Improvement Leader Apprenticeship

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Improvement Leader

Level 6

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Developing improvement strategies and providing leadership in improvement for a business.

Qualification

Improvement Leader Apprenticeship

Qualification Level

Level 6

End Point Assessment Centre

DSW

Instruction Language

English

Qualification Duration

18 months (this does not include EPA period)

Included in

Our Green Skills Pathway

Employer Funding & Incentives

Funding

As of the 18th March 2024 the government announced significant changes to apprenticeship funding, aimed at supporting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in their hiring of young apprentices. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak unveiled plans to eliminate SME co-investment payments for apprentices under the age of 22, alongside increasing the transfer limit of apprenticeship levy funds from 25% to 50%.

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Incentives

Employers could get £1,000 each for taking on an apprentice who is either:

aged 16 to 18 years old, or
aged 19 to 25 years old and has an education, health and care (EHCP) plan or has been in the care of their local authority

What you can use the payment for
The payment is different to apprenticeship levy funds, so you can spend it on anything to support your organisation’s costs. For example, on uniforms, your apprentice’s travel or their salary. You do not have to pay it back.

Included in the Green Skills Pathway…

As part of our commitment to the environment, we are proud to offer an exciting opportunity for our apprentices. With every apprenticeship, learners will receive full funding to study our level 2 sustainability and environmental awareness short course, completely free of charge! Discover more about this fantastic course by clicking here.

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Who is this course suitable for?

Improvement Leaders are responsible for developing improvement strategy, providing leadership in improvement for the business and for coaching and supporting Improvement Specialists in advanced analysis. The Improvement Leader typically reports to Board members or Heads of Department and manages (directly and/or matrix) a team of Improvement Specialists, who deploy the strategy, and lead improvement projects. They work closely with all functions of the business to support the setting and achievement of business goals, often accountable for Improvement activities within the largest-scale and highest priority programmes of work. For example, they may develop top-level Value Stream Maps to identify improvement opportunities that are then scoped into projects to be delivered by Improvement Specialists or they may design new products/processes/services. The role is typically office-based but involves working wherever their improvement activities are focussed for example they could be working on the shop floor or at customer/supplier premises.

Green job titles

Environmental improvement compliance manager
Environmental improvement manager
Business sustainability improvement consultant
Environmental improvement data analyst
Environmental improvement health and safety manager
Environmental improvement health and safety officer

Roles & Responsibilities may include:

Developing Improvement strategy and providing leadership in improvement for the business
Developing processes and resources to support improvement strategy deployment such as guidance for structured project reviews
Training, coaching and mentoring Improvement Specialists and senior stakeholders
Designing and sourcing training solutions for the business
Leading large-scale, complex Improvement activities and Sustainability (Improvement or Sustainability activities)
Managing a team of Improvement Specialists

Behaviours

These are the personal attributes and behaviours expected of all energy specialists carrying out their roles

Drive for results: Be a primary advocate for Improvement and Operational Excellence acting as a role model for others, focused on improving customer experience and delivering benefits
Team Working: Actively seeks opportunities for improving team performance and coaches others to resolve under-performance issues
Professionalism: Demonstrates personal resilience. Challenge, influence & engage seniors
Strategic Thinking: Drives future thinking for themselves and others. Actively seeks out new ideas, opportunities methods and tools. Build a knowledge and best practice sharing network
Safe Working: Recognises opportunities to improve safe working practices

Course Costs

This course is funded by the UK Government. The value of this training is:

£15,000.00

Employer 5% contribution

£1,500

End Point Assessment Cost (Paid by Kiwi)

£TBC

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Course content

OCCUPATIONAL BRIEF OF STANDARD

KNOWLEDGE

Improvement Leaders have the Knowledge and understanding of:

