Skills Boot Camps
Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership
Skills Bootcamps – part of the Government’s Lifetime Skills Guarantee, helping everyone gain skills for life.
Skills Bootcamps provide learners with technical skills that employers need. They are flexible courses of up to 16 weeks giving people the opportunity to gain sector-specific skills and fast-track to an interview with a local employer or gain new skills in an existing job. They are free to learners and can be online, face-to-face, or a mixture of both depending on the subject.
Learners who are employed, self-employed or unemployed can attend a Skills Bootcamp to gain skills for a new job or contract. An employer can also send a member of staff onto a Skills Bootcamp to gain new skills to fill gaps within the business. The employer is asked to make a contribution of 10% towards the cost (SME) or 30% (large business) if they send their own staff. Costs vary depending on type of Skills Bootcamp.
Skills Bootcamps are fairly new. There may already be Skills Bootcamps that learners can access online from the national Skills Bootcamps that have been developed and links to those will be provided here shortly. Working in partnership with Lincolnshire County Council, the LEP has secured funding to lead the development of Skills Bootcamps locally.
Locally led Skills Bootcamps 2023
Skills Bootcamps in Food and Drink Manufacturing Excellence Level 4 – University of Lincoln, Holbeach. Several Skills Bootcamps running between now and end of March. Learners are likely to be sent by their employer. Contact Sharon Green shgreen@lincoln.ac.uk
Skills Bootcamps in Food and Drink Safety and Compliance Level 4 – University of Lincoln, Holbeach. Learners are likely to be sent by their employer. Contact Sharon Green shgreen@lincoln.ac.uk
Skills Bootcamps in Clinical Care Level 3 – Medex Group. Several Skills Bootcamps are running between now and end of March, some in partnership with Lincolnshire Care Association (LINCA). Learners are likely to be sent by their employer for theoretical and practical training in topics such as stoma care, wound management, venepuncture & cannulation. Training can take place at employer premises. Contact Rachael Brownrigg r.brownrigg@medexgroup.co.uk
Skills Bootcamps in Professional Cookery Level 3 – First College Lincs. Opportunity for someone out of work or seeking a new job. Likely to have worked previously in a kitchen or have a Level 2 in cookery and wants to gain new skills or consider becoming a chef. Training will take place in Skegness. Recruiting now for 8th March start. Attendance one day per week for 10 weeks from 9.30 – 4pm, with break over Easter. Contact Peggy Middleton peggy.middleton@firstcollegelincs.co.uk
Skills Bootcamps in Shipping and Maritime Level 3 – Modal Training Ltd, Immingham. 10-day Skills Bootcamp providing the sector skills needed by local ship agents, port operators, freight forwarders, insurance providers and more. Contact Hugh Callaway callawayh@tecpartnership.ac.uk
Skills Bootcamps in Transport Management Level 3 – Modal Training Ltd, Immingham. Start a career in road haulage and logistics. A 10-day Skills Bootcamp to help you get a job as a transport planner or co-ordinator. Contact Hugh Callaway callawayh@tecpartnership.ac.uk
Grantham College are also delivering several Skills Bootcamps through the nationally funded programme in digital subjects (e.g. website development; coding; digital marketing) and more can we found on their website Skills Bootcamps – Grantham College
More Skills Bootcamps will be added to this list as they are developed.
If you are an employer or sector representative based in Greater Lincolnshire and want to work with a college or provider to develop a Skills Bootcamp (to help shape a training course that meets the needs of your sector) or offer guaranteed interviews, get in touch with the team greaterlincslep@lincolnshire.gov.uk
