards and recognition. Contractual arrangements ensure that our suppliers share our commitments to meeting these requirements; where they fail to comply with our terms, they will be required to take remedial steps, or agreements may be terminated.
Having spent over ￡189K of its levy funds since April 2022 to invest in its own people and apprenticeship programme, Aster worked with training provider, Paragon Skills, to identify a business who would benefit from funds for apprenticeship training. This led to them gifting the money to Nightingale Retirement Care to help finance the training of 12 Level 2 Adult Care apprentices.
The funding will not only cover training costs but will also provide career opportunities in a much-needed and understaffed industry – and enable Nightingale to upskill its workforce.
eQuoo is a new adventure game-based app that increases your mental and emotional health through the teaching of psychological skills, clinically proven to reduce anxiety and depression in its users, based on real-time research. Through gamification, the app builds resilience, reduces anxiety, improves interpersonal relationship skills, and promotes personal growth. The?choose-your-own-adventure game style keeps its?players engaged as they work through the skills to build their resilience and coping mechanisms to aid in personal growth and emotional and mental health.
Our Learner and Employer of the Month Awards celebrate the fantastic work our Apprentices do towards their learning and development and our employer partners’ incredible efforts toward their employees’ Apprenticeship journeys.
The awards are nominated and voted on by our Paragon Skills colleagues. The winners for October are:
Learner of the Month – Chloe Waine - Croft House Nursery
Employer of the Month – Within Reach Support Services
You can read more about what they have to say about receiving this recognition on our website
We hope you’ve found the employer pulse newsletter useful. Please email us at?[email protected]?to let us know if there is anything you would like covered in future newsletters.