Consortium Employment

Learn about our apprenticeship model allowing engagement with multiple shared host employers throughout the program

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Supporting you to maximise your apprentice employment ambitions

Our consortium employment approach eliminates the need for direct apprentice employment and requirement to provide full coverage of the apprenticeship duration and skill-building process. The consortium apprentice employment approach brings together like-minded businesses wanting to upskill early careers talent in their sector. By sharing the employment and learning journey through short project-led transitions, this approach supports businesses of all sizes.

Remove Barriers to Growth – Through assigning an impartial and experienced local Flexi-Job Apprentice Agency (FJAA), we can remove the barrier of apprentice employment/levy maximisation and apprentice funding constraints.

Comply with Legal Complexities – FJAAs provide legal compliance related to apprentice employment where complex employment models are required, ensuring employers can avoid legal issues and contract pitfalls.

Current Training Providers

By partnering with a government-registered FJAA employment agency, apprentices can gain valuable experience across multiple host employers throughout their apprenticeship.

The Apprentice Employment Agency is proud to be working in partnership with some of the best training providers across the UK to offer this comprehensive apprentice employment solution.

Introducing Flexi-Job Apprenticeship Agencies

A Flexi-Job Apprenticeship Agency (FJAA) is an organisation that employs Apprentices and places them with a Host Employer to complete their Apprenticeship training. The Apprentice works for the FJAA for the duration of their Apprenticeship and the FJAA contracts, manages, and payrolls the Apprentice on behalf of Host Employers.

FJAA’s help businesses needing non-standard employment models so they can make greater use of Apprenticeships and thus removing the Apprentice employment barriers they currently have.

What does it cost?

All flexi job agencies are required to recharge apprentice gross salaries, service fees, and the cost of the apprenticeship training provision.

Employment Barriers

There are numerous structural and operational barriers that prevent employers from directly employing apprentices. These employment barriers include:

Restrictions on employee numbers e.g. headcount freeze
Not able to commit to the full apprenticeship duration needed to complete
Lack of expertise or resource to recruit apprentices
Increase apprentice participation in different businesses/SMEs
Lack of knowledge or understanding to manage the employment of apprentices

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

What is the Apprenticeship Levy?

The Apprenticeship Levy is an amount paid at a rate of 0.5% of an employer’s annual pay bill. As an employer, you have to pay the Apprenticeship Levy each month if you have an annual pay bill of more than £3 million.

What is Apprenticeship Levy transfer?

Large employers that pay the Apprenticeship Levy can choose to transfer up to 50% of their levy funds each year to other businesses, paying for their apprenticeship training and assessment. Transferring levy funds is a way of supporting other businesses by deciding which sectors, skills or local areas you’d like to fund. The choice of which businesses and apprenticeships you support with a transfer is entirely up to the employer.

What are Apprenticeship training costs?

Each apprenticeship standard delivered by a training provider has a maximum funding value attributed to it. This represents the highest amount that can be allocated through the apprenticeship digital account service.

How can smaller businesses benefit from levy transfers when using an FJAA?

As a government-registered FJAA, you can be assured that when working with us, we will source available apprenticeship levy value to cover the costs of the apprenticeship training. We work with local partners who want to support supply chain businesses in their sector and region.

What obligations does a business have when they receive transferred levy funds?

The business receiving the transfer of funds (us as the employer) is bound by the apprenticeship funding rules for how they use the transfer funds and how they employ their apprentice. You do not need to worry about additional bureaucracy; we handle the administration.

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