National TOMs
At Shared Apprenticeships, we can help contractors across all five themes of the National TOMs (Themes, Outcomes and Measures) framework.
1. Jobs
- Employing young people from the local community
- Creating new jobs
- Creating new skills through apprenticeships
- Making it easy for main contractors as well as the supply chain to support an apprentice (through Shared Apprenticeships)
2. Growth
- Regional coverage across South-West England – see Our Locations
- Engaging with local schools across the region
- Helping to raise aspirations
- Engaging with organisations that deliver inspirational activities such as job shops, bootcamps, careers events, and work experience
- Advertising vacancies in the local area
- Interviewing local people (typically aged 16-21 years)
- Engaging with organisations which focus on addressing equality, diversity and inclusion in the industry – e.g., Building People
- Providing academic supervision
- to minimise any challenges with studying, whether due to academic or mental health pressures
- committed to completions – we have above average success rates for construction apprenticeships
- focused on progressing our apprentices into full-time employment and / or a higher apprenticeship
3. Social
- Providing a dedicated Mentor
- to monitor the general health and wellbeing of our apprentices
- with a Mental Health First Aider qualification to be alert to the mental health of our apprentices
- with an Enhanced DBS check and Safeguarding qualification to be alert to the welfare of our mostly teenage apprentices
- Providing a Dedicated Safeguarding Lead as part of our HR Management
- Level 3 qualified to ensure a clear escalation process if required
- Keeping our apprentices local wherever possible
- Ensuring recognised health & safety training for our apprentices
4. Environment
- Our Apprenticeships are based on apprenticeship Standards, most of which incorporate sustainability and environmental considerations
- Minimising travel pollution by:
- Keeping our apprentices local, working on construction sites as near as possible to their hometown
- Ensuring that many of our apprentices have the option to study their course on block release or in the workplace
- Funding a saver Railcard for those apprentices able / wanting to travel by train instead of driving
5. Innovation
- Providing a dedicated Mentor
- Providing a Dedicated Safeguarding Lead as part of our HR Management
- Providing academic supervision
- Keeping our apprentices local wherever possible
- to minimise travel times
- to maintain at-home support outside working hours
- to strengthen ties with the community impacted by the build