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Apprenticeship Standards

Apprenticeship standards are employer-led, meaning that employers can specify exactly what’s required from an apprentice in each specific role.  Standards were introduced within the Government’s apprenticeship reforms and represent a shift from assessment to learning.  Apprentices have a clear learning and career path to follow, which greatly enhances further opportunities both for apprentices and their employers. 

Apprenticeship standards outline the Skills, Knowledge, and Behaviours (KSBs) required to carry out a certain job role. All apprentices must take independent assessments at the end of their training with Independent End Point Assessment Organisations (EPAO’s) to demonstrate the KSBs set out in the occupational standard.

The minimum duration for an apprenticeship standard is a year, allowing for quality, dedicated learning, and independent end-point assessment. Higher apprenticeship levels may require longer learning time.  Many apprenticeship standards don’t include mandatory qualifications, however, some levels, particularly level 3 and level 4 may require some current or previous experience.

At Straight A we offer qualifications to apprentices with the support of employers to ensure that we implement a sound structure for delivery and engagement, this enables apprentices to achieve high-quality, transferable outcomes.  Look at our standards and you’ll see how the content supports teaching and learning.

Hospitality
Food and Beverage Team Member
Level 2

This apprenticeship program has been designed for individuals carrying out a range of general and specialist roles within hospitality businesses, including bars, cafes, conference centres, restaurants and hotels.

Hospitality
Hospitality Accomodation Team Member
Level 2

This apprenticeship programme has been designed for individuals carrying out a range of general and specialist roles within hospitality businesses, including cafes, conference centres, restaurants and hotels.

Retailer
Retailer
Level 2

This apprenticeship programme has been designed for individuals who help customers buy products or services from retail organisations such as department stores, garden centres, high street chains, supermarkets and online and mail order businesses.

Facilities Management
Facilities Operative
Level 2

This apprenticeship programme has been designed for individuals who are responsible for providing facilities services support to customers and facilities management departments.

Hospitality
Senior Production Chef
Level 3

This apprenticeship programme has been designed for individuals working within a kitchen environment who are looking to develop knowledge and skills including supervising and managing teams, developing menus and recipes and ensuring the standardisation of dish provision.

Hospitality
Pastry Chef
Level 3

This occupation is found in the hospitality industry, largely in fine dining restaurants and hotels in the pastry section and in artisan patisseries. The purpose of the occupation is to plan, prepare and produce complex, refined patisserie in a variety of establishments.

Hospitality
Event Assistant
Level 3

This apprenticeship programme has been designed for individuals who are working in an events company or events department in an organisation.

Hospitality
Hospitality Supervisor
Level 3

This apprenticeship programme has been designed for individuals who are responsible for supervising staff and activities within hospitality businesses including bars, cafes, conference centres, restaurants and hotels.

Facilities Management
Facilities Management Supervisor
Level 3

This apprenticeship standard is designed for individuals who are responsible for managing the working environment for an organisation’s employees and services within industrial and commercial buildings.

Learning and Development
Learning and Development Practitioner
Level 3

This apprenticeship programme has been designed for individuals who are typically involved with identifying learning/training needs, designing/sourcing training and learning solutions, delivering and evaluating training, and working with stakeholder/business area managers.

Marketing
Multi-Channel Marketer
Level 3

As part of the marketing team, multi-channel marketers will contribute to the implementation of the marketing strategy and plans. They will be responsible for delivering day-to-day marketing activities across a multitude of platforms, channels and systems that are essential to the marketing function and activities of the company.

Marketing
Content Creator
Level 3

This occupation is found in employers across all sectors. It is a role that can be found in both creative and non-creative industries. This can be in any business creating content to engage with its audience. The broad purpose of the occupation is to develop and create written and audio-visual content that can be used across a variety of platforms and media. This may include social media, broadcast, or in print.

Learning and Development
Outdoor Activity Instructor
Level 3

This apprenticeship programme has been designed for individuals who supervise and guide children and adults in activities and
pastimes such as canoeing, sailing, climbing, surfing, cycling, hill walking, archery, bush craft, rock pooling, geology, plant identification, habitat or wildlife walks at an introductory level.

Learning and Development
Safeguarding Support Officer
Level 3

This apprenticeship programme has been designed for individuals working across the public, private, and voluntary sector to support statutory safeguarding responsibilities and demonstrate how organisations work to protect an individual’s health, wellbeing and human rights.

Human Resources
Recruiter
Level 3

This occupation is found in organisations that come from the public, private and third sectors. Typically, a recruiter works in consultancies, agencies, in-house for employers, embedded recruiters, or as an outsourced provider.

Human Resources
HR Support
Level 3

This apprenticeship programme has been designed for individuals typically either working in a medium to large organisation as part of the HR function delivering front line support to managers and employees, or are a HR Manager in a small organisation.

Hospitality
Hospitality Manager
Level 4

This apprenticeship programme has been designed for individuals working across organisations that focus on ensuring excellent customer experience. Hospitality managers work across a huge variety of organisations including bars, restaurants, cafés, conference centres, banqueting venues, hotels and contract caterers.

Leadership & Management
Associate Project Manager
Level 4

Associate project managers work in all sectors such as government, retail, food and drink, infrastructure, education, charities, research, and banking. The working environment can vary from being in an office, on site, at client, and contactor’s locations and working remotely.

Leadership & Management
Learning and Skills Mentor
Level 4

The role of the learning and skills mentor can be found in all sectors where training and development is required. For example, but not limited to, healthcare, military, manufacturing, production, business and professional, education, leisure, construction, creative, technology.

Marketing
Marketing Executive
Level 4

This apprenticeship programme has been designed for individuals working across businesses providing the insight to develop and deliver new products and services to meet ever-changing customer needs.

Learning And Development
Learning And Development Consultant Business Partner
Level 5

This apprenticeship programme has been designed for individuals who will be accountable for ensuring learning and development contribute to, and influence, improved performance in the workplace at an individual, team, and organisation level.