Learning and skills teacher apprenticeship, level 5 · Register title: Learning and skills teacher (ST0149)
Grow the experts who teach your people into confident teachers
The Growth and Skills Levy covers the training and assessment, and we handle the enrolment and the paperwork. Your apprentice already knows their subject. This gives them the teaching to match: planning, assessment, inclusion and feedback, applied to the learners they teach every week. They might be a clinical educator, a trainer, or an assessor who's ready to teach.
Apprenticeships from level 2 to level 5
Professionally, it has strengthened my confidence in teaching and delivering education in a structured and inclusive way. I have developed a better understanding of different learning styles, how to plan and structure teaching sessions effectively, and how to create a safe and supportive learning environment for students.
Paula Corrigan Orthopaedic practitioner and clinical educatorWhat they'll be able to do
Three milestones, ending ready for assessment
Plan inclusive, evidence-informed teaching, and design assessment and feedback that move learners on.
Create safe, supportive learning environments, overcome barriers to learning, and work ethically with colleagues and learners.
Use digital tools well, coach and mentor others, improve quality, and be ready for end point assessment.
Their learning journey
Six themes, built around your work
Foundations of effective teaching
Pedagogy, inclusive strategies, and learner engagement.
Curriculum and assessment design
Planning, diagnostic, formative and summative assessment, and feedback.
A supportive learning environment
Safeguarding, wellbeing, and engaging learners with complex needs.
Professional practice and collaboration
Ethics, boundaries, difficult conversations and equality.
Innovation and continuous improvement
Digital and online teaching, and professional development.
Reflection and readiness
Coaching, quality improvement, and preparing for assessment.
Observed lesson and professional discussion
A one-hour observed lesson with a 45-minute professional dialogue, and a 90-minute 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
Teaching and assessment theory, inclusion, and how adults and young people learn.
Show it
Sessions planned and taught well, observed, and improved through feedback.
Live it
Reflection, professional integrity, and care for every learner.
Who you could put forward
Someone already with you, or someone new
A clinical educator
Irene Adindu teaches healthcare support workers.
A practitioner who already teaches
Paula taught casting to doctors and medical students before she had a teaching qualification.
A practice development lead
Theresa Dony came to this from supporting student nurses.
A trainer or assessor in your organisation
Someone teaching adults who's ready for the theory behind it.
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 teaching and gets to know the learners you serve.
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.
Learning built around their timetable: a blend of on-site visits from their coach, including observed teaching, and live online sessions, coaching huddles and workshops. No day or block release.
What your organisation gets
Experts who can teach, and training that sticks
Experts who can teach
Your subject specialists, able to plan, assess and adapt for every learner.
Training that sticks
Sessions built around how people learn, not only what they're told.
A stronger education team
Theresa now contributes to trust projects and has led her department during cover.
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.
The honest answers
Questions people actually ask
At least 466 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.
We run one cohort a year, starting in September. If you have 10 or more people to put forward, we can run a bespoke cohort for your organisation.
No. The Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training is part of the programme.
Training and assessment are funded from the Growth and Skills Levy, up to £7,000. 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