What is Train to Gain?

Train to Gain is a new service designed to help businesses get the training they need to succeed. It can help businesses improve their productivity and competitiveness by ensuring that staff have the right skills to do the best job. If your business is to be successful you need to compete, and to compete you need to train your employees.

Getting the right skills advice is essential to choosing the best and most appropriate training.

Train to Gain helps you to do this by using experienced Skills Brokers who can:

• Offer free impartial and independent advice to businesses
• Match any training needs identified with training providers
  
• Ensure that training is delivered to meet business needs

Step 1: Identify the skills your business needs

Your Train to Gain Skills Broker works with you to carry out a free review and analysis of your business needs to assess what skills your business needs now, and what it might need in the future, based on a clear understanding of your business goals.

Step 2: Pinpoint the right training

Your Skills Broker makes training recommendations based on their skills analysis. These will help you:

• Pinpoint the type of training that best suits your needs
• Select the right Training Providers (all Train to Gain Training Providers meet national quality standards)
• Choose how and when the training is delivered
• Determine which qualifications your employees will benefit most from

Together with your Skills Broker and the Training Provider you select, you can agree a training package.

Step 4: Find available funding

Your Skills Broker can recommend the best ways of funding your training, explaining all the funding options available to you. Train to Gain provides some funding itself.

Step 5: Review the progress you’re making

Your Skills Broker provides continual support and reviews of how your training is progressing.

Train to Gain courses available from Ridgemond Training

OSAT – On Site Assessment and Training for the construction industry. This allows experienced workers to gain nationally recognised qualifications (NVQ level
2), which in conjunction with a successfully completed Health and Safety test can be used to apply for a CSCS card, required on most building sites. Health and
Safety tests are available at our Stevenage centre.

Customer Service NVQ Level 2 – An NVQ in Customer Service will demonstrate to the organisation and its employees that there is a commitment to consistently delivering good customer service and a desire to develop and improve the service that is provided.

Business Administration NVQ Level 2 – This is aimed at staff working in administration across all occupations and sectors of employment. The employer
can be reassured that individuals will be trained within the culture and ethos of the company whilst gaining a nationally recognised qualification.

ITQ NVQ Level 2 - The aim of the course is to enable students to gain specialist knowledge of IT applications.

For information on how the Train to Gain can benefit your business you can visit the Train to Gain website at: www.traintogain.gov.uk

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