HSE technician apprenticeship, level 3, with the IWFM Level 3 Award · Register title: Safety, health and environment technician (ST0550)
Grow the person who keeps every site safe, compliant and consistent
The Growth and Skills Levy covers the training and assessment, and we handle the enrolment and the paperwork. Your apprentice learns fully online, applying safety, health and environment practice and facilities management to your own sites: risk registers, contractor assurance, continuity plans and performance dashboards. They might be your site manager, estates officer or facilities supervisor.
What they'll be able to do
Three milestones, ending ready for assessment
Explain how facilities and SHE support the organisation, identify and control risk, and plan for continuity and emergencies.
Engage stakeholders, and deliver services safely and sustainably with proper monitoring and inspection.
Manage contractors and suppliers safely, use performance data to drive improvement, and be ready for end point assessment.
Their learning journey
Six themes, built around your work
Purpose of FM and SHE
How facilities and safety work together, the business case, and professional ethics.
Risk, compliance and business continuity
Hazards, controls, incident causation, inspection and continuity planning.
Customers, users and stakeholders
Stakeholder mapping, communication and engagement.
Safe and sustainable service delivery
Systems, monitoring, service quality and improvement.
Contractor and supplier management
Safe systems of work and contractor assurance.
Performance and continuous improvement
Dashboards, reporting and recommendations.
Test, project and professional discussion
A 60-minute closed-book test of 40 questions, a work-based project report with presentation and questions, and a professional discussion underpinned by their portfolio. Graded fail, pass or distinction.
Every programme works the same way. They learn it, use it in your organisation, then look back at what they did and why.
Know it
Safety, health and environment law, risk, continuity, and how facilities management works.
Show it
Risk registers, contractor assurance and performance dashboards built for your own sites.
Live it
A safety culture modelled every day, and professional ethics.
Who you could put forward
Someone already with you, or someone new
A school site manager
Responsible for compliance, ready to evidence it consistently.
An estates officer in a trust
Working across several schools and needing one standard for all of them.
A facilities supervisor
The role the defunded FM Supervisor standard used to serve.
Someone you want leading compliance
A capable person you want to own safety across your estate.
You're trusting us with someone from your team. Here's how we look after them.
One trainer-coach from start to finish, who knows facilities management and gets to know your estate.
A one-to-one review every month, and a three-way review with you at the end of every theme. Nobody is guessing where they are or what's next.
Fully remote and built around the working week: live online sessions, coaching huddles and workshops, so nobody leaves site to learn. No day or block release.
What your organisation gets
Consistency across every site, and improvement you can see
Consistency across every site
Standard compliance evidence, rather than relying on one strong individual.
Contractors managed safely
Assurance reviews and safe systems of work from someone trained to run them.
Improvement you can see
Performance dashboards and recommendations your leadership can act on.
Training and assessment are funded from the Growth and Skills Levy you already pay, up to the funding band for this standard. If you don't pay the levy, there's nothing to pay for apprentices under 25, and a 5% contribution for those aged 25 and over.
We check eligibility before you commit to anything. We complete the enrolment, the funding agreement, and the records the rules require, in the format auditors expect.
You get one named account manager, from your first conversation to your last review. If something isn't working, you go to them, and we take it seriously.
Where it leads
The next step, when they're ready
Facilities manager, level 4 ›For practitioners moving into managing the estate.
The honest answers
Questions people actually ask
At least 370 hours of off-the-job training across the programme. We convert that into hours per week around their role and agree it in writing before anyone starts.
It's the route we recommend for the roles FM Supervisor used to serve, now that standard is closed to new starters, with safety recognition added.
The first intake is January 2027.
Training and assessment are funded from the Growth and Skills Levy, up to £5,000. If you don't pay the levy, there's nothing to pay for apprentices under 25, and a 5% contribution for those aged 25 and over. We'll confirm exactly what applies before you commit.
If they move to a new employer, they can carry on their apprenticeship there. Your funding commitment from the Growth and Skills Levy ends when they leave.
Let's begin
Tell us who you'd like to back.
We'll reply within one working day. You'll know whether this programme fits them, what it costs you, and how quickly they could start. No commitment. And if we're not the right fit, we'll tell you.
Together, let's go