Workforce & Skills

Making sure that our adult skills provision directly meets the needs of local employers means we can help equip the Tees Valley workforce with the right skills, qualifications and tools needed to help businesses meet their goals.

We work closely with Tees Valley employers to continually develop this provision, as well as identifying and supporting transferable skill routeways and specialist skills provision.

If you want to help shape our adult skills provision, please speak to us by e-mailing [email protected].

Training and investing in apprentices can bring a wide range of business benefits. Whether that is through filling skills gaps, bringing fresh insights and ideas, or upskilling and revitalising the workforce to make sure your business is ready for the future.

The Apprenticeship Support Grant is designed to help employers who are committed to creating a new apprenticeship, or progressing their existing apprentice onto a higher level of apprenticeship.

Do you want to improve the numeracy skills of your employees? Through Multiply you can access bespoke courses which will be tailored to the needs of your company. Support your employees to upskill, improve their productivity or progress onto a further qualification.

Skills Bootcamps are flexible training courses for adults aged 19 and over. They last up to 16 weeks and offer participants a job interview on completion.

You can use this scheme to hire new staff or upskill existing staff who may need to update or formalise their skills or learn new specialist skills ​to develop in their role or take on a new one.

Employers who would like to access courses for existing staff are required to contribute to the cost of learning (10% SME and 30% for a large employer). The cost varies for each Skills Bootcamp and can be discussed with the individual training Provider.

Skills Bootcamps are funded by the Department for Education, as part of the Government’s Lifetime Skills Guarantee, and provided locally through the Tees Valley Combined Authority.

We work with all primary to post-16 education establishments to help them implement high-quality careers guidance. Promoting key sectors, job opportunities and pathways.

We need local businesses to help shape this activity and directly engage with young people to let them know first-hand about the incredible career opportunities open to them.

Looking for your next recruit? You can now advertise your current vacancies free of charge on Tees Valley Jobs.

An electric motorbike or bicycle can be hired from the scheme from £21 a week to support eligible Tees Valley residents who are unable to access employment or training due to living in remote areas which are currently not well serviced by public transport links or who work outside of normal working hours.

The scheme is designed to provide an innovative way of overcoming transport barriers by hiring an electric motorbike or electric bicycle to working age people in the Tees Valley for up to a six-month period, until a longer-term transport solution can be found.