Improvement Practitioner Level 4 Apprenticeship
+ Lean & Six Sigma Green Belt (Lean6 ISO 18404:2015 Certificate)
This Improvement Practitioner apprenticeship will focus on refining your team’s Lean and Six Sigma methods, upskilling their project and change management skills and enable them to identify improvements and deliver change across your business.
With a minimum 95% of the cost of training covered by the Government, your people will work towards the Improvement Practitioner Level 4 apprenticeship, along side the Lean & Six Sigma Green Belt (Lean6 ISO18404:2015 Certificate).
What is an apprenticeship?
An apprenticeship is a blend of a full-time job with training. The apprentice will split their time 80/20. 80% of their working time will be spent carrying out their day-to-day job responsibilities. 20% of their time will be ‘off-the-job’ and spent working towards their apprenticeship qualification.
From August 1st 2022, the new minimum off the-job training requirement for a full-time apprentice is 20% of a 30 hour week (even if the apprentice works more than 30 hours per week); this equates to an average of 6 hours of off-the-job training per week.
Vital to the success of the apprenticeship, the learner has to be actively working towards the standards at least 20% of the time they are paid by you over a minimum duration of 12 months.
Who is this Improvement Practitioner apprenticeship for?
The Level 4 Improvement Practitioner apprenticeship is designed for Continuous / Business / Process Improvement Practitioners, Managers, Analysts who lead smaller projects and tackle reoccurring challenges and understand the tools and methodologies used for problem-solving.
Apprenticeship learning route benefits
- You will have weekly face to face delivery sessions (3.5 hours a week)
- Employer only has to pay up to 5% of the course cost
- Apprentices are allocated 20% of their work time to complete the apprenticeship - 10% delivery at Whyy? Change, 10% spent applying the learning in the workplace
- No additional fees, all costs are included with the apprenticeship
- Our highly skilled practitioners will deliver interactive and engaging sessions to guide learners through the course
What will you study on this Level 4 apprenticeship?
- Project and Change Management Tools
- Process Capability & Performance
- Experimentation and Optimisation
- Data Acquisition for Analysis
- Lean & Six Sigma Methodologies
- Process Mapping Analysis
- Sustainability and Control
- Process and Design FMEA
- Basic Statistics & Measures
Career Development
Average UK salary data from Glassdoor salary checker, April 2022.
Don't just take our word for it...
Maks from Sonoco spoke to us about his Level 4 Improvement Practitioner apprenticeship experience. Here’s what he had to say:
“I did the level 4 Improvement Practitioner Apprenticeship. With just knowing the techniques or tools. OK, you know the theory, but can you actually apply them. That was a barrier I had and Whyy? Change really helped me with overcoming that barrier.
The things I’ve learnt in terms of route cause analysis was the fishbone 5 Why’s extra brainstorming activities, changing the dynamics of the meetings to make sure that everyone is still engaged during the meeting to get as many inputs from different people as possible. Everyone’s really approachable. There were really, really nice and helpful where needed.
They’re doing everything they could to make sure that every single learner was feeling safe and being taken care of. This sort of course, cannot be replicated just on your own.”
Eligibility
At Whyy?, we assess every potential learner to check they’re eligible and will discuss what you want out of the apprenticeship as well as the learner. To be eligible for an apprenticeship, your people need to be:
- Aged 16 or over (no upper age limit)
- Employed
- Living in the UK or EU for the past 3 years
- Learning significant new knowledge, skills and behaviours
- Not on any other fully-funded training course
Whether that time is when they are having direct learning sessions, analysing data samples or applying their new skills in your workplace through driving improvement techniques they’ve learned with Whyy?, they require the time to develop and become accomplished change practitioners over the duration of the apprenticeship…..your business will reap the rewards from this investment of time.
Once the learning has been completed, to assess that they understand and can apply their new knowledge, skills and behaviours, they will be independently assessed through assessment methods which will test them, but will prove valuable for their careers in leading change management.
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Funding
The Improvement Practitioner Apprenticeship costs £6,000. You can get 95-100% funding available so you’ll only have to pay a minimum of 5% (£300). This includes the Lean & Six Sigma Green Belt certificate at no additional cost. To access this funding, all employers must have digital apprenticeship account.
12 – 14 months
Improvement Practitioner Apprenticeship
Price
Funding Available: £6,000
Your Price: £0-300
Certificate
ISO 18404:2015 Lean6 Green Belt
Whyy? HQ or Onsite
Unit 7B, AESSEAL New York Stadium, New York Way, Rotherham, S60 1FJ
What is Lean Six Sigma?
Lean Six Sigma is a highly successful methodology for improving any manufacturing or business process. Applying this methodology aims to improve performance by systematically removing waste and reducing variation.
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Knowledge
they’ll learn
- Doing the right things and following the rule book.
- Know how to form a team to lead the process.
- How to select the most beneficial project management tools.
- Business cases for change and project selection.
- Lean & Six Sigma principles.
- Analysing data and defining and mapping the as/is.
- How to select data to analyse and ‘crunching’ the numbers.
- How to measure the outputs.
- Prioritising & Identifying what to choose to work on.
- Get creative with experiments.
- Continuous data & active analysis, root cause and graphs.
- Prioritising & Identifying what to choose to work on.
- Controlling the process.
Skills
they’ll develop
- Delivery of effective updates, both verbal and written.
- Plan, manage and review change structures.
- Engage with sponsors to manage resistance to change.
- Use the right tools and engage with the right people.
- Scope projects and set KPI’s with effective benchmarking.
- Coaching and questioning.
- Identify the VOC.
- Use measurement systems.
- Analyse and visualise the process.
- Apply Lean tools
- Analyse data tools to make relevant insight.
- How to identify patterns and trends.
- Set clear objectives for experimentation.
- Conduct lessons learned exercises if things don’t go right first time.
Behaviours
they’ll adopt
- Drives the search for opportunities to make change, improvement
delivery.
- Creates an impactful and effective team.
- Professional manner in line with the business, is agile to meet needs of the project.
- Seeks out feedback and change is their friend, not foe.
- Confronts safety issues to keep colleagues and themselves safe.