- Strategy development: Policy deployment principles and Hoshin Kanri Porter’s 5 forces, Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats (SWOT)/Political Economic Social Technological Legal Economic (PESTLE), Ansoff’s growth matrix, Boston Consulting Group growth share matrix, GE-McKinsey matrix
- Business benefits: Net present value, activity based costing
- Team formation & leadership: Team types and constraints, dysfunctional teams, emotional intelligence, Neuro-linguistic programming techniques, reinforcement strategies
- Self-development: Latest thinking in Continuous Improvement and Operational Excellence
- Presentation and reporting: Single page reporting – A3 thinking
- Project selection and scoping: Business performance metrics
- Measurement systems: Audit Measurement System
- Data analysis – statistical methods: Regression (multiple & binary logistic), forecasting and queuing theory
- Experimentation and optimisation: Monte Carlo and Discrete Event simulation. Balanced and unbalanced designs, General Linear Model

SKILLS

Improvement Leaders have the following Skills

Strategic deployment of continuous improvement: Contribute to the business planning cycle and lead the development of improvement strategy. Analyse current state and identify opportunities. Develop deployment plans considering key enablers. Contribute to the development of an improvement culture. Maintain engagement through effective communication
Business benefits: Identify, quantify and communicate financial and non-financial benefits
Team formation and leadership: Use appropriate tools and techniques to identify, diagnose and resolve sources of under-performance and conflict within teams
Capability Development: Design, source and evaluate learning interventions. Facilitate multi-functional workshops. Advise on selection of individuals for different levels of training
Project management: Plan and manage an improvement programme with appropriate levels of governance. Apply processes for managing a portfolio of improvement projects including reporting, escalation, audit and risk management/mitigation
Reviewing projects and coaching others: Provide guidance for structured project reviews. Conduct group coaching reviews. Identify, diagnose and resolve project performance issues
Presentation and reporting: Critique own and others’ improvement reports/presentations
Change management: Assess the effectiveness of change and identify opportunities to improve outcomes, guiding and supporting others to deliver results
Principles and methods: Clearly communicate the importance of appropriate method-selection to others, and enable the organisation to make appropriate decisions through learning and tools
Project selection and scoping: Establish guidelines for project identification and prioritisation. Assess effectiveness of identification and prioritisation processes and implement counter-measures to enhance outcomes. Engage leadership team to identify improvement opportunities
Problem definition: Promote importance of evidence-driven problem definition in everyday work
Voice of Customer(VOC): Coach others on the importance of understanding VOC. Identify ways that an organisation can improve customer insight through feedback loops to enable improvement activities to be focused appropriately
Process mapping and analysis: Apply process thinking to identify opportunities to improve business and process performance and maintain ongoing process control
Lean concepts and tools: Easily translate and communicate fundamental Lean concepts for application to a wide range of business functions. Assess the effectiveness of a Lean strategy and make recommendations for improving outcomes
Data acquisition for analysis: Assess data acquisition conducted by others in terms of tool selection and application, conclusions and recommendations
Statistics and graphical analysis: Assess and guide graphical and statistical analysis conducted by others in terms of tool selection and application, conclusions and recommendations. Communicate opportunities for robust application of basic data analysis methods and engage others to extend/embed the application of data-driven approaches. Investigate and evaluate measurement and analysis approaches which extend the capabilities of the organisation. Establish strategies for gathering and analysing life-cycle data
Process capability and performance: Make recommendations on how an organisation can drive improvement through the selection of tools and metrics for process capability analysis
Root cause analysis: Guide and coach others in planning to ensure efficiency of approach
Experimentation, optimisation and simulation: Support the building of mathematical models and exploitation of these
Identification & prioritisation: Develop a Creative Thinking strategy to support improvements
Failure Mode Avoidance: Communicate the business case, aims, methods & key tools. Identify opportunities for application within product and project life cycles including Lean Design
Data analysis – Statistical Process Control: Make recommendation on how an organisation can drive sustained improvement through the application of Statistical Process Control
Benchmarking: Develop a benchmarking strategy to support an improvement programme

TESTIMONIALS

Kiwi Education is an fantastic training provider who really does put it’s students at the heart of their delivery. Our staff have felt supported throughout their apprenticeship

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TESTIMONIALS

Our staff enrolled on courses have not only improved within their roles but with the support from Kiwi Education they have excelled and progressed from one level to a higher level. We are thrilled with the service from Kiwi Education.

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